Conference on Geometry and
Dynamics
of
Groups and Spaces
In Memory of Alexander Reznikov
September 22-29, 2006
Max Planck Institute for
Mathematics (MPIM), Bonn,
Germany
Organizers:
Mikhail Kapranov (Yale University, USA)
Sergiy Kolyada
(Institute of Mathematics, Ukraine)
Yuri
Manin (MPIM, Germany)
Pieter Moree (MPIM, Germany)
Leonid Potyagailo (Université
de Lille 1, France)
E-Mail Contact:
gdgs06@mpim-bonn.mpg.de
Alexander (Sasha) Reznikov was
born in Kiev
on 14 January 1960. After graduating from the Kiev
State University he was
a PhD student at the Institute
of Mathematics (NAS of
Ukraine) under the supervision of Myroslav
Horbachuk and then he worked as an
applied mathematician in various Soviet institutes before emigrating to
Israel
in 1989. A
year later he completed his PhD thesis at Tel Aviv under the
supervision of Vitali Milman.
From there, after a year’s postdoctoral fellowship at ICTP in Trieste,
he became a lecturer at the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, where he remained before
moving to his chair in Durham
(UK) in 1997.
Sasha
Reznikov
(1960-2003) was a brilliant mathematician who died unfortunately very
early. This conference in his remembrance focuses on topics Sasha made a contribution to. In
particular,
Hyperbolic,
Differential and Complex Geometry
Geometric Group Theory
Three Dimensional Topology
Dynamical Systems
The first day will be Friday
September 22nd. This day is
the last day of a conference of the German Mathematical Society (DMV)
that is being held at the University
of Bonn in the
week September 18-22. There are 3 lectures scheduled in the DMV meeting
that Friday morning. They are somewhat related to the topics of the
conference.
In the afternoon the Reznikov
remembrance conference will start at the MPIM and it also open to
attendance by mathemati- cians participating in the DMV meeting.
Also Saturday 23rd a few talks will be scheduled.
Preliminary list
of participants:
M. Belolipetsky,
G. Besson,
M. Boileau, S. Buyalo,
G. Courtois, A. Danilenko,
T. Delzant, Ch. Deninger,
H. Esnault, J. Franks, R. Grigorchuk, M. Kapovich,
W. Klingenberg, V.
Milman, M. Morishita, A. Navas, Yu. Neretin,
J. Parker, V. Pestov,
J. Porti, V. Sergiescu,
C. Simpson, B. Tsygan, A. Verjovsky, S. Wang
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