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
LIST
OF PARTICIPANTS
PROGRAM
ABSTRACTS
PHOTOGRAPHY