Lam Laurent Pham
I am currently a PhD student in Mathematics at Yale University, advised by Professors Gregory Margulis (Yale University) and Emmanuel Breuillard (University of Cambridge).
I will be a Postdoctoral Researcher at Brandeis University starting July 2019.
I am primarily interested in Lie groups, their discrete subgroups, and arithmetic groups.
Previously, I completed an M.S. in Computational & Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University (with a short stint in the Mechanical Engineering Department). Even earlier, I received an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and a Diplôme d’Ingénieur at Ecole Centrale Paris, where I studied Plasma Assisted Combustion.
Papers
| Year | Status | Title | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | In preparation | A strong Tits alternative for the affine group of the plane (Ph.D. Thesis) | |
| 2019 | In preparation | Locally commutative free groups acting on the plane | |
| 2018 | Preprint | Uniform Kazhdan constants and paradoxes of the plane | Link |
Books and translations
I enjoy translating and giving a new breath of life to old French mathematics classics by translating them into English. If you would like to work together on an old classic, please let me know!
| Year | Status | Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Forthcoming | Armand Borel | Introduction aux groupes arithmétiques |
| 1965 | In Progress | Armand Borel & Jacques Tits | Groupes réductifs |
Invited Talks
| Year | Date | Location | Seminar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Apr 8 | Yale University | Group actions and dynamics seminar |
| 2018 | Nov 23 | University of Cambridge | Discrete analysis seminar |
| 2018 | Oct 30 | Rutgers University | Number theory seminar |
| 2018 | Oct 26 | CUNY Graduate center | New York group theory seminar |
Upcoming (tentative) travel
| Year | Dates | Location | Conference Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | May 27-31 | Dynamics of Group Actions, une conférence en l’honneur des 60 ans d’Yves Benoist | Cretaro (Italy) |
| 2019 | May 19-24 | Equidistribution, Invariant Measures and Applications: A tribute to the Legacy of Marina Ratner | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) |
| 2019 | Mar 25-29 | Number Theory and Dynamics Conference | CMS, University of Cambridge (UK) |
| 2019 | Feb 17-21 | Super Strong Approximation in Groups | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) |