Lis Gaines Workshop:
Action of Aut(F_n) on representation varieties

Sde-Boker; January 6-11 2009.

Organizers

  • Tsachik Gelander (Hebrew University), gelander@math.huji.ac.il
  • Yair Glasner (Ben Gurion University), yairgl@math.bgu.ac.il


Confirmed participants (in alphabetical order)

  1. Miklos Abert (University of Chicago),
  2. Meny Aka (Hebrew University),
  3. Talia Fernos (UCLA),
  4. Shelly Garion (Bonn),
  5. Tsachik Gelander (Hebrew university),
  6. Yair Glasner (Ben Gurion university),
  7. Ilya Kapovich (University of Illinois, Urbana),
  8. Elon Lindenstrauss (Princeton, Hebrew university),
  9. Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew university),
  10. Martin Lustig (Université Aix-Marseille III),
  11. Evans, Martin (University of Alabama),
  12. Yair Minsky (Yale),
  13. Chloe Perin (Hebrew University, Universite de Caen),
  14. Nicolas Monod (EPFL Lausanne),
  15. Yoav Moriah (Technion),
  16. Shahr Mozes (Hebrew university),
  17. Uri Onn (Ben Gurion University),
  18. Iddo Sammet (Hebrew university),
  19. Zlil Sela (HUJI),
  20. Gregory Soifer (Bar-Ilan),
  21. Pete Storm (University of Pennsylvania, Hebrew university),
  22. Zhiren Wang (Princeton, Hebrew university),
  23. Barak Weiss (Ben Gurion university)




Program

Tuesday 6/1: Arrival; 18:00 Dinner; 19:00 Welcome lecture and introductory talk.

Wednesday 7/1: 7-9 Breakfast;
9:30-10:30 Opening ceremony Cofee and some words from Prof. Miriam Cohen, director of the center for advanced study and Prof. Avigad Vonshak, director of the Blaustein Institutes for desert research.
10:30-11:30 Lecture; 11:50-12:50 Lecture; 12:50-16:00 Lunch; 16:00-17:00 Lecture; 18:00-19:00 Dinner.

Thursday 8/1: 7-9 Breakfast; 9:00-10:00 Lecture; 10:00-10:30 Coffee; 10:30-11:30 Lecture; 11:50-12:50 Lecture; 12:50-16:00 Lunch; 16:00-17:00 Lecture; 18:00-19:00 Dinner.

Friday 9/1: 7-9 Breakfast; 9:00-10:00 Lecture; 10:00-10:30 Coffee; 10:30-11:30 Lecture; 11:50-12:50 Lecture; 12:50-16:00 Lunch; 18:00-19:00 Dinner.

Saturday 10/1: 7-9 breakfast; 12:00-1:00 Lunch; 1:30-5:00 Walking excursion; 6:00-7:00 Dinner.

Sunday 11/1: 7-9 Breakfast; 9:00-1:00 Work session; 1:00-2:30 Lunch; 2:30-4:00 Summary + Open Problem session.

It is possible to stay Sunday evening and leave on Monday morning, please let us know if you are interested so we can reserve a room.

Supported by the center for advanced studies at Ben Gurion university of the Negev

The European Research Council has provided Tsachik Gelander a generous financial support from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2023) grant agreement 260508, which in particular enabled us to perform this workshop.

Final report

Final report can be downloaded here.