In this talk we will review the problem of sharpness in percolation, tracing its origins back to the seminal works of Menshikov, Grimmett-Marstrand and Aizenman-Barsky, which successfully settled the question in the context of Bernoulli independent percolation. Then we will present some recent advancements on the field, which have opened up the possibility of investigating dependent percolation models. Special emphasis will be given to the Interpolation technique, which has proved itself very effective. In particular, it has been used to establish the sharpness for Interlacements Percolation, a model introduced by Sznitman with notoriously intricate dependencies.

This talk is based on a joint work with Duminil-Copin, Goswami, Rodriguez and Severo

Let K be a non-archimedean field of mixed characteristic (0,p), and let L be a finite extension of
the p-adic numbers contained in K. The speaker is interested in the continuous representations of a
given L-analytic group G in locally convex (usually infinite dimensional) topological vector spaces over K.
This is, up to technicalities, equivalent to studying certain topological modules over the locally
analytic distribution algebra D(G,K) of G. But doing algebra with topological objects is hard!
In this talk, we present an excellent remedy, found by Schneider and Teitelbaum in the early 2000s.