Notes

Notes from selected conferences or lectures in reverse chronological order. Warning: some of these are quite incomplete and contain errors/confusions. I’m not always following!

Young Geometric Group Theory

(St-Jacut-de-la-Mer, February 2020)

Cantat, Serge - Groups of polynomial transformations

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

Erschler, Anna - Growth and amenability of groups

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

Note: More notes on the conference website.

Low-dimensional actions of 3-manifold groups

(University of Burgundy, Dijon, November 2019)

Baik, Harry - Flows and foliations in 3-manifolds and laminar groups

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

Boyer, Steve - The orderability 3-manifold groups and topology

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

Guilloux, Antonin - An introduction to arithmetic lattices of PSL(2,C)

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

Louisa, Paoluzzi - An introduction to (hyperbolic) 3-manifolds and their fundamental groups

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

Note: Link to conference website

Aspects of Geometric Group Theory

(IHES, Paris, July 2019)

Benoist, Yves - Arithmeticity of Discrete Groups

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

Bux, Kai-Uwe - Thompson Groups

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

Charney, Ruth - Artin Groups

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

Dahmani, François - Hyperbolicity and Generalizations

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

• Lecture 4

Erschler, Anna - Growth and Isoperimetric Inequalities in Groups

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

Mann, Kathryn - Diffeomorphisms of the Circle

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

Minsky, Yair - Mapping Class Group and Curve Complex

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

Vogtmann, Karen - Outer Automorphisms of Free Groups

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

• Lecture 4

• Lecture 5

Walsh, Genevieve - Boundaries of Hyperbolic and Relatively Hyperbolic Groups

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

Wienhard, Anna - Hyperbolic Structures on Surface

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

Wise, Daniel T. - CAT(0) Cube Complexes

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

• Lecture 4

• Lecture 5

• Lecture 6

Note: Lecture recordings and exercises available on the conference website.

Simons Semester

(IMPAN, Warsaw, May 2019)

Osin, Denis - Acylindrically hyperbolic groups

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

Note: More notes from the semester can be found here on the conference website.

Small Cancellation Theory

(Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, January 2019)

Course by Dominik Gruber

• Day 1

• Day 2

• Day 3

• Day 4

• Day 5

Note: Gruber’s website.

Groups and Geometries

(CIRM, Marseille, Jan 2019)

Coulon, Rémi - Groups as Geometric objects

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

• Lecture 4

• Lecture 5

Kar, Aditi - Geometry of non positive curvature

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

• Lecture 4

Nir, Lazarovich - CAT(0) cube complexes

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

• Lecture 4

Marquis, Ludovic - Hyperbolic Geometry

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

• Lecture 4

• Lecture 5

Note: Link to conference website.

Logic and Algorithms in Group Theory

(HIM, Bonn, September 2018)

Chiodo, Maurice - Undecidability in Groups

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

Holt, Derek - Algorithms for finitely-presented groups

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

Thom, Andreas - Stability and invariant random subgroups

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

Note: Recorded talks and additional notes can be found on the conference website.

Computational Group Theory

(University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, February 2018)

GAP course by Urban Jezernik and Primož Moravec

• Intro Lecture

• Polycyclic Groups 1

• Finitely presented Groups 1

• Polycyclic Groups 2

• Finitely Presented Groups 2

• Polycyclic Groups 3

• Finitely Presented Groups 3

• Polycyclic Groups 4

• Self-Similar Groups

• Polycyclic Groups 5

Note: GAP demos and exercises sheet can be found on the conference website.

Adventures in C-star Algebra

(McGill University, Montreal, Summer 2016)

Course by Jane Panangaden

• Lecture Notes