Speaker

:

Prof. Venkataramana

Affiliation

:

TIFR, Mumbai
 

Subject Area

:

Mathematics

Venue

:

Lecture Hall - I, Dept of Mathematics

Time

:

4.00 pm

Date  

:

December 15, 2006 (Friday)

Title

:

On Rigid Subgroups of semi-simple Lie Groups

Hyman Bass has asked whether linear groups of integral
representation type are arithmetic groups. We confirm this
in a large number of cases (though counterexamples are
known in general).