New: The conference gallery.

The Mini Conference will take place at the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Gdańsk, May 24-26 2013.

Speakers

Emmanuel Breuillard (Université Paris-Sud)
Karel Dekimpe (KU Leuven)
Piotr Nowak (Uinversity of Warsaw)
Józef H. Przytycki (George Washington University, Uinversity of Gdańsk)
Błażej Szepietowski (University of Gdańsk)
Matthew Tointon (Cambridge University)

Schedule

Saturday

09.15-10.15 K. Dekimpe „R-infty property for nilpotent quotients of free groups and surface groups”

Coffee break

10.30 – 11.30 E. Breuillard „Approximate groups and Hilbert’s fifth problem”

Coffee break

11.45 – 12.45 P. Nowak „Poincare inequalities, rigid groups and applications”

Sunday

9.15- 10.15 B. Szepietowski , „Low dimensional linear representations of the mapping class group of a nonorientable surface”

Coffee break

10.30 – 11.30 M. Tointon „Nilpotent approximate groups”

Coffee break

11.40 – 12.40 J. Przytycki „Knots and distributive homology”

Hotels and accomodation

Dom Sportowca „Olivia”
Villa Lena
Willa Fahrenheita

Fee

The conference fee is 100 PLN.
It should be transfered to the following bank account:

Bank PEKAO S.A. IV/O Gdańsk
Account number: 35124012711111000014925388
IBAN: PL35124012711111000014925388
SWIFT: PKOPLPW
Account holder: University of Gdańsk
Comment: K502

Participants

A. Bojanowska (Warsaw University)
E. Breuillard (Orsay, Paris)
K. Dekimpe (KUL, Leuven)
J. Dere (KUL, Leuven)
A. Gasior (UMCS Lublin)
M. Halenda (Gdansk)
M. Jablonowski (Gdansk)
S. Jackowski (Warsaw University)
P. Karwasz (Gdansk)
R. Lutowski(Gdansk)
M. Mroczkowski (Gdansk)
M. Niebrzydowski (Luizjana, USA)
P. Nowak (Warsaw University)
L. Plachta (AGH, Krakow)
J. Popko (Gdansk)
J. Przytycki (Washington, USA)
W. Rosicki (Gdansk)
A. Szczepanski (Gdansk)
B. Szepietowski (Gdansk)
M. Tointon (Cambridge)

Contact

Andrzej Szczepański, aszczepa@mat.ug.edu.pl