Title: Towards Chabauty-Kim loci for the polylogarithmic quotient over an arbitrary number field
Abstract: Let K be a number field and let S be an open
subscheme of Spec O_K.
Minhyong Kim has developed a method for
bounding the set of S-valued points on a
hyperbolic curve X over S; his method opens
a new avenue in the quest for an "effective
Mordell conjecture".
But although Kim's approach has lead to the
construction of explicit bounds in special
cases, the problem of realizing the potential

Let X be a complex manifold and let M be a meromorphic connection on X with
poles along a normal crossing divisor D. Levelt-Turrittin theorem asserts that the pull-back of M to the formal neighbourhood of a codimension 1 point in D decom poses (after ramification) into elementary factors easy to work with.
This decomposition may not hold at some other points of D. When it does, we say
that M has good formal decomposition along D. A conjecture of Sabbah, recently
proved by Kedlaya and Mochizuki independently, asserts roughly the

I will discuss in the talk David Nadler’s “arborealizaton conjecture” and will sketch its proof. The conjecture states that singularities of a Lagrangian skeleton of a symplectic Weinstein manifold could be always simplified to a finite list of singularities, called ``arboreal”. This is a joint work with Daniel Albarez-Gavela, David Nadler and Laura Starkston.

Title: Rigidity of higher rank diagonalizable actions in positive characteristic

The (wrapped) Fukaya category of a symplectic manifold is a category whose objects are Lagrangian submanifolds and which contains a wealth of information about the symplectic topology. I will discuss the construction of the wrapped Fukaya category for certain completely integrable Hamiltonian systems. These are 2n-dimensional symplectic manifolds carrying a system of n commuting Hamiltonians surjecting onto Euclidean space. This gives rise to a Lagrangian torus fibration with singularities.

"Entropy theory for non-amenable groups (part II)"

Title: Equidistribution of expanding translates of curves in homogeneous spaces and Diophantine approximation.
Abstract:
We consider an analytic curve $\varphi: I \rightarrow \mathbb{M}(n\times m, \mathbb{R}) \hookrightarrow \mathrm{SL}(n+m, \mathbb{R})$ and embed it into some homogeneous space $G/\Gamma$, and translate it via some diagonal flow

Consider a sequence of random walks on $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$ with symmetric generating sets $A= A(p)$. I will describe known and new results regarding the mixing time and cut-off. For instance, if the sequence $|A(p)|$ is bounded then the cut-off phenomenon does not occur, and more precisely I give a lower bound on the size of the cut-off window in terms of $|A(p)|$. A natural conjecture from random walk on a graph is that the total variation mixing time is bounded by maximum degree times diameter squared.

Speaker: Misha Belolipetsky
Title: Arithmetic Kleinian groups generated by elements of finite order
Abstract:
We show that up to commensurability there are only finitely many
cocompact arithmetic Kleinian groups generated by rotations. The proof
is based on a generalised Gromov-Guth inequality and bounds for the
hyperbolic and tube volumes of the quotient orbifolds. To estimate the
hyperbolic volume we take advantage of known results towards Lehmer's
problem. The tube volume estimate requires study of triangulations of

Title: Arithmetic of Double Torus Quotients and the Distribution of Periodic Torus Orbits
Abstract:
In this talk I will describe some new arithmetic invariants for pairs of torus orbits on inner forms of PGLn and SLn. These invariants allow us to significantly strengthen results towards the equidistribution of packets of periodic torus orbits on higher rank S-arithmetic quotients. An important aspect of our method is that it applies to packets of periodic orbits of maximal tori which are only partially split.

To every topological group, one can associate a unique universal
minimal flow (UMF): a flow that maps onto every minimal flow of the
group. For some groups (for example, the locally compact ones), this
flow is not metrizable and does not admit a concrete description.
However, for many "large" Polish groups, the UMF is metrizable, can be
computed, and carries interesting combinatorial information. The talk
will concentrate on some new results that give a characterization of
metrizable UMFs of Polish groups. It is based on two papers, one joint

To every topological group, one can associate a unique universal
minimal flow (UMF): a flow that maps onto every minimal flow of the
group. For some groups (for example, the locally compact ones), this
flow is not metrizable and does not admit a concrete description.
However, for many "large" Polish groups, the UMF is metrizable, can be
computed, and carries interesting combinatorial information. The talk
will concentrate on some new results that give a characterization of
metrizable UMFs of Polish groups. It is based on two papers, one joint

Title: Combinatorial Geometry
Abstract:
Matroids or (combinatorial) geometries are natural abstractions of
the concept of linear and algebraic independence over fields, were defined
by Whitney nearly a century ago. Since then, they have become a crucial tool
in model theory, graph coloring, noncommutative geometty and the study of
characteristic classes. Quite amazingly, it was recently shown that matroids
satisy deep results classically associated to algebraic varieties, something
that was not expected in this generality.