Workshop on Amenability Beyond Groups
February 26 - March 17, 2007

Schedule of lectures for Week 2 (March 5 - March 9)

• Monday, March 5, 2007
  
  11:00 - 11:50: Gabor Elek: Amenability in Ring Theory, Part 1
  
  15:00 - 15:50: Alain Valette: Affine isometric actions on Hilbert spaces and amenability, Part 1
  
  
• Tuesday, March 6, 2007
  
  10:00 - 10:50: Alain Valette: Affine isometric actions on Hilbert spaces and amenability, Part 2
  
  11:00 - 11:50: Gabor Elek: Amenability in Ring Theory, Part 2
  
  15:00 - 15:50: Bernhard Kroen (Hamburg): Analogues of Cayley graphs for topological groups
  
  16:10 - 17:00: Theo Buehler (Zurich): Some homological characterizations of amenability
  
  
• Wednesday, March 7, 2007
  
  10:00 - 10:50: Gabor Elek: Amenability in Ring Theory, Part 3
  
  11:00 - 11:50: Alain Valette: Affine isometric actions on Hilbert spaces and amenability, Part 3
  
  15.00 - 15.50: Anna Erschler (Lille): TBA
  
  16.10 - 17.00: Nicolas Monod (Geneva): A simple proof of the Tarski's paradoxical decompositions
  
  
• Thursday, March 8, 2007
  
  10:00 - 10:50: Gabor Elek: Amenability in Ring Theory, Part 4
  
  11:00 - 11:50: Alain Valette: Affine isometric actions on Hilbert spaces and amenability, Part 4
  
  15.00 - 15.50: George Willis (Newcastle, Australia): Group configurations and amenability
  
  16:10 - 17:00: Keivan Mallahi-Karai (Bremen): Free semi-groups in discrete solvable groups
  
  
• Friday, March 9, 2007
  
  10:00 - 10:50: Alain Valette: Affine isometric actions on Hilbert spaces and amenability, Part 5
  
  11:00 - 11:50: Gabor Elek: Amenability in Ring Theory, Part 5
  
  15.00 - 15.50: Athanase Papadopoulos (Strasbourg): Actions of the mapping class group
  
  

All lectures take place in the ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall.

Anna Erschler
Vadim Kaimanovich
Klaus Schmidt