Talia Fernós
Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor

University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Mathematics


Contact Information:

office: MS 6228

e-mail: talia@math.ucla.edu

snail mail: 6356 Math Sciences
                      Los Angeles, CA 90095-001

office phone: (310) 825-4980

fax: (310) 206-6673     



Teaching:

        Math 123: Non-Euclidean Geometries





Research Interests:

*Group Theoretic Rigidity: specifically Relative Property (T) and Property (T)

*Measurable Group Theory: (weak) Orbit Equivalence, Group Cohomology, $\ell^2$-Betti Numbers

*Geometric Group Theory: Isometric actions on non-positively curved spaces, Property (FA), Mapping Class groups, Teichmüller space, ...

*Others: Dynamics, Number Theory, Algebraic Groups






Publications:

    Relative Property (T) and Linear Groups
          Les Annales de L’Institut Fourier
          56 no. 6 (2006), p. 1767-1804
               * arXiv link
               * AIF link
         

  Relative Property (T), Linear Groups, and Applications
          Ph.D. Thesis
          Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago

              


Downloads:
       Curriculum Vitæ           

       Research Statement 

       Slides from "Some New Examples of Group Pairs with Relative Property (T)"

       Slides from "From Expander Graphs to Robust Networks" - a general audience talk

 


Art:

      Where Science Meets Art

      Lee Bontecou

      The Disturbing Orlan
     

            


Pictures:

    Album 1

    Album 2


Fun!

Click Here to view the Relative Property (T) logo designed by Sheila Herman. To receive a sticker, send a self addressed stamped envelope to my departmental address above. Or, if you know me, just ask!


And Click here for a funny movie about how not to multiply two numbers together.