LMS Research School on Growth and Expansion in Groups
Growth and Expansion in Groups
LMS-HIMR Research School
University of Warwick
6 - 10 July 2026
Organisers: Jitendra Bajpai (Kiel), Sean Eberhard (Warwick)
The school unites experts and early-career researchers to examine the latest developments in Growth and Expansion in Groups. Invited speakers will present both foundational perspectives and cutting-edge results, equipping participants with a deep understanding of the field and the skills to tackle its major challenges.
Minicourses:
- Daniele Dona (BME, Budapest, Hungary): Babai's conjecture for classical groups
- Anna Erschler (CNRS Paris, France): Growth and isoperimetry of infinite groups
- Itay Glazer (Technion, Israel): Word maps and word measures
- Noam Lifschitz (Hebrew University, Israel): Fourier anti-concentration inequalities for functions on groups: methods and applications
In addition, there will be plenary talks given by
- Laura Ciobanu (Heriot-Watt University, TU Berlin)
- Ben Green (University of Oxford)
- Harald Helfgott (CNRS Paris, France)
- Michael Magee (Durham University)
Junior participants will also have the opportunity to give a short talk to introduce themselves and their specialism.
Registration
Registration is now closed.
This event has been made possible through grants from the London Mathematical Society and the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research. Participants (apart from local participants) are asked to contribute to the funding through registration fees: £150 for research students, £250 for early-career researchers (within five years of completing PhD, excluding career breaks). Aside from travel costs, the registration fee is the total cost to the participant.
The payment link can be accessed here: Payment for LMS Research SchoolLink opens in a new window. Please pay the registration fee by Fri 5 June.
Financial aid is available for participants who would otherwise be unable to attend. Participants have received an email about this and will hear back by the end of May.
Accommodation
Accommodation for non-local participants and speakers is being arranged by the MRC, and it will be confirmed around the end of May.
All rooms for participants will be single rooms, with some shared facilities (bathroom/kitchen). Some participants will be housed in the Maths Houses. Others will be accommodated in Jack Martin.
Schedule
The tentative schedule is below. Arrival is 9am Monday and departure is after lunch Friday. The event is being hosted in the Zeeman Building, University of Warwick. Coffee and lunch will take place in the common room on the first floor (TBC). All talks will take place in MS.03. The location of the Gala dinner is TBC.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
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9:15 |
Welcome | ||||
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9:30 |
Dona 1 | Dona 2 | Dona 3 | Lifschitz 3 | Dona 4 |
| 10:30 | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee |
| 11:00 | Lifschitz 1 | Lifschitz 2 | Gong show 3 | Glazer 3 | Lifschitz 4 |
| 12:00 | Erschler 1 | Erschler 2 | Erschler 3 | Erschler 4 | Glazer 4 |
| 1:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 3:00 | Glazer 1 | Glazer 2 | Free Afternoon | Harald Helfgott | |
| 4:00 | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee | ||
| 4:30 | Gong Show 1 | Gong Show 2 | Ben Green | ||
| 5:00 | Michael Magee | Laura Ciobanu | |||
| 7:00 | Gala dinner |
Non-local participants
- Marco Barbieri (University of Ljubljana)
- Adrian Beker (University of Zagreb)
- Corentin Bodart (University of Oxford)
- Ewan Cassidy (University of Cambridge)
- Segev Gonen Cohen (ETH Zurich)
- Nathan Deloire (Sorbonne University)
- Danielle Ernst-West (Tel Aviv university)
- Islam Foniqi (TU Berlin)
- Alba Gonzalez Gonzalez (University of Oxford)
- Harish Kishnani (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune)
- Cosmas Kravaris (Princeton University)
- Liam Hanany (University of Cambridge)
- Jakob Heikamp (Kiel University)
- Hongyi Huang (Southern University of Science and Technology)
- Lal Bahadur Sahu (IIT Bombay)
- Arunava Mandal (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)
- Sarah Martin (University of Bristol)
- Eduardo Alejandro Silva Müller (University of Münster)
- Ken Vandermeersch (KU Leuven)
- Jonas Pinke (Tu Dresden)
- Tomer Rahamim (Technion)
- Soumyadeb Samanta (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
- Carl Schildkraut (Stanford University)
- Omer Chen Shaham (Technion)
- Khyati Sharma (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research)
- Yotam Shomroni (Weizmann Institute of Science)
- Sandip Singh (IIT Bombay)
- Shashank Vikram Singh (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali)
- Dávid Szabó (Alfréd Rényi Institute)
- Jakub Szymański (Polish Academy of Sciences)
- Lukas Vandeputte (KU Leuven)
- Gal Yehuda (Yale)
- Yuval Yifrach (University of Zurich)
- Zhang Yitong (Sorbonne University)
Local participants (partial list)
- Poppy Azmi
- Engun Bayasgalan
- Edward Stefan ffitch
- Elena Maini
- Luca Sabatini
- Gareth Tracey
LMS-HIMR Research Schools aim to provide training for young researchers in core areas of mathematics. Students and post-docs can meet a number of leading experts in the topic as well as other young researchers working in related areas.
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