RESEARCH WORKSHOP OF THE ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Workshop on the Urysohn space

May 21-24, 2006

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, ISRAEL

Department of Mathematics

Abstracts:

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Participants:

Vladimir Pestov (Canada)

Talk: Results and problems related to approximation of the isometry group

of the Urysohn space with finite subgroups. (Abstract)

Norbert Sauer (Canada)

Talk: Metric spaces as binary relational structures. (Abstract)

Miroslav Husek (Czech Republic)

Talk: A historical view at Urysohn universal space. (Abstract)

Sam Tarzi (England)

Talk: Universal Hamming Spaces. (Abstract)
Christian Delhomme (France)

Maurice Pouzet (France)

Talk( joint with Christian Delhomme): Indivisible metric spaces. (Abstract)

Julien Melleray (France)

Talk: Two methods to study the geometric properties of the Urysohn space

and the structure of its isometry group. (Abstract)

Lionel Nguyen Van The (France)

Talk: Metric oscillation stability from a combinatorial point of view. (Abstract)

Stavros Iliadis (Greece)

Talk: Some problems on metric universal spaces. (Abstract)

Jan van Mill (the Netherlands)

Talk: Homogeneous Polish spaces and transitive actions by Polish groups. (Abstract)

Wieslaw Kubis (Poland)

Talk: Extension theorems and reconstruction theorems for the universal Urysohn space,

part I. (Abstract)

Andrzej Nagorko (Poland)

Talk: Carrier and nerve theorems. (Abstract)

Anatoly Vershik (Russia)

Talk: Group of isometries and dynamics on the Urysohn space. (Abstract)

Salvador Hernandez (Spain)

Talk: Recent results on the Chu duality of discrete groups. (Abstract)

Tadeusz Dobrowolski (USA)

Talk: On the number of translates of a nowhere dense set in a Polish group. (Abstract)

Jerzy Dydak (USA)

Talk: Hurewicz Theorem for Nagata-Assouad dimension. (Abstract)

Greg Hjorth (USA)

Talk: An oscillation theorem for Polish groups. (Abstract)

Randall Holmes (USA)

Talk: Isometric Embeddings of the Urysohn Space in Banach Spaces. (Abstract)

Maciej Malicki (USA)

Andrzej Roslanowski (USA)

Slawomir Solecki (USA)

Talk: Extreme amenability of L₀ and a Ramsey theorem. (Abstract)

Vladimir Uspenskiy (USA)

Talk: The Urysohn space and topological groups. (Abstract)

Alex Usvyatsov (USA)

Talk: Non-existence of universal Banach spaces in many regular cardinalities. (Abstract)

Isaac Gorelic (Canada, Israel)

Henryk Michalewski (Poland, Israel)

Yonatan Gutman (Israel)

Talk: Minimal Actions of Homeomorphism Groups. (Abstract)

Benjamin Weiss (Israel)

Talk: On the dynamics of the action of a group on itself. (Abstract)

Michael Megrelishvili (Israel)
 Talk: Globalization of Partial Actions on Topological and Metric Spaces. (Abstract)
Assaf Rinot (Israel)
Boaz Tsaban (Israel)

Talk: The combinatorics of the Baire group. (Abstract)

Uri Abraham (Israel)
Edmund Ben-Ami (Israel)
 Talk: On isometric embeddings in the Urysohn space. (Abstract)
Vladimir Fonf (Israel)

Talk: Borel sets in Banach spaces (Abstract)

Menachem Kojman (Israel)

Talk: A Baumgartner theorem for Urysohn's space. (Abstract)

Arkady Leiderman (Israel)
Michael Levin (Israel)

Talk: On Sternfeld's characterization of dimension in terms of basic embeddings. (Abstract)

Matatyahu Rubin (Israel)

Talk: Extension theorems and reconstruction theorems for the universal Urysohn space,

part II. (Abstract)

 
There could well be changes to this list. 

*Workshop -  May 21-24, 2006

*Support for the workshop is provided by the Israel Science Foundation and the
Center for Advanced Studies in Mathematics,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

We acknowledge the company Atlas Conferences as a workshop sponsor.

For additional information, please send e-mail to arkady@math.bgu.ac.il