This talk, based on joint work with Francesco Cattafi, presents an extension of the classical correspondence between vector bundles and principal bundles to the Lie groupoid setting. To achieve this, we introduced the notion of a PB-groupoid with a structural Lie 2-groupoid, establishing a correspondence between VB-groupoids and PB-groupoids. This framework enhances our understanding of VB-groupoids, which play a fundamental role in Poisson geometry, and provides a natural perspective on the tangent space of smooth symmetries.

A Harish-Chandra module is the algebraic « skeleton » of an irreducible continuous representation of a real reductive group. For a given Harish-Chandra module there are typically many continuous representations that correspond to it. In this talk we will explore to what extend continuous representations (in particular on Banach spaces) with the same Harish-Chandra module may differ from each other, and discuss some relations to automorphic forms. (This is joint work with Joseph Bernstein, Pritam Ganguly, Bernhard Krötz and Eitan Sayag.)

La variété de Rankin-Selberg est la variété homogène sphérique X=(GL_n x GL_{n+1}) / GL_n, définie sur un corps K. Dans cet exposé, on s’intéressera à différentes notions de spectres associées à X. Pour K un corps local de caractéristique zéro, il s’agira de déterminer l’ensemble des sous-représentations irréductibles de l’espace des fonctions lisses sur X. Je donnerai alors la réponse pour celles qui sont unitaires, complétant des travaux de K.Y. Chan, C. Chen et R. Chen. Pour K un corps global, j’expliquerai comment le spectre de X s’interprète en termes d’une décomposition spectrale automorphe de séries thêta, dont je donnerai ensuite une description explicite. Dans les deux cas, la méthode repose sur l’observation que les résidus des intégrales Zeta de Rankin-Selberg produisent des périodes sur le spectre non-générique.

Factorization homology can be used to assign functorial invariants to surfaces, starting from a braided monoidal category. If this category is obtained by deforming a symmetric monoidal category, this deformation can be tracked through factorization homology. Applying this to the cases of the Drinfeld-Jimbo quantum groups and Drinfeld’s quasi-triangular quasi-Hopf algebras, we obtain the  Fock-Rosly and the Alekseev-Malkin-Meinrenken bivectors as well as their quantizations, in terms of fusion and skein theory. Based on joint work with Eilind Karlsson, Corina Keller and Lukas Mueller [arxiv:2410.12516].

Let G be a Lie group whose Lie algebra carries an Ad-invariant, nondegenerate symmetric pairing. Then its classifying space has a 2-shifted symplectic structure. In the first part of the talk, I will present concrete models for this structure coming from differential geometry and mathematical physics. In the second part, I will study the analogue of Lagrangian submanifolds and show their relation to Poisson and Dirac structures. This talk is based on joint work with Chenchang Zhu, and with Daniel Álvarez and Henrique Bursztyn.

On introduit une version quantitative de la cohomologie polynomiale des groupes et on montre qu’elle coïncide avec la cohomologie de groupes classique sous des hypothèses de remplissage polynomial. Dans cet exposé on présentera une ou deux applications de ce résultat, en fonction du temps.
1) On montre que les nombres de Betti des groupes nilpotents sont invariants par équivalence mesurable L^p, à partir d’un p assez grand explicite.
2) On obtient des nouvelles annulations de cohomologie unitaire et banachique pour des réseaux non uniformes dans des groupes de Lie simples de rang 1.

On présentera dans un premier temps le cadre mathématique développé pour la conception du chiffrement symétrique moderne, cadre basé sur la notion de transformée de Fourier booléenne. Dans une seconde partie, on présentera quelques résultats qu’on a obtenus ces dernières années sur les attaques par canaux cachés sur ces chiffrement et basés aussi sur une approche spectrale (Travaux en collaboration avec H. Belbachir, S. Guilley, Ph. Guillot, M. Mahar et M. Ouladj).

In 1996 Gilles Carron introduced the notion of nonparabolic operators at infinity and showed that such operators are Fredholm in the usual sense. The question that we could ask ourselves is: can we extend the notion of Carron to $\Gamma$-operators on Galois coverings and still have a notion of Fredholmness upstairs ?

In this talk we will first introduce the notion of an $\mathcal{N}\Gamma$-Hilbert space as introduced by Wolfgang Lück in 1997. Then, we will introduce the notion of $\Gamma$-Fredholm operators defined between $\mathcal{N}\Gamma$-Hilbert spaces. And finally, the goal of the presentation is to define nonparabolic $\Gamma$-near infinity operators and show how they induce $\Gamma$-Fredholmness on admissible domains.

La construction des nombres surréels de Conway donne également une nouvelle approche aux nombres réels, que je qualifierais de « quantique », opposée à  l’approche « usuelle », que je qualifierais de « classique ». J’essaierai d’expliquer cette opposition « quantique-classique » en la mettant dans le contexte de la théorie des ensembles (je résumerai en partie mon cours « Ensembles et nombres » que je donne actuellement dans le cadre de notre école doctorale). Cette séance se veut plus un forum de discussion qu’une présentation formelle de résultats : le sujet du « quantique » est pour ainsi dire la musique de fond du travail pour beaucoup d’entre nous, et il me semble intéressant de poser et de discuter des questions sur ce fond. 

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A common question for geometric structures is that of rigidity. Infinitesimally rigidity is often controlled by the vanishing of a cohomology group. A common question then becomes when infinitesimal rigidity actually implies rigitidy. In this talk we discuss the case of regular foliations.

In the first part we define the terms involved and give an overview of the current state of the art. Moreover, we highlight a relation with the rigidity of group actions.

One encounters two issues in the literature. Many results require the foliation to have compact leaves and there is a general lack of examples.

In the second part of the talk, we take a step towards addressing those issues, by outlining a construction of infinitesimally rigid foliations with dense leaves. This is based on joint work with Stephane Geudens.

In this talk I will introduce Quantum Field Theory, its Path Integral formulation, and Segal’s Axioms. Then I will indicate some recent progress on rigorous construction of some concrete models using probability. After that I slightly extend Segal’s framework and show how it can be related to a useful physical quantity called “entanglement entropy”, where I suggest a geometric way of rigorously deriving relevant formulae based on recent works of the speaker and B. Estienne (2501.19014).

The geometry of the flag manifold G/P associated to a parabolic subgroup P of a semisimple Lie group G gives rise to a G-equivariant complex of elliptic operators (the BGG complex) which satisfy the property of maximal hypoellipticity, as shown by the work of Dave and Haller. In the case of the group SU(n,1), the BGG complex is the Rumin complex associated to the contact structure on the sphere S^{2n-1}. We shall describe the quaternionic analogue (i.e. for G=Sp(n,1)), and compute the bundles and operators involved in the BGG complex thanks to the Kostant theorem of 1961 (generalized by Cap and Slovak) on the cohomology of the maximal nilpotent subalgebra of a parabolic subalgebra of a semisimple Lie algebra.
We shall also explain that, in the context of Non Commutative Geometry, the BGG complexes are a crucial ingredient for the construction of the so called Kasparov gamma-element, which is the obstruction to the subjectivity of the Baum-Connes map.

The phenomenon known as ‘the Mackey analogy’ is a correspondance between the tempered dual of a Lie group $G$ and the unitary dual of its associated motion group $G_0$.  The precise statement, formulated and proven by Higson in the case of complex groups, and by Afgoustidis in the general case of real groups, has long been known to be intimately connected to the Connes-Kasparov isomorphism relating the K-theory of the reduced C$^\ast$-algebras of $G$ and $G_0$ via a deformation argument.
In this talk, I will report on joint work with Higson and Román, aimed at understanding the Mackey analogy directly at the level of the group C$^\ast$-algebras.  The main result is an embedding of the C$^\ast$-algebra of $G_0$ into the reduced C$^\ast$-algebra of $G$, which is proven to characterize the bijection of Afgoustidis and to induce the Connes-Kasparov isomorphism.

Anton Kapustin, Nikita Sopenko and others have studied the group of “locally generated automorphisms” of a UHF C*-algebra whose matrix algebra factors are labelled by the points of a coarse space.  This talk will be about a related Lie algebra of “locally generated derivations.”  Specifically it will be about the problem of computing the homology of this Lie algebra.  I shall describe a set of techniques that may be employed to solve the problem, at least for lattices in Euclidean space and similar spaces. Some are from the coarse Baum-Connes conjecture, and some, from homological algebra, are much older. This is joint work with Tsuyoshi Kato.

We construct a Poisson algebra bundle whose distributional sections are suitable to represent multilocal observables in classical field theory. To do this, we work with vector bundles over the unordered configuration space of a manifold M and consider the structure of a 2-monoidal category given by the usual (Hadamard) tensor product of bundles and a new (Cauchy) tensor product which provides a symmetrized version of the usual external tensor product of vector bundles on M.

In « $L_\infty$-algebras and higher analogues of Dirac structures and Courant algebroids » (arXiv:1003.1004), Marco Zambon constructed an explicit $L_\infty$-morphism between the Courant $r=1$-Lie algebra of a smooth manifold $M$, twisted by a closed 2-form $\sigma$, and the untwisted Courant $r=2$-Lie algebra of $M$. He left open the question of whether similar canonical $L_\infty$-morphisms exist in higher degrees — that is, between the Courant $r$-Lie algebra twisted by a closed $(r+1)$-form $\sigma$ and the untwisted Courant $(r+1)$-Lie algebra. In this talk, we present a general framework that naturally accounts for the existence of such morphisms for arbitrary $r$. This is joint work with Domenico Fiorenza.