Groups and
Probability
June 30 -
July 4, 2003
Budapest,
Hungary
Organizing Committee:
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László Pyber (Budapest) |
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Miklós Abért (Chicago) |
List of Participants and Title
of Talks
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Miklós Abért (Chicago): Group laws and free subgroups in topological groups |
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Imre
Bárány (Budapest) |
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Áron
Bereczky (Al-Khodh) |
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Béla
Bollobás (Cambridge, UK; Memphis): The
number of k-SAT functions |
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Miklós Bóna (Gainesville):
Permutations with roots |
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Alexandre V. Borovik (Manchester):
Non-deterministic aspects of infinite group theory |
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Thomas
Breuer (Aachen) |
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Emmanuel Breuillard (Paris): A
topological Tits’ alternative I |
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Persi Diaconis (Stanford):
Supercharacters and upper triangular matrices |
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Gábor
Elek (Budapest) |
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Katalin Friedl (Budapest): Quantum algorithms for groups I |
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Tsachik Gelander (Jerusalem): A
topological Tits’ alternative II |
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Rostislav I. Grigorchuk (Moscow):
Spectra of Schreier graphs of fractal groups and
KvNS spectral measures |
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Robert M. Guralnick (Los Angeles):
Derangements in Primitive
Permutation Groups |
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Zoltán
Halasi (Budapest) |
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Pál
Hegedüs (Cambridge,UK) |
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Erzsébet
Horváth (Budapest) |
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Péter
Hermann (Budapest) |
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Gábor Ivanyos (Budapest): Quantum algorithms for groups II |
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Andrei
Jaikin-Zapirain (Madrid) |
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Martin W. Liebeck (London):
Fuchsian groups, character theory and representation varieties |
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Alex Lubotzky (Jerusalem): Ramanujan complexes |
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András
Lukács (Budapest) |
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Andrea Lucchini (Brescia): Crowns and probability of generating a finite group |
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Avinoam Mann (Jerusalem): Generating
a group by random elements |
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Attila Maróti (Birmingham):
Generalized blocks and permutations with restricted cycle structure |
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Nikolai Nikolov (Jerusalem):
Finite index subgroups of PFG groups |
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Igor Pak (Cambridge,MA): Percolation
on finite Cayley graphs |
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Péter
Pál Pálfy (Budapest) |
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Gábor Pete (Berkeley): Isoperimetry and random walks on
supercritical percolation clusters of infinite groups |
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Károly
Podoski (Budapest) |
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Cheryl Praeger (Perth): On the distribution of
elements in finite symmetric groups |
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Imre
Ruzsa (Budapest): Measure and density in arithmetic |
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Jan Saxl (Cambridge,UK): TBA |
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Csaba
Schneider (Perth/Braunschweig) |
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Aner Shalev (Jerusalem): Fuchsian
groups, subgroup growth, random quotients and random walks |
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Ákos
Seress (Columbus) |
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Edit
Szabó (Debrecen) |
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Endre
Szabó (Budapest) |
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Balázs Szegedy (Budapest): Random
subgroups of the Nottingham group are free |
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András
Telcs (Budapest): Local impurities do not count |
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Bálint Virág (Boston): Amenability
via random walks |
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Jörg
Winkelmann (Nancy): On
subgroups of Lie groups generated by random tuples |
Conference Program
After
the talks on Monday we plan to visit one of the nicest thermal baths in
Budapest, Széchenyi Fürdő. In case you have a bathing cap, bring it along,
otherwise you can rent one there.
The
conference reception will be on Tuesday evening, featuring the most famous
Hungarian folk music formation, Muzsikás (see http://www.muzsikas.hu/).
There
will be a Problem Session on Wednesday, followed by a boat excursion to the
historic town Szentendre (see http://www.szentendre.hu/).
After
the talks on Thursday we plan to visit Lenin and his comrades in Szoborpark
(see http://www.szoborpark.hu/).
Mailing Address:
Alfréd
Rényi Institute of Mathematics,
Hungarian Academy of
Sciences
POB 127
H-1364 Budapest,
Hungary
Phone:(36 1) 483
8300
Phone/Fax: (36 1)
483 8333
Email: grpr@renyi.hu
With probability .96 your hotel will be City
Panzió Mátyás (address: Március 15.
tér 7.). This is the place you have to tell at the Airport Minibus desk after
arriving.