New Methods for Zimmer’s Conjecture - IPAM

New Methods for Zimmer’s Conjecture

January 22 - 26, 2018

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, January 22, 2018

Morning Session

08:00-08:50
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:50-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-09:50
Federico Rodriguez Hertz (Pennsylvania State University)
Global rigidity of Anosov actions of higher rank lattices
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:20
Aaron Brown (University of Chicago)
Zimmer’s conjecture for actions of cocompact lattices (Part I)
11:30-12:20
Mikael De La Salle (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Lafforgue's strong property (T) (Part I)

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Jairo Bochi (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
Flexibility of Lyapunov Exponents
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Clark Butler (University of Chicago)
Measurable rigidity of the Livsic equation for linear cocycles

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Bassam Fayad (Institut Mathématiques de Jussieu/Paris 6 )
Limit laws in Diophantine approximations
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:20
Mikael De La Salle (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Lafforgue's strong property (T) (Part II)
11:30-12:20
Amir Mohammadi (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Effective results in homogeneous dynamics

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Zhenqi Wang (Michigan State University)
Cohomological equation and cocycle rigidity of discrete parabolic actions in some higher rank Lie groups
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Manfred Einsiedler (ETH Zurich)
Measure Rigidity for diagonalizable flows

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Bertrand Deroin (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))
Orderability of higher rank lattices
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:20
Aaron Brown (University of Chicago)
Zimmer’s conjecture for actions of cocompact lattices (Part II)
11:30-12:20
Kathryn Mann (Brown University)
Rigidity and geometricity for surface group actions

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Sebastian Hurtado Salazar (University of Chicago)
Zimmer's conjecture for SL_m(Z):
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
David Fisher (Indiana University)
Future directions and open problems
17:00-18:30
Reception and continued discussion

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Margulis' and Zimmer's Super-Rigidity and some of their extensions
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:20
Maria Beatrice Pozzetti (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Maximal representations
11:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

14:00-14:50
Dave Witte Morris (University of Lethbridge)
Efficient bounded generation by subgroups of Q-rank one
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:20
Yehuda Shalom (Tel Aviv University)
New methods for the (Margulis-)Zimmer conjecture
17:00-18:00
Narutaka Ozawa (Kyoto University)
UCLA Math Department Colloquium - Aut(F5) has the property (T)
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