Groups in Madrid

November 28-29, 2019

Invited speakers

• Collin Bleak

• Tara Brendle

• Martin Bridson

• Pep Burillo

• Yves de Cornulier

• Gili Golan

• Yuri Neretin

Description

This is the fourth edition of Groups in Madrid, a 2-day workshop devoted to recent developments in group theory. There is no registration fee to participate. Unfortunately, we won't be able to provide any financial support or accommodation. Please, do not hesitate to contact with one of the organizers in case you have any questions.

We plan to have a conference dinner on Friday November 29 with a reduced price for junior participants.

Here you have links to the previous editions: 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Registration

Schedule

The following is a preliminary schedule. Talks will be in Aula Naranja, except from the colloquium that will be in Aula Azul. Here you can find the abstracts.

Thursday, November 28

• 14:30 Registration

• 15:00 Gili Golan
  Title: Divergence functions of Thompsons groups

• 16:00 Coffee break

• 16:30 Collin Bleak
  Title: On maximal subgroups of R. Thompson's group V.

• 17:30 Pep Burillo
  Title: An irrational-slope Thompson's group

Friday, November 29

• 10:30 Yves Cornulier
  Title: Commensurating actions, partial actions and applications to piecewise groups

• 11:30 Coffee Break
  

• 12:00 Colloquium UAM-ICMAT: Martin Bridson
  Title:Finite shadows of infinite groups

• 13:00 Lunch

• 15:00 Yuri Neretin
  Title: Binfinite symmetric groups and cobordisms of triangulated surfaces

• 16:00 Coffee break

• 16:30 Tara Brendle
  Title: The Steinberg module and level structures for surfaces with marked points

• 20:30 Conference Dinner: Bar la Gloria C/ Noviciado 2
  Closest metro stops L2 Noviciado, or L3, L10 Plaza España

Venue

The workshop will be held at the ICMAT (Institute for the Mathematical Sciences), a joint research institute of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the universities UAM, UCM, UC3M.

The ICMAT is located in the Campus Cantoblanco of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), 15 km North of downtown Madrid. The campus is connected by public transport to downtown Madrid. See here more information about to how to arrive.

Organizing Committee: Yago Antolín, Javier Aramayona, Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain and Carolina Vallejo.