Workshop
Date: 25 - 29 June 2018 (arrival on 24th, departure on 29th/30th)
Place: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Organizers: Alejandra Garrido, Benjamin Klopsch
Email: trees2018(remove-for-spam)@uni-duesseldorf.de
Workshop poster (pdf)
Minicourses
Volodymyr Nekrashevych (Texas A&M)
Zoran Šunič (Hofstra)
Phillip Wesolek (Binghamton) [Course notes available here]
Research talks
Yiftach Barnea (Royal Holloway)
Rostislav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M)
Adrien Le Boudec (CNRS/ENS-Lyon)
Nicolás Matté Bon (ETH Zürich)
Rögnvaldur Möller (Iceland)
Jan-Christoph Schlage-Puchta (Rostock)
Said Sidki (Brasilia)
Simon Smith (Lincoln)
Thomas Weigel (Milano-Bicocca)
George Willis (Newcastle)
John Wilson (Leipzig/Oxford)
Slides of some talks can be downloaded here
Aims and scope
The aim of the workshop is to discuss groups acting on trees, self-similar actions and dynamics, and (totally disconnected) locally compact groups, and the interactions of these topics. Three mini-courses will give introductions to the main topics. Several research talks will give an overview on recent developments.
There will be selected contributed talks and a poster session.
Events nearby
The Norddeutsches Gruppentheorie-Kolloquium (North Germany Colloquium in Group Theory) takes place this year on 29--30 June at TU Braunschweig.
Acknowledgement
The workshop is supported by the "Alexander von Humboldt Foundation", the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (GRK 2240), the "Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der HHU - GFFU" and the Mathematical Institute of the University of Düsseldorf.