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CLUSE MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL

GROUP THEORY

MESSIGNY ET VANTOUX
OCTOBER 28TH TO NOVEMBER 1ST, 2007




This four days school was held at the Vacation Center “la Cigogne” in the Domaine Sainte Anne, Messigny et Vantoux, near Dijon, from October 28th till November 1st, 2007. It was organized by the “Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne”.  It is part of a project of mathematical schools that should held every year  in the framework of a agreement between the Universities of Bourgogne and Franche-Comté and the universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel and Fribourg.


COURSES AND CONFERENCES

The school consisted on three 4-houres mini-courses completed by 10 half-hour talks. The three mini-courses were

Laurent BARTHOLDI (Ecole polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Lie algebras associated to discrete groups

Cédric BONNAFE (Université de Besançon)
Polynomial invariants of finite groups, and reflection groups

Goulnara ARJANTSEVA (Université de Genève)
Random groups


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Nicolas MONOD (Université de Genève)
Eva BAYER-FLUCKIGER (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Alain VALETTE (Université de Neuchâtel)

Anne CORTELLA (Université de Besançon)



ORGINISATION COMMITTEE

Lucy MOSER-JAUSLIN
Luis PARIS


SPONSORS

Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, Ecole doctorale CARNOT, Université de Bourgogne (BQR), Université de Bourgogne (Relations internationales), Conseil Régional de Bourgogne, Ministère de l’éducation nationale, de l’enseignement et de la recherche, CNRS.

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