Speaker: Micha Sharir (Tel Aviv University)
Title: Eliminating depth cycles for lines and triangles, with applications to bounding incidences
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The talk presents three related results.
We first consider the problem of eliminating all depth cycles in a set of n lines in 3-space.
For two lines l_1, l_2 in 3-space (in general position), we say that l_1 lies below l_2 if the
unique vertical line that meets both lines meets l_1 at a point below the point where it meets l_2.
Speaker: Gil Kalai, HU
Title: Algebraic-topological invariants of hypergraphs and extremal combinatorics
Abstract:
We will discuss some algebraic invariants of hypergraphs and some connection to algebraic topology. We will present some conjectural (rather speculative) relations with two central problems in extremal combinatorics: The Turan (4,3) conjecture and the Erdos-Rado sunflower conjecture.
Speaker: Lukas Kühne (University of Bonn)
Title: Heavy hyperplanes in multiarrangements and their freeness
Abstract:
One of the central topics among the theory of hyperplane arrangements is their freeness. Terao's conjecture tries to link the freeness with the combinatorics of an arrangement. One of the few categories of arrangements which satisfy this conjecture consists of 3-dimensional arrangements with an unbalanced Ziegler restriction. This means that the arrangement contains a lot of hyperplanes intersecting in one single line
Title: Inp-minimal ordered groups.
Abstract. The main goal of the talk is to present the proof of the theorem stating that inp-minimal (left)-ordered groups are abelian. This generalizes a previous result of P. Simon for bi-ordered inp-minimal groups.
Title: Random integer matrices
Abstract: I will discuss various models of random integer matrices, and their (occasionally surprising) properties. Some of the work discussed is joint with E. Fuchs.
Title: A tale of three elliptic curves.
Abstract: We will show how the arithmetic of three elliptic curves answers three old questions in the Euclidean geometry.
Title: Fixed points of finite groups on modules
Abstract: Suppose G is a finite group, p is a prime, S is a Sylow p-subgroup of G, and V is a G-module over a field of characteristic p. In some situations, an easy calculation shows that the fixed points of G on V are the same as the fixed points of the normalizer
of S in G. Generalizations of this result have been obtained previously to study the structure of G for p odd. We plan to describe a new generalization for p = 2. (This is part of joint work with J. Lynd that removes the classification of finite simple groups
Title: Almost Congruence Extension Property for subgroups of free groups.
Abstract.
The talk essentially based on: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02345
Let G be a group and H
every normal subgroup N of H is an intersection of some normal subgroup of G with H. The CEP appears in group theory in different context.
The following question seems to be very difficult:
Which finitely generated subgroup of a free group has CEP?
Title: Stability patterns in representation theory and applications
Abstract:
Many natural sequences of objects come equipped with group actions, e.g. the symmetric group on n letters acting on a space X_n. This leads to fundamental instability of invariants, such as homology, arising from the representation theory of the sequence of groups. Representation stability is a new and increasingly important set of ideas that describe a sense in which such sequence of representations (of different groups) stabilizes.
The existence of sharply 2-transitive groups without regular normal subgroup was a longstanding open problem. Recently constructions have been given, at least in certain characteristics. We will survey the current state of the art and explain some constructions and their limitations. (joint work with E. Rips)
Title: On groups with quadratic Dehn functions
Abstract: This is a joint work with A. Olshanskii. We construct a finitely presented group with quadratic Dehn function and undecidable conjugacy problem.
