Universität Bonn

Workshop: "The Farrell-Jones conjecture"


October 24-28, 2016

HIM Lecture Hall,  Poppelsdorfer Allee 45

Organizers: 

Daniel Kasprowski, Mark Ullmann, Christoph Winges, Jianchao Wu

Speakers: 

  • Grigori Avramidi (WWU Münster)
  • Arthur Bartels (WWU Münster)
  • Ulrich Bunke (Universität Regensburg)
  • Alexander Engel (Universität Regensburg)
  • Nigel Higson (Penn State University)
  • Daniel Kasprowski (Universität Bonn)
  • Wolfgang Lück (Universität Bonn)
  • Daniel Ramras (Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis)
  • Holger Reich (Freie Universität Berlin)
  • Henrik Rüping (Universität Bonn)
  • Romain Tessera (Université d'Orsay)
  • Christoph Winges (WWU Münster)
  • Xiaolei Wu (Freie Universität Berlin)

Schedule

Monday, October 24

10:30 - 11:00 Registration & Welcome coffee
11:00 - 12:00 Dan Ramras: Coassembly for representation spaces
12:00 - 14:45 Lunch break and free time
14:45 - 15:45 Nigel Higson: Isomorphism conjectures for non-discrete groups
16:00 - 16:30 Tea and cake
16:30 - 17:30 Romain Tessera: Finite decomposition complexity: an introduction
afterwards Reception

Tuesday, October 25

09:30 - 10:30 Alexander Engel: The Burghelea conjecture
10:30 - 11:00 Group photo and coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Holger Reich: Assembly maps for algebraic K-theory and topological cyclic homology (part 1)
12:00 - 14:45 Lunch break and free time
14:45 - 15:45 Holger Reich: Assembly maps for algebraic K-theory and topological cyclic homology (part 2)
16:00 - 16:30 Tea and cake
16:30 - 17:30 Xiaolei Wu: On the finiteness of the classifying space for the family of virtually cyclic subgroups

Wednesday, October 26

09:30 - 10:30 Daniel Kasprowski: On the K-theory of groups with finite decomposition complexity
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Grigori Avramidi: Topology of ends of finite volume, non-positively curved manifolds
12:00 - Lunch break, free afternoon
18:30 - Conference dinner in the Restaurant Meyer's (Clemens-August-Str. 51a)

Thursday, October 27

09:30 - 10:30 Ulrich Bunke: A motivic view of coarse homotopy theory
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Arthur Bartels: The Farrell-Jones conjecture for mapping class groups (part 1)
12:00 - 14:45 Lunch break and free time
14:45 - 15:45 Arthur Bartels: The Farrell-Jones conjecture for mapping class groups (part 2)
16:00 - 16:30 Tea and cake
16:30 - 17:30 Henrik Rüping: The Farrell-Jones conjecture and bicombings

Friday, October 28

09:30 - 10:30 Christoph Winges: On the isomorphism conjecture for Waldhausen's algebraic K-theory of spaces
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Wolfgang Lück: The group cohomology of certain crystallographic groups and applications
12:00 - Lunch break, end of workshop

Participants

Person
Affiliation
Period of stay
Paolo Aceto Renyi Institute of Mathematics
Grigori Avramidi WWU Münster
Arthur Bartels WWU Münster
Pedro Boavida de Brito University of Lisbon
Ulrich Bunke Universität Regensburg
Virgil Chan Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
Christopher Davis The University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Emanuele Dotto Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rosona Eldred Universität Münster
Alexander Engel Texas A&M University
Gerrit Herrmann Universität Regensburg
Gijs Heuts Copenhagen University
Nigel Higson Penn State University
Geoffroy Horel MPIM
Holger Kammeyer Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Aditi Kar University of Southampton
Daniel Kasprowski MPIM
Min Hoon Kim Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
Steffen Kionke Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Robin Loose Universität Münster
Wolfgang Lück Universität Bonn
Daniel Lütgehetmann Freie Universität Berlin
Akhil Mathew Harvard University
Duncan McCoy University of Glasgow
Jeffrey Meier Indiana University
Lennart Meier Universität Bonn
Allison Miller University of Texas, Austin
Kristian Jonsson Moi WWU Münster
Matthias Nagel Université du Québec à Montréal
Byungdo Park Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Jung Hwan Park Rice University
Kyungbae Park Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
Irakli Patchkoria Universität Bonn
Mark Powell Université du Québec à Montréal
Jean Raimbault Université Paul Sabatier
Daniel Ramras Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
Arunima Ray Brandeis University
Sune Precht Reeh Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Holger Reich Freie Universität Berlin
Marcy Robertson University of Melbourne
Romain Tessera Université d'Orsay
Mark Ullmann Freie Universität Berlin
Christian Wegner Universität Bonn
Christoph Winges WWU Münster
Jianchao Wu Penn State University
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