Uniform exponential growth and effective Tits alternative

Seminar: 
Group Actions and Dynamics
Event time: 
Monday, November 1, 2004 - 11:30am to Sunday, October 31, 2004 - 7:00pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Tsachik Gelander
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University
Event description: 

I will describe Eskin-Mozes-Oh proof of the uniform exponential growth for linear group, and perhaps a recent result of Breuillard and me which improves EMO theorem in the special ease of subgroups of uniform lattices.