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Schedule for: 19w5040 - Discrete Subgroups of Lie Groups

Beginning on Sunday, December 8 and ending Friday December 13, 2019

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).

Sunday, December 8
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
Monday, December 9
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:50 Jeffrey Danciger: Affine actions with Hitchin linear part (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 10:55 Giuseppe Martone: Sequences of Hitchin representations of Tree-Type (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:25 Joan Porti: Twisted Alexander polynomials and hyperbolic volume for three-manifolds (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 14:00 Guided Tour of The Banff Centre (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
14:00 - 14:50 Sara Maloni: The geometry of quasi-Hitchin symplectic Anosov representations (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
16:00 - 16:25 Tengren Zhang: Regularity of limit curves of Anosov representations (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 16:55 Konstantinos Tsouvalas: Characterizing Benoist representations by limit maps (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
19:30 - 21:00 Problem Session (TCPL 201)
Tuesday, December 10
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:50 Andrei Rapinchuk: Eigenvalue rigidity for Zariski-dense subgroups (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 10:55 Anna Felikson: Coxeter groups, quiver mutations and hyperbolic manifolds (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:25 Suhyoung Choi: Closed affine manifolds with partially hyperbolic linear holonomy (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
11:30 - 11:50 Group Photo (TCPL Foyer)
14:00 - 14:50 Chen Meiri: First order rigidity of higher-rank arithmetic groups (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:20 Igor Rapinchuk: Abstract homomorphisms of algebraic groups and applications (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, December 11
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:50 Alla Detinko: Zariski density and computing with infinite linear groups (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 10:55 Michael Lipnowski: Building grids on \Gamma \backslash X for \Gamma \subset \mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{Z}) admitting membership testing (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:25 Arie Levit: Quantitative weak uniform discreteness (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
11:30 - 11:55 Plinio G. P. Murillo: Systole growth on arithmetic locally symmetric spaces (TCPL 201)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, December 12
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:50 Alex Kontorovich: Sphere packings and arithmetic (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:20 Cornelia Drutu: Effective equidistribution of expanding horospheres (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
14:00 - 14:50 Andrew Zimmer: Convex cocompact actions of non-hyperbolic groups (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
16:00 - 16:50 Nicolas Tholozan: Exotic compact quotients of pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, December 13
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:50 Dmitry Kleinbock: Khintchine-type theorems via L^2 estimates for Siegel transform (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 10:55 Ilya Gekhtman: Gibbs measures vs. random walks in negative curvature (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:25 Beibei Liu: Hausdorff dimension and geometric finiteness in Hyperbolic spaces (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Checkout by Noon (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)