CMI/IAS Workshop on Lie Groups, Represenations and Discrete Mathematics

November 14 - 18, 2005

Organizers:

Avi Wigderson, IAS
Alexander Lubotzky, IAS
David Ellwood, CMI

An educational workshop with several lecture series on:

1. Expanders in computer science and discrete mathematics.
2. Property tau and its applications in 3-dimensional hyperbolic geometry.
3. The combinatorics of finite simple groups: expansion, diameter, girth and connections with sum-product results on finite fields.
4. Harmonic analysis on buildings and representation theory of p-adic groups.
5. Ramanujan graphs and Ramanujan complexes, higher dimensional laplacians.

Schedule

(Please click the link for the Schedule of the workshop)

Speakers

Jean Bourgain, IAS
Alex Gamburd, IAS
Harald Helfgott, University of Montreal
Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
Marc Lackenby, University of Oxford
Alex Lubotzky, IAS/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Roy Mehulam, IAS/Technion
Nikolay Nikolov, University of Oxford
Peter Sarnak, IAS/Princeton University
Yehuda Shalom, IAS
Uzi Vishne, IAS/Bar Ilan University
Avi Wigderson, IAS
Efim Zelmanov, University of California, San Diego
 

Organized in partnership with The Clay Mathematics Institute