Lie Groups February Workshop: Agenda
February 6-10, 2006
Organizers:
Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study
Alexander Lubotzky, Institute for Advanced Study
The conference is being supported by the National Science Foundation.
All talks will be held in Simonyi Hall.
Messages for workshop guests may be left by calling (609) 734-8100 and will be placed on the bulletin board in the lobby of Simonyi Hall.
Monday, February 6, 2006
09:30 am - 10:20 Noga Alon (IAS), Expanders and sparse universal graphs
10:35 am - 11:25 Prasad Tetali (Georgia Tech), Mixing time of nonreversible Markov chains
11:40 am - 12:30 Eyal Rozenman (IAS), Derandomized squaring of graphs
12:30 pm - 02:00 Lunch, Dining Hall
02:10 pm - 03:00 Bill Kantor (IAS), Short presentations of finite simple groups
03:00 pm - 04:00 Tea - Fuld Hall Common Room
04:00 pm - 04:50 Marc Lackenby ( Oxford ), Large groups, error-correcting codes and topological cocycles
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
09:30 am - 10:20 Laszlo Babai ( University of Chicago ), On the diameter of finite groups
10:35 am - 11:25 Igor Pak (MIT), Generating random group elements
11:40 am - 12:30 Beth Samuels ( University of CA , Berkeley ), On Isospectrality of Manifolds and Cayley Graphs
12:30 pm -02:00 Lunch - Dining Hall
02:10 pm - 03:00 Fan Chung Graham ( University of CA , San Diego ), Cheeger inequalities for directed graphs
03:00 pm - 04:00 Tea - Fuld Hall Common Room
04:00 pm - 04:50 Aner Shalev ( Hebrew University ), Characters of Lie type groups, diameters, and a Waring-type theorem
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
09:30 am - 10:20 Gregory Margulis (IAS), Closed orbits, expanding property, and spectral gap
10:35 am - 11:25 Winnie Li ( Penn State ), Ramanujan graphs, Ramanujan hypergraphs, and automorphic form
11:40 am - 12:30 Shlomo Hoory (University British Columbia ), The non-backtracking spectrum of the universal cover of a graph
12:30 pm - 02:00 Lunch - Dining Hall
02:10 pm - 03:00 Jean Bourgain (IAS), Sum-product theorems and expanders
03:00 pm - 04:00 Tea - Fuld Hall Common Room
04:00 pm - 04:50 Open problem session
06:00 pm - Buffet Dinner, Dilworth Room, IAS Dining Hall, reservations and payment required by January 30, 2006.
Thursday, February 9, 2006
09:30 am - 10:20 Audrey Terras (University CA, San Diego ), What are L-Functions of Graph Coverings and What are they good for?
10:35 am - 11:25 Lior Silberman (IAS), Poincare inequalities and fixed point properties
11:40 am - 12:30 Nicolas Bergeron (University Paris-sud), Isolated cohomological representations; cohomological applications
12:30 pm - 02:00 Lunch - Dining Hall
02:10 pm - 03:00 Joel Friedman (University British Columbia ), Alon\'s Second Eigenvalue Conjecture and Generalizations
03:00 pm - 04:00 Tea - Fuld Hall Common Room
04:00 pm - 04:50 Peter Sarnak (Princeton/IAS), Equidistribution of integers ,expanders and primes
Friday, February 10, 2006
09:30 am - 10:20 Akshay Venkatesh (IAS), Expander graphs and the distribution of integral points on the sphere
10:35 am - 11:25 Amir Shpilka (Technion), Derandomizing Homomorphism Testing in General Groups
11:40 am - 12:30 Ronen Shaltiel ( Haifa University ), Randomness extractors: motivation, applications and constructions
12:30 pm - 02:00 Lunch - Dining Hall