Seminar: Group, topology and model theory

Müster, WS 2010-11
Every Wednesday, 10:15--12:45, Room N1

1. Structure and ultraproducts
   Katrin Tent 20 Oct
2. Fraisse construction and Hall universal locally finite group
   Zaniar Ghadernezhad 26 Oct, Room 1D (Notice the unusual time and place)
3. Urysohn space
   Lars Scheele 3 Nov.
   Notes (by Lars).
4. Extending partial isometries
   Lars Scheele 10 Nov Notes (by Lars).
5. Amenable groups
   David Zabka 17 Nov
6. Sofic groups
   Nora Loges 24 Nov
7. Universal sofic groups I
   Matthias Frey 30 Nov, Room 1D (Notice the unusual time and place)
8. Universal sofic groups II
   Christoph Winges 08 Dec and 15 Dec
9. Isomorphism conjecture for torsion-free groups
   Immanuel Halupczok 12 Jan
10. Isomorphism conjecture for arbitrary groups
    Daniel Kasprowski 18 Jan, room 1D (Notice the unusual time and place)
11. Positive results for 9 and 10
    Antongiulio Fornasiero 26 Jan
12. More on the Farrell-Jones conjecture
    Arthur Bartels 01 Feb, room 1A (Notice the unusual time and place)

References

1. Lück, Reich The Baum-Connes and the Farrell-Jones Conjectures in K- and L-theory
2. Bartels, Lück, Reich On the Farrell-Jones Conjecture and its applications
3. Bartels Topologische Starrheit und Gruppenringe
4. Bartels, Lück The Borel Conjecture for hyperbolic and CAT(0)-groups