Reading Seminar M2RI "Geometric Group Theory"
Winter 2022-2023

Place

The reading seminar takes place on Thursday. Usually the talk starts at 13:30 and the room is Cavailles (132-1R2), but check on the schedule below to be sure.

Book

We will follow the book Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist

Contacts

The two teachers in charge of the seminar are Stéphane Lamy and Arnaud Hilion.

Participants

• Gabriel Bittencourt Rios
• Guilherme Cerqueira Gonçalves
• Abdelouahab Khelifati
• Quentin Mareau
• Junyu Meng
• Vittorio Puricelli
• Florian Thiry
• Tony Zaayter
• Jialong Zhang

Schedule

• Monday December 5th, 15h45, room U4-212:
  Organisation meeting (summary)
• Thursday December 8th, 13h30, room 132-1R2:
  Stéphane Lamy, chapter 1 "Free groups and group presentations" (notes for the talk)
• Thursday December 15th, 13h30, room 132-1R2:
  Arnaud Hilion, chapter 2 "Cayley graphs"
• Thursday January 5th, 13h30, room 207-1R2:
  Guilherme Cerqueira Gonçalves, chapter 3 "Groups acting on tree". Referent: Lamy
  Abdelouahab Khelifati, chapter 4 "Free group and folding". Referent: Hilion
• Thursday January 12th, 13h30, room 132-1R2:
  Quentin Mareau, chapter 5 "The ping pong lemma". Referent: Lamy
  Gabriel Bittencourt Rios, chapter 6, "Automorphisms of free groups". Referent: Hilion
• Thursday January 19th, 13h30, room 132-1R2:
  Tony Zaayter and Florian Thiry, chapter 7 "Quasi-isometries". Referent: Lamy
• Thursday January 26th, 13h00, room 132-1R2:
  Jialong Zhang, chapter 8 "Dehn functions". Referent: Hilion
  Junyu Meng, chapter 9 "Hyperbolic groups". Referent: Lamy
• Thursday February 2nd, 14h30, room 132-1R2:
  Vittorio Puricelli, chapter 10 "End of groups". Referent: Hilion
• Thursday February 9th, 13h00, room 132-1R2:
  Abdelouahab Khelifati, chapter 17 "Mapping class groups". Referent: Lamy