Geometry and Group Theory

GGT Seminar

The seminar consists mostly of presentations by the group members, with occasional talks by guests. People external to the group are also welcome to attend!

We meet weekly on Thursdays at 13:15, in SR 8.

Summer 2025

  • 17.07 Kevin Li (Regensburg) - A combination theorem for homological properties of groups
  • 10.07 Antoine Cuvelier (ENS Paris) - On the saddle connection graph of the golden L
  • 03.07 Leon Pernak (Saarbrücken) - Quadratic equations in wreath products of abelian groups
  • 26.05 Yuri Santos Rego (Lincoln) - Locally compact Artin groups and their finiteness properties
  • 22.05 Julien Boulanger (Santiago de Chile) - Connection points on translation surfaces
  • 15.05 José Pedro Quintanilha - Counting chambers in the noncrossing partition complex
  • 08.05 Raphael Appenzeller - Arxivology: "Characterization of higher rank via affine maps"

Winter 2024 / 25

  • 30.01 Asif Shaikh (Frankfurt) - Cogrowth in Free Groups
  • 23.01 Petra Schwer - Conjugation in split Euclidean Isometry groups
  • 16.01 Marco Lotz - Unbounded reflection length and conjugacy
  • 19.12 Raphael Appenzeller - Playing cops and robbers on Cayley graphs - connections to hyperbolicity
  • 12.12 Bianca Marchionna - Invariants and zeta functions for totally disconnected locally compact groups
  • 03.12 Isobel Davies - Complete CAT(0) Spaces with Apartment Systems
  • 28.11 Dorian Chanfi (Gießen) - Polyhedral compactifications of Bruhat-Tits buildings
  • 21.11 Raphael Appenzeller - What is an affine Lambda-building?
  • 14.11 Maurice Reichert - Geometric Invariants and Asymptotics of Translation Surfaces
  • 07.11 Bianca Marchionna - Tree structures on non-affine buildings
  • 24.10 José Pedro Quintanilha - What is a quandle?
  • 10.10 Marco Lotz - Reflection length in infinite non-affine Coxeter groups

Summer 2024

  • 18.07 Hamid Al-Saqban (Paderborn) - On the Unique Ergodicity for Foliations of Generic Abelian Differentials
  • 04.07 Carsten Peterson (Paderborn) - Degenerate Brion's formula and applications to symmetric spaces and affine buildings
  • 27.06 Matthias Uschold (Regensburg) - Mapping degree sets between manifolds
  • 20.06 Johannes Rau (Bogotá) - Real algebraic varieties close to non-singular tropical limits
  • 13.06 Sira Busch (Münster) - Projectivity Groups of Spherical Buildings
  • 16.05 Raphael Appenzeller (ETH Zürich) - Bridges between affine buildings and symmetric spaces
  • 15.04 Valentin Ovsienko (Reims) - q-deformed numbers: geometry and combinatorics
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