GRAZP

The centrepiece of the workshop will consist of the following three minicourses:

An update on the current state of the Zimmer program (David Fisher, Rice University)
Actions of lattices on geometric and Furstenberg boundaries (Mitul Islam, Universität Heidelberg and Thang Nguyễn, Florida State University)
Centralizer rigidity (Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago)

In addition to the minicourses there will be three 75' morning talks to complement the minicourses and seven 45' afternoon talks. Monday afternoon there will be two sessions of lightning talks.

Morning speakers:

Danijela Damjanovíc (KTH) [abstract]
Kathryn Mann (Cornell University) [abstract]
Karin Melnick (Université de Luxembourg) [abstract]

Afternoon speakers:

Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute) [abstract]
Aaron Brown (Northwestern University) [abstract]
Viveka Erlandsson (University of Bristol) [abstract]
Homin Lee (Northwestern University) [abstract]
Andrés Navas (Universidad de Santiago de Chile) [abstract]
Maria Beatrice Pozzetti (Universität Heidelberg) [abstract]
Wouter Van Limbeek (University of Illinois, Chicago) [abstract]

Lightning talks speakers:

Here is the complete schedule, lightning talks included. The talks will be in the Centro Polivalente, very near the Hotel Isolabella. If you have not registered on Sunday evening you can do it on Monday morning at 9:00am in the Centro Polivalente. Please check the map of the island to see how to get there. (Here is also a picture of the Centro Polivalente during a talk of the European Federalist Movement: there were not whiteboards as we have bought them after the picture was taken.)

The conference will run from Monday, September 11th at 9:30am (begin of first minicourse) until Saturday, September 16th at 11:30am.