Lundi 7 septembre 2009

Après-midi

14h - 15h: Yves Benoist (Paris 11): Invariant subsets of homogeneous spaces.

15h15 - 16h15: Peter Haïssinsky (Aix-Marseille 1): A notion of invariant line fields for coarse conformal dynamical systems.

16h45 - 17h45: Emmanuel Breuillard (Paris 11): Carnot-Caratheodory geometry and the asymptotics of the word metric on nilpotent groups.

then: poster session by young colleagues.



Mardi 8 septembre 2009

Matin

9h30 - 10h30: François Dahmani (Toulouse 3): Property FA for random groups, and boundaries.

11h - 12h: Jacek Swiatkowski (Wroclaw): Gromov boundaries with interesting topology.

Buffet

Après-midi

14h - 15h: Michel Boileau (Toulouse 3) : Commensurability of hyperbolic knot groups.

15h15 - 16h15: François Guéritaud (Lille 1): Alternating pseudo-Anosovs.

16h45 - 17h45: Nicolas Juillet (Strasbourg 1): Ricci curvature in metric spaces: the case of the Heisenberg group.



Mercredi 9 septembre 2009

Matin

9h30 - 10h30: François Ledrappier (Paris 6): Linear drift for covers of compact manifolds.

11h - 12h: Vincent Lafforgue (Paris 7): Strengthened Property (T) and applications.

Buffet

Après-midi

14h - 15h: Damien Gaboriau (ENS Lyon): Non orbit-equivalent actions of countable groups.

15h15 - 16h15: Indira Chatterji (Orléans): On a question of Nori.

16h45 - 17h45: Alain Valette (Neuchâtel): Proper isometric actions on $L^p$-spaces.



Jeudi 10 septembre

Matin

9h30 - 10h30: Misha Gromov (IHÉS, Bures-sur-Yvette): Crystals, proteins and isoperimetry.

11h - 12h: Stefano Nardulli (Palermo): Semianalyticity of isoperimetric profiles (d'après Renata Grimaldi, Stefano Nardulli et Pierre Pansu).

Buffet

Après-midi

14h - 15h: Olivier Biquard (Paris 6): Complete Einstein metrics, symmetric spaces, and regularity.

15h15 - 16h15: Viktor Schroeder (Zürich): Ptolemy spaces with many circles.

16h45 - 17h45: Marc Burger (ETH Zürich): An extension criterion for lattice actions on the circle.



Vendredi 11 septembre

Matin

9h30 - 10h30: Vincent Guirardel (Toulouse 3): Small cancellation in the mapping class group and Out(Fn).

11h - 12h: Nicolas Monod (EPF Lausanne): CAT(0) groups and lattices.