Program

The conference will start on Monday February 20, in the morning, and will end on Thursday February 23 in the afternoon. There will be a free afternoon and plenty of time for discussion and scientific interaction.


Speakers

Corina Ciobotaru (Université de Fribourg)
    - Affine buildings, group actions and various compactifications
Tsachik Gelander (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot)
    - Torsion in negative curvature
Olivier Guichard (Université de Strasbourg)
    - (Generalized) Satake compactifications and compactifications of locally symmetric spaces associated
      with Anosov representations
Chris Judge (Indiana University)
    - On the rigidity of cusp forms
Fanny Kassel (CNRS)
    - Convex cocompactness in real projective geometry
Jean Lécureux (Université Paris-Sud 11)
    - Projectivities and lattices in exotic affine buildings
Arielle Leitner (Technion, Haifa)
    - Generalized Cusps on Convex Projective Manifolds
Giuseppe Martone (USC)
    - Positively ratioed representations and their properties
Anne Parreau (Université Grenoble Alpes)
    - Vectorial metric, Finsler geometries and convexity in symmetric spaces and affine buildings
Frédéric Paulin (Université Paris-Sud 11)
    - On the ergodic theory of group actions on trees
Joan Porti (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
    - Reidemeister torsion for sequences of hyperbolic three-manifolds
Jean Raimbault (Université de Toulouse)
    - Some questions and fewer answers about hyperbolic manifolds
Nicolas Tholozan (CNRS)
    - Volume of compact pseudo-Riemannian Clifford-Klein forms
Gabriela Weitze-Schmithüsen (Universität des Saarlandes)
    - Congruence group problems for Veech groups


Schedule

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
  9:15-  9:30 Welcome
  9:30-10:30 Weitze-Schmithüsen Guichard Porti Ciobotaru
10:30-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:15 Raimbault Lécureux Paulin Martone
12:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Gelander Tholozan Free afternoon Leitner
15:00-15:45 Coffee break Coffee break
15:45-16:45 Kassel Judge Parreau
evening Reception



Detailed Program

Here you can download a detailed program with the titles and abstracts of the talks.




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