Conference

The conference will take place Monday, June 25 - Friday, June 29, 2012.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9:00
Farrell
Higson
Hamenstädt
Weinberger
Adem
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
10:20
Bartels
Yu
Cortiñas
Hambleton
Williams
11:20
Ziegler
Kochloukova
Bestvina
Vogtmann
Cappell
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
14:00
Schick
Januszkiewicz
Sauer
15:00
Friedl
Thom
Guirardel
Bridson
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
☼ BMS Sommerfest ☼


Conference Dinner

All talks will take place at the 'ZIB-Hörsaal' (see Location).

Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Equivariant K-theory and Spaces of Commuting Elements in a Compact Lie Group
Arthur Bartels (Universität Münster)
Geometric conditions that imply the Farrell-Jones Conjecture
Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah, Salt Lake City)
Projections to free factors
Martin Bridson (University of Oxford)
Discrete groups: A story of geometry, complexity, and imposters
Sylvain Cappell (Courant Institute, New York University)
Symmetries and Rigidities of Aspherical Manifolds
Guillermo Cortiñas (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Operator ideals and assembly maps in K-theory
Tom Farrell (SUNY, Binghamton)
Twisted doubles and negative curvature
Stefan Friedl (Universität zu Köln)
Minimal genus surfaces in 4-manifolds with a free circle action
Vincent Guirardel (Institut de Recherche en Mathématiques de Rennes)
Solvable subgroups of interval exchange tranformations
Ian Hambleton (McMaster University, Hamilton)
Co-compact discrete group actions and the assembly map
Ursula Hamenstädt (Universität Bonn)
Topological properties of surface bundles over surfaces
Nigel Higson (Penn State University)
Baum-Connes versus Farrell-Jones
Tadeusz Januszkiewicz (Mathematical Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Fundamental groups of blowups
Dessislava Kochloukova (State University of Campinas)
Asymptotics of homology groups in finitely presented residually free groups
Roman Sauer (Universität Regensburg)
Growth of Betti numbers in a tower of finite covers
Thomas Schick (Universität Göttingen)
The topology of positive scalar curvature
Andreas Thom (Universität Leipzig)
Entropy, Determinants, and $L^2$-Torsion
Karen Vogtmann (Cornell University, Ithaca)
Outer space for right-angled Artin groups
Shmuel Weinberger (University of Chicago)
Multiaxial unitary group actions
Bruce Williams (University of Notre Dame)
Disassembled index theorems
Guoliang Yu (Vanderbilt University, Nashville)
The Novikov conjecture and geometry of groups
Günter M. Ziegler (Freie Universität Berlin)
Equivariant Topology of Configuration Spaces

Summer School and Conference at Freie Universität Berlin

June 18 - 22, 2012, Summer School
June 25 - 29, 2012, Conference

Venue:     Zuse Institute Berlin
Supported by:

Berlin Mathematical School
Berlin Mathematical School
SFB 647: Raum - Zeit - Materie
Topology and Groups - Berlin 2012
is a satellite event of the
6th European Congress of Mathematics

6th European Congress of Mathematics
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