Colloquium Lecture "Group Rigidity - Computer-assisted Evidence", 23.05.2019
Dr. Piotr Nowak from the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences will give a lecture entitled "Group rigidity - computer-assisted evidence", 23.05.2019
Dr. Piotr Nowak received his doctoral degree at Vanderbilt University in the United States in 2008. For the next 4 years he worked at Texas A&M at College Station and at the MSRI research institute in Berkeley, California. Since 2012 he has been working in Poland at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
He is the author of over 30 articles. Together with Guoliang Yu, he published a book in 2012, which is an introduction to large-scale geometry. In the United States, he managed two grants from the National Science Foundation, and after returning to Poland, he implemented projects of the Foundation for Polish Science and the National Science Centre.
In 2016, he received his postdoctoral degree with honors from the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and received the Prime Minister's Award for this degree. Since 2016, he has been managing the ERC Starting Grant project on group rigidity and index theory. Since 2018, she has been the Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs at IMPAN.
The lecture will focus on the subject of rigid groups, which are groups having the property of a fixed point for action by affine isometries on Hilbert's spaces. This proof was made possible by the use of convex optimisation methods.
The Seminar will take place on Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 4.15 p.m. in room 134 of the main building of the Warsaw University of Technology. After the lecture, we invite you to a refreshment, during which you will be able to talk directly to the speaker.
