Vanderbilt Colloquium Series
Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics
July 13-17, 2026
Nashville, TN
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Sahana Balasubramanya
Lafayette College
Acylindricity in Higher Rank
Mladen Bestvina
University of Utah
Median Structures, local cubulations, and foliations
Ursula Hamenstädt
University of Bonn
A tale about the mapping class group
Dawid Kielak
University of Oxford
Fibring of Manifolds and Groups
Alex Lubotzky
Weizmann Institute
Group Approximation: Challenges, Successes and Failures