Perspectives In Ergodic Theory RandOmness and GeometrY

Programme

For the abstracts, see here

All talks will take place in room no. 1093, 1^st floor.

Monday 12^th

• 8.30 – 9.25 Registration (ground floor)
• 9.25 – 9.30 Mikołaj Frączyk – Introduction
• 9.30 – 10.30 Roman Sauer, On an uncountable family of simple Kazhdan groups in dimension 16
• 10.35 – 11.00 Coffee break (ground floor, conference hall A+B)
• 11.00 – 12.00 Ben Hayes, Coamenability and strong ergodicity
• 12.00 – 13.00 Alon Dogon, Are higher-rank lattices stable and are they hyperlinear?
• 13.00 – 14.30 Lunch (We encourage you to visit the local restaurants)
• 14.30 – 15.30 Tanja Eisner, Weighted ergodic theorems
• 15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break (ground floor, conference hall A+B)
• 16.00 – 17.00 Damien Gaboriau, Dynamics on the space of subgroups
• 17.00 – 20.00 Welcome Reception (ground floor, conference hall A+B)

Tuesday 13^th

• 9.30 – 10.30 Anna Wienhard (MPI MiS), Compactifications of (locally) symmetric spaces and ideal Poisson Voronoi tesselations
• 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break (ground floor, conference hall A+B)
• 11.00 – 12.00 Arie Levit, Non-uniform higher-rank lattices are character rigid
• 12.00 – 13.00 Inhyeok Choi, Invariant measures for subgroups of mapping class groups and Anosov groups
• 13.00 – 14.30 Lunch (We encourage you to visit the local restaurants)
• 14.30 – 15.30 Ursula Hamenstädt Markov graphs, cube complexes and L^p cohomology
• 15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break (ground floor, conference hall A+B)
• 16.00 – 17.00 Problem session

Wednesday 14^th

• 9.30 – 10.30 Miklos Abert, The Uniform Random Walk on graphs, loop processes and graphings
• 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break (ground floor, conference hall A+B)
• 11.00 – 12.00 François Baccelli, Indistinguishability of Connected Components and Generations in Directed Forests on Unimodular Random Graphs
• 12.00 – 13.00 Tasmin Chu, Heavy repulsion of clusters in Bernoulli percolation
• 13.00 – 14.30 Lunch (We encourage you to visit the local restaurants)
• 14.30 – 15.30 Gabor Pete, TBA
• 15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break (ground floor, conference hall A+B)
• 16.00 – 17.00 Christian Hirsch, Optimal stationary markings

Thursday 15^th

• 9.30 – 10.30 Ali Khezeli, Products of infinite countable groups have fixed price one
• 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break (ground floor, conference hall A+B)
• 11.00 – 12.00 Konstantin Recke, Poisson--Voronoi percolation in higher rank
• 12.00 – 13.00 Emmanuel Roy, Equivariant Poisson thinnings
• 13.00 – 14.30 Lunch (We encourage you to visit the local restaurants)
• 14.30 – 19.30 Wieliczka Salt Mine Tour (Meet in the car park next to the Faculty)
• We will take a bus to the mine and return to the car park. Start at Daniłowicz Shaft, ~800 steps (380 at start), temp. 17–18ºC, comfortable shoes recommended. Tour ~2–3 hours.

Friday 16^th

• 9.30 – 10.30 Antoine Poulin, The Measure-equivalence classification of Baumslag-Solitar groups and the construction of ergodic hyperfinite subgraphs
• 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break (ground floor, conference hall A+B)
• 11.00 – 12.00 Ilya Gekhtman, Linearly growing injectivity radius in negatively curved manifolds with small critical exponent
• 12.00 – 13.30 Lunch (We encourage you to visit the local restaurants)