Workshop AGORA
Actions, Groups, OpeRator Algebras

Monday, June 14th - Thursday, June 17th, 2010.
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ENS Lyon

in Lyon (France), Ecole Normale Supérieure

Organizers: Damien Gaboriau (ENS Lyon), Cyril Houdayer (ENS Lyon)
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There will be two mini-courses, by

Adrian Ioana (Caltech-UCLA) Global dichotomy results for equivalence relations.
Jesse Peterson (Vanderbilt) Applications of closable derivations in von Neumann algebras and equivalence relations.

and confirmed talks by

Sébastien Falguières (Orléans) The representation category of every compact group is the bimodule category of a II_1 factor
Pierre Fima (KU Leuven) HNN extensions and unique group measure space decomposition of II_1 factors.
Cyril Houdayer (ENS Lyon) Structural results for type III_1 factors arising from free probability theory: absence of Cartan subalgebra.
Jean Lécureux (Lyon 1) Boundary amenability of groups acting on buildings
Julien Melleray (Lyon 1) Automatic continuity for the automorphism group of a standard probability space
Masato Mimura (Tokyo/Lausanne) Fixed-point and Kazhdan-type theorems for universal lattices on Banach spaces
Romain Tessera (ENS Lyon) Filling loops in Lie groups
Todor Tsankov (Paris 7) Unitary representations of automorphism groups

Program. The workshop will begin at 10 am on Monday, June, 14th, and is scheduled to end around noon on Thursday, June 17th.
Every morning, from Monday to Thursday: mini-course by Adrian Ioana (10h-11 am) then Jesse Peterson (11:15-12:15 am).
Every afternoon, from Monday to Wednesday: talks from 2 to 3pm, 3:15 to 4:15 pm and (if needed) 5-6 pm.
Click here for the detailed schedule.

Practical info. Lyon may be easily reached by plane, by train and by the road (boats are a possibility too but it might be slightly more complicated). You will find here directions to the Scientific Campus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

This workshop is financed by the ANR project AGORA.