Mini-courses of Y. de Cornulier and R. Tessera

Yves de Cornulier and Romain Tessera are world renowned experts in geometric group theory.  
The Independent University of Moscow and the Faculty of Mathematics at the NRU HSE organize a series of lectures by Professors Cornulier and Tessera. 
The lectures will take place at the IUM (11 B. Vlas'evskiy per.), room 303. 
See below for the abstracts.
 
Mon, September 9
(17.30–19.10) Cornulier
(19.20–21.00) Tessera
 
Wed, September 11
(17.30–19.10) Cornulier
(19.20–21.00) Tessera
 
Thu, September 12
(19.20–21.00) Tessera
 
Fri, September 16
(17.30–19.10) Cornulier

Geometry and structure of locally compact groups.
 Romain Tessera
 
While for decades most people were mainly focusing on the large scale geometry of infinite discrete groups, 
Abels and a few others started back in the seventies to extend the scope to more general locally compact groups. 
More recently this point of view has regained importance due to new surprising results obtained by various authors 
such as Caprace, Cornulier, Monod, and myself. What makes this subject particularly exiting is the fact that as 
opposed to the jungle of discrete groups, ``non discrete locally compact groups" are in a way much more structured 
(think of connected Lie groups). In these lectures, we shall illustrate and try to justify this rather imprecise statement.

 Commensurating actions and CAT(0) cube complexes
 Yves de Cornulier