François Thilmany

Owl
Ansgar, one of the great horned owls of UCSD.
I am currently FWO postdoc at the KU Leuven, under the supervision of Gábor Szabó.

Previously, I was a postdoc in the team of Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, and before that, a graduate student at UCSD. My PhD advisor was Alireza Salehi Golsefidy.

Contact

Departement Wiskunde
Celestijnenlaan 200B
3001 Leuven (Heverlee)
België

francois.thilmany(at)kuleuven(dot)be

Research

  1. With Amir Mohammadi and Alireza Salehi Golsefidy, Diameter of homogeneous spaces: an effective account (on arXiv, in Mathematische Annalen)
  2. With Marston Conder, Alex Lubotzky and Jeroen Schillewaert, Constructing highly regular expanders from hyperbolic Coxeter groups (on arXiv, in Transactions of the AMS)
  3. With Lam Pham, Arithmetic groups and the Lehmer conjecture (on arXiv, in Israel Journal of Mathematics)
  4. Lattices of minimal covolume in SL(n,R) (Mathematica file, class numbers script, on arXiv, in Proceedings of the LMS)

Activities

KUL–UCL reading seminar on non-commutative ergodic theory (Spring 2023)
UGent–UCL reading group on Hecke algebras and Kazhdan–Lusztig theory (2023)

Teaching

LMAT2930 (Automne 2023)
Past links