Workshop on Algebraic, Geometric and Probabilistic Aspects of Amenability
June 18 - July 13, 2007

Schedule of lectures for Week 3 (July 2 - July 6)

• Monday, July 2, 2007
  11:00 - 11:50: Dave Witte Morris (Lethbridge): Some discrete groups that cannot act on 1-dimensional manifolds, I
  Abstract: We will see that it is easy to give an algebraic characterization of the amenable groups that have nontrivial action on the real line. The course will then discuss relations between amenability, the Furstenberg boundary, and actions of lattices on 1-dimensional manifolds (or other spaces). Many questions remain open.
  15:00 - 15:50: Misha Gromov (IHES, Courant): Linearized isoperimetry
  16:10 - 17:00: Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (Berkeley): Aspects of free analysis
• Tuesday, July 3, 2007
  11:00 - 11:50: Dave Witte Morris, II
  15:00 - 15:50: Francois Ledrappier (Notre Dame): Linear drift and the Poisson boundary for random walks
  16:10 - 17:00: Richard Sharp (Manchester): Amenability and critical exponents for groups of isometries
• Wednesday, July 4, 2007
  11:00 - 11:50: Dave Witte Morris, III
  15:00 - 15:50: Christoph Pittet (Marseille): Spectral density near zero of Laplace operators on finitely generated groups
  16:10 - 17:00 Todor Tsankov (Caltech): Profinite actions and amenable representations
• Thursday, July 5, 2007
  11:00 - 11:50: Dave Witte Morris, IV
  15:00 - 15:50: Jean Renault (Orleans): Semi-groups of local homeomorphisms and cross-products
  16:10 - 17:00: Gilles Pisier (Texas A&M, Paris-6): Amenability and similarity problems for groups and operator algebras
• Friday, July 6, 2007
  11:00 - 11:50: Dave Witte Morris, V
  15.00 - 15.50: Tatiana Nagnibeda (Geneva): Percolation and amenability
  16:10 - 17:00: Andrzej Hulanicki (Wroclaw): Functional calculi for convolution operators on a discrete, periodic, solvable group

All lectures take place in the ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall

Anna Erschler, Vadim Kaimanovich, Klaus Schmidt

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