Totally Disconnected Locally Compact Groups:
Local to Global
Local to Global
Program
All talks take place in room SRZ 216/217 of the Seminarraumzentrum.
Monday, October 9
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration on the ground floor of the highrise building |
| 9:30-10:30 | George Willis, University of Newcastle Contraction groups and the scale |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | André Nies, University of Auckland Representing totally disconnected, locally compact groups by countable structures |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 | Alain Valette, University of Neuchâtel Limits of Cartan subgroups in the Chabauty space of SLn(Qp) |
| 2:30-3:00 | Coffee break |
| 3:00-4:00 | Michal Doucha, Czech Academy of Sciences Groups acting generically on the Cantor space |
| 4:00-5:00 | Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Texas A&M University Groups from groupoids |
| 5:30- | Reception in the lounge outside of SRZ 216/217 |
Tuesday, October 10
| 9:30-10:30 | Yuhei Suzuki, Hokkaido University C*-simplicity of discrete extensions |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Colin Reid, University of Newcastle Boundary-2-transitive actions on trees |
| 12:00-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:00 | Stephan Tornier, University of Newcastle A characterisation of discrete (P)-closed groups acting on trees |
| 3:00-3:30 | Coffee break |
| 3:30-4:30 | Rögnvaldur Möller, University of Iceland Graphs of group actions |
| 4:30-5:30 | Stefaan Vaes, KU Leuven Measure equivalence embeddings of free groups and free group factors |
Wednesday, October 11
| 9:30-10:30 | Matteo Vannacci, University of the Basque Country Random subgroups in direct products of hereditarily just infinite groups |
| 10:30-11:00 | Photo + coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Benjamin Klopsch, University of Düsseldorf Hausdorff dimension in finitely generated pro-p groups - old and new |
| 12:00-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00- | Free afternoon |
| 7:00- | Banquet at Mimigernaford |
Thursday, October 12
| 9:30-10:30 | Todor Tsankov, University of Lyon 1 Gleason complete flows of locally compact groups |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Piotr Nowak, IMPAN Coboundary expanders and Gromov hyperbolicity |
| 12:00-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:00 | Problem session |
| 3:00-3:30 | Coffee break |
| 3:30-4:30 | Sven Raum, University of Potsdam On the unitary representation theory of groups acting on buildings of indefinite type |
| 4:30-5:30 | Sebastian Bischof, University of Gießen Groups of Kac-Moody type over F2 |
Friday, October 13
| 9:30-10:30 | Thomas Weigel, Università di Milano-Bicocca On some Dirichlet series associated to totally disconnected, locally compact groups |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Waltraud Lederle, UC Louvain Boomerang subgroups |
| 12:00- | Lunch |