%0 Journal Article %T Growth of groups and wreath products %A Laurent Bartholdi %J Mathematics %D 2015 %I arXiv %X These are introductory notes on word growth of groups, and include a gentle presentation of wreath products as well as recent results on construction of groups of with given growth function. They are are an expanded version of a mini-course given at "Le Louverain", June 24-27, 2014. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07044v1