Groupes, géométrie et analyse - 17 & 18 December 2018 - IHES
Alain Valette Event

Groupes, géométrie et analyse – 17 & 18 December 2018

Alain Valette, born on 24 December 1958, obtained his thesis in December 1983, entitled “K-theory for certain C*-algebras associated with Lie groups” under the co-directorship of Lucien Waelbroeck and Alain Connes. He has been a professor at the University of Neuchâtel since June 1988. His mathematical contributions are numerous and have a very broad spectrum, including operator algebras, graph theory and group geometry. The books he has written with several co-authors, for example on the Kazhdan property (T), the expansion graphs or the Baum-Connes conjecture, are works of reference that have been crucial in the modern development of these subjects.

The conference, organized by Indira Chatterji (Univ. Nice Sophia-Antipolis), Yves de Cornulier (Univ. Lyon 1), Soyoung Moon (Univ. de Bourgogne, Dijon), Yves Stalder (Univ. Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand) and Romain Tessera (Univ. Paris-Sud 11), will be held at IHES on 17 and 18 December 2018. The list of speakers includes: Goulnara ARZHANTSEVA (University of Vienna), Bachir BEKKA (University of Rennes 1), Pierre-Emmanuel CAPRACE (Université catholique de Louvain), Alain CONNES (Collège de France & IHES), Ana KHUKHRO (University of Cambridge), Georges SKANDALIS (IMJ-PRG), Stefaan VAES (KU Leuven) and Karen VOGTMANN (University of Warwick).

Registration is free but compulsory

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