Schedule
(last update: August 4, 2019)
Table of contents
Monday (August 05, 2019)
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 8:30-9:30 | Registration |
| 9:30-10:20 |
Abert, Miklos (MTA Renyi Institute) |
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Coffee/Tea |
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| 11:00-11:50 | Nikolov, Nikolay (Oxford University) "2D problems in groups" |
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Lunch |
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| 13:30-14:20 | Khukhro, Ana (University of Cambridge) "Geometry of finite quotients“ |
| 14:30-15:20 | Finn-Sell, Martin (Universität Wien) "The quantitative Baum—Connes conjecture for some lacunary hyperbolic groups“ |
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Coffee/Tea |
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| 16:00-16:50 | Willett, Rufus (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa) "Representation stability and topology" |
Tuesday (August 06, 2019)
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 9:30-10:20 | Elek, Gabor (Lancaster University) "Free amenable actions of nonamenable groups" |
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Coffee/Tea |
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| 11:00-11:50 | Bekka, Bachir (University of Rennes 1) "On characters of infinite groups" |
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Lunch |
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| 13:30-14:20 | Tóth, László Márton (EPFL) "Invariant Schreier decorations on unimodular random graphs" |
| 14:30-15:20 | Doucha, Michal (Czech Academy of Sciences) "Spaces of Lipschitz functions on finitely generated and Lie groups" |
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Coffee/Tea |
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| 16:00-16:50 | Open Problem Session |
Wednesday (August 07, 2019)
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 9:30-10:20 | Peterson, Jesse (Vanderbilt University) "Properly proximal groups and their von Neumann algebras“ |
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Coffee/Tea |
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| 11:00-11:50 | Nagnibeda, Tatiana (University of Geneva) "Spectral theory of groups and group actions“ |
| 11:50-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 19:00-23:00 | Dinner "Carola-Schlösschen" |
Thursday (August 08, 2019)
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 9:30-10:20 | Kerr, David (Texas A&M University) "Dynamical alternating groups, property Gamma, and inner amenability" |
|
Coffee/Tea |
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| 11:00-11:50 | Radulescu, Florin (Univ of Rome 2) "Transfering unitary representations from PSL(2,R) to PSL(2,Qp) - an operator algebra approach“ |
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Lunch |
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| 13:30-14:20 | Schneider, Friedrich Martin (Technische Universität Dresden) "The Liouville property and random walks on topological groups" |
| 14:30-15:20 | Gismatullin, Jakub (UWr) "Metric ultraproduct of groups — simplicity and amenability" |
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Coffee/Tea |
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| 16:00-16:50 | Pooya, Sanaz (Stockholm University) "The Baum-Connes assembly map via explicit examples" |
Friday (August 09, 2019)
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 9:30-10:20 | Sauer, Roman (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) "Profinite invariants of arithmetic groups" |
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Coffee/Tea |
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| 11:00-11:50 | Forough, Marzieh (Czech Academy of Sciences) "Equivariant C(X)-algebras and strongly self-absorbing dynamical systems" |
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Lunch |
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| 13:30-14:20 | Fraczyk, Mikolaj (Renyi Institute) "Co-amenability and intersections of IRS'ses" |
| 14:30-15:20 | Ozawa, Narutaka (Kyoto University) "Kazhdan's property (T) and semidefinite programming" |
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Coffee/Tea |
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Saturday (August 10, 2019)
Hiketo the Saxon Switzerland