Midrasha on Groups

Midrasha on Groups | Fall 2024–25

Welcome to the Midrasha on Groups course's webpage at the Weizmann Institute of Science. 

Morning Session (Learning Seminar): Mondays 11:15–13:00, Goldsmith 208
Afternoon Session (Research Seminar): Mondays 14:15–16:00, Ziskind 1
The first meeting of the spring semester: March 24, 2025

Learning Seminar 

Fall 2024–25 | Discrete Groups, Expanding Graphs, and Measure Invariants

This semester, we will study Discrete Groups, Expanding Graphs, and Measure Invariants.

Students who are interested in giving talks are welcome to contact the organizers.

Main Reference
[Lub] Alexander Lubotzky, Discrete Groups, Expanding Graphs and Invariant Measures. With an appendix by Jonathan D. Rogawski. Progress in Mathematics, 125. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 1994.

Topics and Speakers
The topics and speakers of each week are here.

Fall 2024–25 | Measured Group Theory

On Monday, September 30, 2024, at 11:15, in Goldsmith 208, we had a special meeting in which we presented optional topics for this semester and voted for the preferred one: Measured Group Theory.

Students who are interested in giving talks are welcome to contact the organizers.

Main References
[Fur] Furman, A surevy of measured group. Geometry, rigidity, and group actions, 296–374, 2011.
[Kerr-Li] Ergodic Theory: Independence and Dichotomies. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, Cham, 2016.

Secondary References
[Ioa] Ioana, Orbit equivalence of ergodic group actions (lecture notes).
[Loh] Löh, Ergodic Theory of Groups (lecture notes), 2020.

Topics and Speakers
The topics and speakers of each week are here.

Research Seminar

Spring 2025

Fall 2024–25