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All Lectures will take place in Lamoureux Hall. A map of the
University of Ottawa Campus is available here.
Monday, October 20th
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| 8:30 a.m. |
Room 124 |
Registration and coffee |
| 8:50 - 9:00 a.m. |
Room 124 |
Welcome and introduction |
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9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
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Room 124 |
S. Solecki (Urbana)
Actions of Borel groups
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| 10:30 -11:00 a.m. |
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Break |
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11:00 - 12:30 p.m.
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Room 220 |
S. Szarek (Case Western Reserve U. and
Paris VI)
The concentration of measure phenomenon and how it relates
to various ensembles of random matrices.
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| 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. |
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Lunch |
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2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
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Room 220 |
V. Pestov (Ottawa)
Uniform structures and oscillations of functions on topological
groups.
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3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
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Break
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4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
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Room 124 |
First discussion and open problem session
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Tuesday, October 21
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| 8:30 - 9:50 a.m. |
Room 106 |
V. Milman (Tel-Aviv)
Phenomena arising in high dimensions |
| 9:50 - 10:05 a.m. |
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Break |
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10:05 - 11:25 a.m
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Room 106 |
V.V. Uspenskij (Ohio)
The universal Urysohn metric space and its group of isometries.
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| 11:25 - 1:15 p.m. |
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Lunch |
| 1:15 - 2:45 p.m. |
Room 121 |
Eli Glasner (Tel-Aviv)
Universal minimal flows. |
| 2:45 - 3:15 p.m |
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Break |
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3:15 - 4:45 p.m.
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Room 121 |
T. Giordano (Ottawa)
Extremely amenable groups related to operator algebras and
ergodic theory.
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| Wednesday, October 22 |
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8:30 - 9:50 a.m.
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Room 220 |
A. Vershik (Steklov Institute, St. Petersburg)
Randomness and universality in the category of Polish spaces
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| 9:50 - 10:05 a.m. |
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Break
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10:05 - 11:25 a.m
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Room 220 |
B. Weiss (Hebrew University)
Groups of homeomorphisms with dense conjugacy classes.
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| 11:25 - 1:15 p.m. |
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Lunch
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| 1:15 - 2:45 p.m. |
Room 390 |
S. Todorcevic (Paris VII)
Structural Ramsey theory and dynamics of automorphism groups
(tentative title)
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| 2:45 - 3:15 p.m |
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Break
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3:15 - 4:30 p.m.
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Room 390 |
Second discussion and open problem session
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