International Conference on Discrete Groups, Geometry and Arithmetic (2021)

A virtual event in honour of M. S. Raghunathan's 80th birthday

Jointly organised by

National Centre for Mathematics, India

(A joint centre of IIT Bombay and TIFR, Mumbai)

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai

NOTE:

If you are a student, and would like to attend the conference, there is a separate registration form which you need to fill up here: https://www.atmschools.org/school/2021/CONF/dgg
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For more details please visit the following link.https://sites.google.com/view/msr80

Dates:

Monday, August 9, 2021 - 12:15 to Wednesday, August 11, 2021 - 12:15

Venue:

virtual event

Venue Address:

A virtual event in honour of M. S. Raghunathan's 80th birthday

Venue State:

Online mode

Venue City:

online mode

Syllabus:

Confirmed speakers:

Emmanuel Breuillard (University of Cambridge, UK)
Kai-Uwe Bux (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
V. Chernousov (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
J.-L. Colliot-Thelene (Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France)
David Fisher (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
T. Gelander (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
Bill Goldman (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA)
Amir Mohammadi (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
Shahar Mozes (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
Hee Oh (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)
Pedro Ontaneda (Binghamton University, New York, USA)
Raman Parimala (Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)
M. M. Radhika (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
Igor Rapinchuk (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA)
Nimish Shah (Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
Pavel Zalesski (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil)
Umberto Zannier (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)

Scientific Committee:

S. G. Dani (CEBS, Mumbai) [Convener]
Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
Gregory Margulis (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
Raman Parimala (Emory University, Atlanta, GA)
C. S. Rajan (TIFR, Mumbai)
Andrei Rapinchuk (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA)
T. N. Venkataramana (TIFR, Mumbai)

Organizing Committee:

S. G. Dani (CEBS, Mumbai) [Convener]
Anish Ghosh (TIFR, Mumbai)
Sudhir Ghorpade (IIT Bombay, Mumbai)
Neela Nataraj (IIT Bombay, Mumbai)
Sandip Singh (IIT Bombay, Mumbai)
B. Sury (ISI, Bengaluru)
Jugal K. Verma (IIT Bombay, Mumbai)

Technical Committee:

Jugal K. Verma (IIT Bombay, Mumbai) [Convener]
Soumya Dey (IMSc, Chennai) [Co-convener]
Kriti Goel (IIT Gandhinagar) [Co-convener]
Dibyendu Biswas (IIT Bombay, Mumbai)
Saipriya Dubey (IIT Bombay, Mumbai)
Rahul Singh Karki (IIT Bombay, Mumbai)
Chayan Karmakar (IIT Bombay, Mumbai)
Dibyendu Mondal (IIT Bombay, Mumbai)
Arghya Pramanik (IIT Bombay, Mumbai)
Shashank Vikram Singh (IIT Bombay, Mumbai)

Time Table:

Date	16:00-16:30	16:40-17:10	17:20-17:50	18:30-19:00	19:10-19:40	19:50-20:20
Aug 09	Inauguration	Mozes	Gelander	Zaleski	Rapinchuk	Chernousov
Aug 10	Oh	Radhika	Bux	Parimala	Ontaneda	Fisher
Aug 11	Colliot-Thélène	Zannier	Breuillard	Goldman	Shah	Mohammadi

Note: The timings are indicated in Indian Standard Time, which is 5 and half hours ahead of the Greenwich Mean Time.

Titles:

Shahar Mozes; Surface subgroups in uniform lattices of some semisimple Lie groups.
Tsachik Gelander; Infinite volume and infinite injectivity radius.
Pavel Zalesski; The congruence subgroup problem: rank one case.
Igor Rapinchuk; Algebraic groups with good reduction.
Vladimir Chernousov; On conjugacy of Cartan subalgebras in extended affine Lie algebras and classification of torsors over Laurent polynomial rings.
Hee Oh; Unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces of infinite volume.
M.M. Radhika; The Congruence Subgroup Problem for groups of inner type A_n.
Kai-Uwe Bux; An alternative construction for the bordification of outer space.
Bill Goldman; Dynamics and the classification of geometries on surfaces.
Pedro Ontaneda; Inrtinsic rank in CAT(0) Spaces.
David M. Fisher; Arithmeticity, superrigidity and totally geodesic manifolds.
Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène; On the local-global principle for reductive groups over semi-global fields.
Umberto Zannier; Bounded generation in anisotropic linear groups.
Emmanuel Breuillard; Approximate lattices and quasi-crystals.
Raman Parimala; Hasse principle for simply connected groups.
Nimish Shah; Sharp conditions for equidistribution of translates of a subspace of a horosphere by a diagonal flow in the space of unimodular lattices.
Amir Mohammadi; Effective results in homogeneous dynamics.

Selected Applicants:

To Be Announced

How to Reach:

Online Mode

School Short Name:

dgga

Last Date Application:

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

School Type:

CONF