Program
All talks take place in room SRZ 216/217 of the Seminarraumzentrum and are 45 minutes in length.
Monday, November 28
9:00-9:30 | Registration |
9:30-10:15 | Ursula Hamenstädt, University of Bonn Random walks on hyperbolic groups, flows and volumes |
10:15-10:45 | Coffee break |
10:45-11:30 | Nicolás Matte Bon, Université Lyon 1 Spaces of actions on the real line |
11:45-12:30 | Josh Frisch, École Normale Supérieure Amenable Automorphism groups of low complexity subshifts |
12:30-2:30 | Lunch |
2:30-3:15 | Petr Naryshkin, University of Münster Group extensions preserve almost finiteness |
3:15-3:45 | Coffee break |
3:45-4:30 | Bruno Duchesne, Université Paris-Saclay Topological dynamics of the isometry group of the infinite dimensional hyperbolic space |
4:45-5:30 | Artem Dudko, Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences From invariant ergodic measures to indecomposable characters on full groups |
5:30- | Reception in the lounge outside of SRZ 216/217 |
Tuesday, November 29
9:30-10:15 | Uri Bader, Weizmann Institute of Science Higher property T of arithmetic lattices, applications and conjectures |
10:15-10:45 | Coffee break |
10:45-11:30 | François Le Maître, Université Paris Cité On the spaces of subgroups of Baumslag-Solitar groups |
11:45-12:30 | Aleksandra Kwiatkowska, University of Münster A compact connected space approximated by finite graphs with confluent epimorphisms |
12:30-2:30 | Lunch |
2:30-3:15 | Sebastián Barbieri, Universidad de Santiago de Chile Self-simulable groups |
3:15-3:45 | Coffee break |
3:45-4:30 | Mehrdad Kalantar, University of Houston On the ideal structure of C*-algebras generated by covariant representations |
Wednesday, November 30
9:30-10:15 | Cyril Houdayer, Université Paris-Saclay The noncommutative factor theorem for lattices in product groups |
10:15-10:45 | Coffee break |
10:45-11:30 | Robin Tucker-Drob, University of Florida Amenable subrelations of treed equivalence relations and the Paddle-ball lemma |
11:45-12:30 | Anush Tserunyan, McGill University Witnessing nonamenability via weight-maximal subforests |
12:30-12:40 | Group photo |
12:40- | Lunch and free afternoon |
6:00- | Banquet at Mimigernaford [Map] |
Thursday, December 1
9:30-10:15 | Tianyi Zheng, UC San Diego Furstenberg entropy spectrum of stationary actions |
10:15-10:45 | Coffee break |
10:45-11:30 | Amandine Escalier, University of Münster Building prescribed quantitative orbit equivalence |
11:45-12:30 | Adrien Le Boudec, ENS Lyon Commensurated subgroups and micro-supported actions |
12:30-2:30 | Lunch |
2:30-3:15 | Yair Hartman, Ben-Gurion University Random walks and dense subgroups |
3:15-3:45 | Coffee break |
3:45-4:30 | Matthieu Joseph, Université Paris-Saclay Bounded and isometric orbit equivalence |
Friday, December 2
9:30-10:15 | Bachir Bekka, University of Rennes 1 Spectral theory of groups of automorphisms of solenoids and nilmanifolds |
10:15-10:45 | Coffee break |
10:45-11:30 | Timothée Marquis, UC Louvain Hyperfiniteness of boundary actions of hyperbolic groups |
11:45-12:30 | Alon Dogon, Weizmann Institute of Science Hyperlinearity versus flexible Hilbert-Schmidt stability for property (T) groups |
12:30- | Lunch |