Trimester Seminar
Venue: HIM lecture hall, Poppelsdorfer Allee 45 (or in the garden)
every Tuesday:
13:30 - 15:00 Karen Vogtmann: Seminar for students only
Wednesday, September 16
15:00 Hjorth: Descriptive set theory and equivalence relations
Thursday, September 17
9:00 Przytycki: Introduction to complexes of groups
Friday, September 18
10:00 Rigidite: Etats Generaux
Tuesday, September 22
9:00 Przytycki: A Counterexample to Atiyah’s Conjecture (after Tim Austin)
15:00 Asger Törnquist: Borel reducibility
Wednesday, September 23
15:00 Tobias Hartnick: Cohomology of Lie groups
Thursday, September 24
9:00 Clara Löh: Simplicial Volume
15:00 Irene Peng: What is coarse differentiation
Tuesday, September 29
15:00 Wolfgang Steimle: Rigidity and algebraic K-theory (concerning the Borel conjecture)
Wednesday, September 30
10:00 Presentation and discussion of open problems related to rigidity
Wednesday, October 7
15:00 Jose Manuel Higes: Large scale dimensions for beginners
Thursday, October 8
10:00 Wolfgang Lück: An introduction to topological rigidity
15:00 Jim Davis: Introduction to the Novikov Conjecture
Friday, October 9
10:00 Michael Joachim: An introduction to the Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg Conjecture
Monday, October 19
15:00 George Willis: Superrigidity with general locally compact targets
Wednesday, October 21
15:00 Diarmuid Crowley: On the classification of embeddings of smooth 4-manifolds in 7-space
Thursday, October 22
15:00 Qayum Khan: Rigidity of connected sums of certain 4-manifolds
Tuesday, October 27
15:00 Adam Mole: An Introduction to Relatively Hyperbolic Groups
Wednesday, December 2
10:00 Kim Inkang: Rigidity vs flexibility in symmetric spaces
Wednesday, December 9
10:00 Ian Hambleton: Coarse geometry and P. A. Smith theory
Further talks were given by Caprace (Kac-Moody groups), Fabig (Assembly maps), Hartnick (Bounded cohomology), Bader (Ergodic actions), Weinberger (Topological Rigidity), Sauer (Measure equivalence), Chatterjee (Algebraic Groups), Ruping (CAT(0) properties of diagram groups), Epstein (Orbit equivalence), Hjorth (Descriptive Set Theory), and Przytycki (Complexes of groups).