RTG WORKSHOPS & LECTURE SERIES Thin Groups April 25 – 27, 2014 Room B844, East Hall University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI   Schedule (pdf) The conference will begin at 1:00 pm on April 25, 2014 and finish by 1:00 PM on April 27, 2014. The workshop will feature several lecture series as well as individual talks given by Emmanuel Breuillard (Orsay) Elena Fuchs (Berkeley) Shinn-Yih Huang (Yale) Alex Kontorovich (Yale) Hee Oh (Yale) Peter Sarnak (Princeton) Dale Winter (Brown) Xin Zhang (Stony Brook) Thin groups are discrete subgroups of Lie groups which are not lattices but are Zariski dense. They have found great interest and amazing applications in number theory, arithmetic combinatorics, geometry and dynamics. Topics include spectral gaps, Apollonian circle packings, strong approximation, approximate groups amongst others. Titles & Abstracts (pdf) Funding Limited funding is available for graduate students and post-docs. Please note your request on the registration form. Register for the Workshop Sponsors National Science Foundation RTG Grant 1045119 Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan For website problems, contact Webmaster