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Dan Maoz

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Tel Aviv University
Dan Maoz is a professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University. His research interests include active galactic nuclei, gravitational lensing, and supernovae.
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Ron Siegel

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Northwestern University
Ron is a professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University. His research interests are microeconomic theory, applied microeconomic theory, and game theory.

Asymptotic Group Theory

[RG #79] Asymptotic Group Theory

February 15 - August 15, 2000

Organizers:

Avinoam Mann (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Aner Shalev (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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This research group will explore the following topics:

Infinite groups:
- Branch groups and automata groups, their subgroups, representations, presentations, and subgroup growth
- Zeta functions of nilpotent groups
- Rigid groups
- Redidual properties of the modular group

Finite groups:
- Asymptotic aspects of finite simple groups, and probabilistic aspects in particular
- Generation, and random generation, of finite simple groups
- Algorithms for matrix groups

 

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Sharon Zuckerman

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sharon is a professor in the Institute for Archaeology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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David Tene

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Weekly Seminar: Cultural Brokerage in Pre-modern Islam

We are pleased to invite you to join the weekly seminars of the research group “Cultural Brokerage in Pre-modern Islam” at the Israeli Institute of Advanced Studies of Jerusalem.

 

The group consists of researchers from Israel and abroad whose research focuses on various aspects of cultural agency in the Islamic world between the seventh and fifteenth centuries.

 

For more information about the group, please see here.

 

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Roy Meshulam

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Technion
Roy is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Technion. His research interests are: applications of topology to combinatorics.
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Hannah Cotton

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hannah Cotton is a professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests are: Tacitus; Papyrology from the Judean Desert; Epigraphy from Judaea-Palaestina from Alexander the Great to Muhammad.