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Embedding Problems in Banach Spaces and Group Theory
Oct 17, 2011 to Oct 21, 2011

Organizer(s)

William Johnson* (Texas A&M University), Bruce Kleiner (Yale University and Courant Institute), Gideon Schechtman (Weizmann Institute), Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann (University of Alberta), and Alain Valette (Université de Neuchâtel)
This workshop is devoted to various kinds of embeddings of metric spaces into Banach spaces, including biLipschitz embeddings, uniform embeddings, and coarse embeddings, as well as linear embeddings of finite dimensional spaces into low dimensional $ell_p^n$ spaces. There will be an emphasis on the relevance to geometric group theory, and an exploration into the use of metric differentiation theory to effect embeddings.
 
Bibliography (PDF)

Accommodation:
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Schedule
Monday, October 17, 2011
9:15AM - 9:30AM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Welcome
9:30AM - 10:30AM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Bruce Kleiner Embedding 1-dimensional spaces in L_1 [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:00AM MSRI, Atrium Tea
11:00AM - 12:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Sean Li Discretization and Affine Approximation in High Dimensions ( Abstract ) [Video available]
12:00PM - 2:00PM MSRI, Atrium Lunch
2:00PM - 3:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Mark Sapir Aspherical groups and manifolds with extreme properties ( Abstract ) [Video available]
3:00PM - 3:30PM MSRI, Atrium Tea
3:30PM - 4:30PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Florent Baudier Embeddings into reflexive Banach spaces ( Abstract ) [Video available]
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
9:30AM - 10:30AM MSRI, Simons Auditorium John Roe Embedding Questions and Index Theory [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:00AM MSRI, Atrium Tea
11:00AM - 12:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Olivier Guédon Sparsity and Non-Euclidean Embeddings ( Abstract ) [Video available]
12:00PM - 2:00PM MSRI, Atrium Lunch
2:00PM - 3:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Mikhail Ostrovskii Low-Distortion Embeddings of Graphs with Large Girth ( Abstract ) [Video available]
3:00PM - 3:30PM MSRI, Atrium Tea
3:30PM - 4:30PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Dennis Dreesen The Behaviour of (Equivariant) Hilbert Space Compression under Group Constructions ( Abstract ) [Video available]
4:30PM - 6:30PM MSRI, Atrium Welcome Reception
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
9:30AM - 10:30AM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Guoliang Yu Fibred Embedding into Hilbert Space and its Applications ( Abstract ) [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:00AM MSRI, Atrium Tea
11:00AM - 12:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Nirina Randrianarivony Asymptotic geometry of Banach spaces and uniform quotient maps ( Abstract ) [Video available]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
9:30AM - 10:30AM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Yuval Peres Embeddings of Groups into Hilbert Space and Speed of Random Walks ( Abstract ) [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:00AM MSRI, Atrium Tea
11:00AM - 12:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Michael Doré Planar valued Lipschitz functions on Hilbert spaces ( Abstract ) [Video available]
12:00PM - 2:00PM MSRI, Atrium Lunch
2:00PM - 3:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Olga Maleva Thin Sets, Differentiability of Functions and Geometric Measure Theory ( Abstract ) [Video available]
3:00PM - 3:30PM MSRI, Atrium Tea
3:30PM - 4:30PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Romain Tessera Embedding Nilpotent Groups into Banach Spaces ( Abstract ) [Video available]
Friday, October 21, 2011
9:30AM - 10:30AM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Jeff Cheeger Quantitative Differentiation ( Abstract ) [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:00AM MSRI, Atrium Tea
11:00AM - 12:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Eva Kopecka Extending Lipschitz Mappings Continuously ( Abstract ) [Video available]
Parent Program(s):
Quantitative Geometry


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Embedding Problems in Banach Spaces and Group Theory
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA
94720-5070.
USA

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