Workshop on the Concentration Phenomenon, Transformation Groups and Ramsey Theory

October 12 - 15, 2010, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute

Description

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS AND ABSTRACTS

If you are willing to give a talk during the Workshop please suggest a title and abstract. Note that although not all participants will be able to speak, all submitted abstracts will be compiled and distributed, to facilitate the exchange of ideas. Time will also be allocated to short communications and to poster presentations.
Submission link is now closed.

Schedule

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
08:50 to 09:00	Welcome and Introductions Location:
09:00 to 09:50	Finite Ramsey theorems Slawomir Solecki, Cornell University Location:
10:00 to 10:20	The hypergraph of copies of countable homogeneous structures Claude Laflamme, University of Calgary Location:
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 11:50	Classification of nuclear C-algebras and set theory Ilijas Farah, York University Location:*
12:00 to 12:20	Concentration of maps and group actions Kei Funano Location:
12:30 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:50	Topological centres for group algebras, actions, and quantum groups Matthias Neufang, Carleton University Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 15:50	Ergodicity at identity of measure-preserving actions of Polish groups Vladimir Pestov, University of Ottawa Location:
16:00 to 17:00	Reception

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
09:00 to 09:50	Entropy of group actions on probability spaces Lewis Bowen, University of Texas, Austin Location:
10:00 to 10:20	On topological properties of the space of subgroups of a discrete group Arkady Leiderman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Location:
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 11:50	Entropy for actions of sofic groups Hanfeng Li, Harbin Engineering University Location:
12:00 to 12:20	Classes of topological similarity in Polish groups Konstantin Slutsky, Iowa State University Location:
12:30 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:50	Homeomorphic measures on a Cantor set Sergey Bezuglyi, University of Iowa Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 15:50	Topological groups with Rohlin properties Eli Glasner, Tel-Aviv University Location:

Thursday, October 14th, 2010
09:00 to 09:50	On the oscillation stability of universal metric spaces Norbert Sauer, University of Calgary Location:
10:00 to 10:20	Point realizations of near-actions of groups of isometries Aleksandra Kwiatkowska, University of Münster Location:
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 11:50	Universal flows for closed subgroups of the permutation group of the integers Lionel Nguyen Van Thé, Aix-Marseille University Location:
12:00 to 12:20	Uniform measures and ambitable groups Jan Pachl, The Fields Institute Location:
12:30 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:50	Unitary representations of oligomorphic groups Todor Tsankov, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 15:50	Minimal hyperspace actions of Homeo(bw\w) Yonatan Gutman, Polish Academy of Sciences Location:

Friday, October 15th, 2010
09:00 to 09:50	From discrete to continuous arguments in logic. What is needed and why Jose Iovino, University of Texas at Arlington and University of Texas at San Antonio Location:
10:00 to 10:20	Posets with linear orderings Miodrag Sokic, California Institute of Technology Location:
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 11:50	Applications of continuous logic to the theory of Polish groups Julien Melleray, Université Lyon 1 Location:
12:00 to 12:20	Ramsey degrees of boron tree structures Jakub Jasinski Location:
12:30 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:50	Density Ramsey theory of trees Pandelis Dodos, University of Athens Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 15:50	Continuity of the asymptotic entropy Vadim Kaimanovich, University of Ottawa Location: