Workshop: Profinite groups and topology
2017-05-08 00:00 - 2017-05-11 00:00 (Europe/Paris) | St Charles - FRUMAM, 3, place Victor Hugo, Marseille, 13003, France
Workshop: WORKSHOP
Speakers

Louis Funar (Institut Fourier, Grenoble)
Benoît Loisel (École polytechnique, Palaiseau)
Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University Jerusalem)
Sylvain Maillot (IMAG, Montpellier)
Luisa Paoluzzi (I2M, Marseille)
T.N. Venkataramana (TIFR Mumbai)
Gareth Wilkes (Oxford)

Organizers

Michel Boileau (Aix-Marseille Université)
Peter Haïssinsky (Aix-Marseille Université)
Bertrand Rémy (École polytechnique, Palaiseau)

Schedule

Monday 8th
14h-15h15 Alex Lubotzky: Presentations of profinite groups
16h-17h15 Alex Lubotzky: Phantom finite subgroups of torsion free groups

Tuesday 9th
9h15-10h30 Venkataramana: Grothendieck closure of an integral linear group, 1
11h-12h15 Louis Funar: Representations of mapping class groups and applications, 1

14h30-15h45 Gareth Wilkes: Profinite completions of 3-manifold groups, 1
16h30-17h30 Benoît Loisel: Explicit minimal generation of some linear pro-p groups

Wednesday 10th
9h15-10h30 Venkataramana: Grothendieck closure of an integral linear group, 2
11h-12h15 Louis Funar: Representations of mapping class groups and applications, 2

14h30-15h45 Gareth Wilkes: Profinite completions of 3-manifold groups, 2
16h30-17h30 Luisa Paoluzzi: Character varieties of knots and their reductions mod p

Thursday 11th
9h15-10h30 Venkataramana: Grothendieck closure of an integral linear group, 3
11h-12h15 Louis Funar: Representations of mapping class groups and applications, 3

14h30-15h45 Gareth Wilkes: Profinite completions of 3-manifold groups, 3
16h30-17h30 Sylvain Maillot: Structure theory of open graph 3-manifolds
