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
8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50
Federico Rodriguez Hertz (Pennsylvania State University)

Global rigidity of Anosov actions of higher rank lattices

 
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
11:30 - 12:20
Mikael De La Salle (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

Lafforgue's strong property (T) (Part I)

 
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Jairo Bochi (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)

Flexibility of Lyapunov Exponents

 
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
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

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Manfred Einsiedler (ETH Zurich)

Measure Rigidity for diagonalizable flows

 

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Bertrand Deroin (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))

Orderability of higher rank lattices

 
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Sebastian Hurtado Salazar (University of Chicago)

Zimmer's conjecture for SL_m(Z):

 
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00
David Fisher (Indiana University)

Future directions and open problems

5:00 - 6:30 Reception and continued discussion

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
Maria Beatrice Pozzetti (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

Maximal representations

 
11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
Dave Witte Morris (University of Lethbridge)

Efficient bounded generation by subgroups of Q-rank one

 
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:20
Yehuda Shalom (Tel Aviv University)

New methods for the (Margulis-)Zimmer conjecture

5:00 - 6:00

Friday, January 26, 2018

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
Jesse Peterson (Vanderbilt University)

Poisson boundaries of II_1 factors

 
11:30 - 12:20
Adrian Ioana (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))

Cocycle superrigidity for translation actions of product groups