Conference Group theory: Applications in analysis, geometry and arithmetic (IASM, Harbin, January 2027)

Group theory plays a prominent role in analysis, geometry, and number theory. This conference aims to bring together leading experts and young researchers to discuss recent developments in the field.

Time of the conference:

• Mini-courses (Profinite groups, Cohomology, Koszul/Massey vanishing properties, Bass–Serre theory ...): 4–8 January 2027
• Conference: 11–15 January 2027

List of mini-courses:

Six mini-courses of three hours will be given on different topics related to group theory:

• Christian Maire (University of Besançon, FEMTO-ST)
• Federico Scavia (Sorbonne University Paris Nord)
• Thomas Weigel (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• More later...

List of speakers for the conference:

• Simone Blumer (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• Elyes Boughattas (Morningside Center)
• Ilaria Castellano (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• Ido Efrat (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
• Julian Feuerpfeil (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• Adrian Gonzalez (Autonomous University of Madrid)
• Ning Guo (IASM)
• Keping Huang (IASM)
• Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain (ICMAT, Spain) TBC
• Dohyeong Kim (Seoul National University)
• Joachim Koenig (Korea National University of Education)
• Heon Lee (University of Glasgow)
• Christian Maire (University of Besançon, FEMTO-ST)
• Conchita Martinez-Perez (University of Zaragoza)
• Nowras Otmen (Università di Padova)
• Taras Panov (Lomonosov Moscow State University) TBC
• Dmitri Piontkovski (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
• Federico Scavia (Sorbonne University Paris Nord)
• Zoran Sunik (Hofstra University, USA)
• Jun Wang (IASM)
• Daxun Wang (Tsinghua University)
• Thomas Weigel (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• Pavel Zalesski (University of Brasília)

Scientific committee:

• Quanhua Xu (IASM)
• Jan Minac (Western University, Canada)
• Alexander Merkurjev (UCLA)
• Ravi Ramakrishna (Cornell University)

Organizing committee

• Li Cai (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou)
• Oussama Hamza (IASM)
• Yuanyuan Jing (IASM)
• Ting Lu (IASM)
• Zhizheng Yu (IASM)

Contact

If you want to participate, please contact the organizers using either, the following emaill address, or filling the following form, or registering to the following wechat group:

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Venue:

Last update: 25^th of October 2026