GOA-qDay: Groups and Operator Algebras event

This event is aimed at Master's and PhD students and everyone else with an interest in groups and operator algebras, and functional analysis in general.

Program:

13:00 - 13:45 Adrian Ioana

Groups and von Neumann algebras
14:00 - 14:45 Cyril Houdayer

Noncommutative ergodic theory of SL_n(Z)
14:45 - 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:00 Pieter Spaas

Group stability, operator algebras and QIT
16:10 - 16:30 James Hyde

Introduction to Thompson's groups
16:40 - 17:00 Norberto Clemente Delgado Groups with the Liouville property