Thematic program "L2-invariants and their analogues in positive characteristic"  

Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas. Madrid, Spain   

February 19 - June 15, 2018   






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Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas
C/ Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15
  Campus Cantoblanco - UAM
  28049 Madrid, Spain
  www.icmat.es
  Telephone: +34 91 2999700




 

Introductory School

 

This is a two-week school for graduate students and other young researchers which are interested in, but not necessarily working on the topics of the thematic program. It will be at the beginning of the program (February 26-March, 9, 2018). The level of courses will be introductory.

Schedule for the first and second weeks

The following is the list of courses and speakers:

First week (February 26-March 2, 208)

  1. Introduction to L2-invariants I (Lukasz Grabowski)
  2. Introduction to von Neumann algebras and algebras of affiliated operators. (Jesse Peterson)
  3. Introduction to measured group theory (Damien Gaboriau)
  4. Introduction to von Neumann regular and *-regular rings (Pere Ara)
  5. Mod-p methods and the p-gradient (Andrei Jaikin) a draft of the course

Second week (March, 5-9, 2018)

  1. Introduction to L2-invariants II (Thomas Schick) Notes
  2. Groups and graph limits (Miklos Abert)
  3. Sofic groups and applications of L2-invariants (Ben Hayes) Notes
  4. Introduction to arithmetic groups and their cohomology (Steffen Kionke)
  5. Torsion homology of 3-manifolds groups (Haluk Sengun)


 Scientific committee:

Miklos Abert
(Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics)
Andrei Jaikin
(UAM-ICMAT)
Wolfgang Lück
(Hausdor Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn University)
Mark Sapir
(Vanderbilt University)
Andreas Thom
(TU Dresden)

 Local committee:

Yago Antolin
(UAM-ICMAT)
Julio Aroca
(CSIC-ICMAT)
Javier Aramayona
(UAM-ICMAT)
Andrei Jaikin
(UAM-ICMAT)
Diego López
(UAM-ICMAT)

 Contact:
   l2invariants2018@icmat.es
















 

 

 

 


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