Schedule
| Time | Thursday, 6. Sept. 2018 | Friday, 7. Sept. 2018 | 
|---|---|---|
| 09.00-10.00 | Roman Sauer "Profinitess questions for L2-Betti numbers and other groups invariants"  | 
Uri Bader "How random products of matrices grow: an ergodic theoretical approach"  | 
| Coffee | ||
| 10.30-11.30 | Gabor Elek "Cantor dynamical systems and distributed algorithms"  | 
Hiroshi Ando "A family of positive type functions on the orthogonal Hilbert-Schmidt group"  | 
| 11.40-12.40 | Yasumichi Matsuzawa "Polish groups related to the unitary group of a Hilbert space"  | 
 Tim de Laat  | 
| Lunch | ||
| 15.00-16.00 | Eusebio Gardella "p-Convolution algebras of locally compact groups"  | 
Hannes Thiel "Rigidity results for group algebras"  | 
| Coffee | ||
| 16.30-17.00 | Maria Gerasimova "Unitarisability of discrete groups"  | 
Lukasz Grabowski "Approximation of groups with respect to the rank metric"  | 
| 18:00 | 
Dinner  Feldschlösschen Brauhaus  |