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Topological Groups

 

Syllabus

Lecture Notes

Homework

  • HW1 (Nov 17): 5 exercises: Exercises 1.8, 1.14, 1.16, 2.16, and one of {1.6, 1.11, 1.15, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 2.7}.
  • HW2 (Dec 8): 5 exercises: Exercises 4.10, 5.5, 5.11, one of {4.3, 4.11} and one of {4.4, 5.13, 5.20}. 
  • HW3 (Feb 2): 3 exercises: Exercises 8.3, 8.12, 10.11.

 

Topics in Topological Groups Seminar

Date: Mon, Jan 27

Place: Amado 814

Schedule:

9:00 – 10:20. Bar Tavor. Peter-Weyl Theorem
10:20 – 10:40. Coffee & Cookies
10:40 – 12:00. Alexandra Trost. Pontryagin duality
13:00 – 14:20. Krishna Balajirao Manoorkar. Neretin group and Aut(T)
14:30 – 15:50. Stav Berman. The Bruhat-Tits building of SL2(Qp)
15:50 – 16:10. Coffee & Cookies
16:10 – 17:30. Tzlil Ben Yehezkel. Large scale geometry of groups

 

Into the Forest – Lecture notes and exercises

 

Classroom assignment for problem sessions

Indira Chatterji – Median spaces – Exercise1Exercise2

Bruno Duchesne –  Dendrites – Lecture1, Lecture2, Lecture3 and exercises

Mark Hagen – CAT(0) Cube Complexes – Lecture notes and exercises

Arnaud Hilion – R-tress – Lecture1, Lecture2, Lecture3 (by Radhika Gupta)  Exercise1 (by Stav Berman)

Michah Sageev – Bass-Serre Theory – Exercises (by Stav Berman)