François Thilmany

Owl
Ansgar, one of the great horned owls of UCSD.
I am currently chargé de recherches (postdoc) of the FNRS.
I work at the Université catholique de Louvain in the team of Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace.

Previously, I was a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego.
My PhD advisor was Alireza Salehi Golsefidy.

Contact

CYCL B.321
Institut de recherche en mathématique et physique (IRMP)
Université catholique de Louvain
2 Chemin du Cyclotron / L7.01.02
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgique

francois.thilmany(at)uclouvain(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