Schedule

The conference takes place on the 12th and 13th of September 2022. We host two mini-courses (two hours each) and eight contributed talks (forty minutes each).
The following is the provisional schedule, expressed in Italy’s local time GMT+2.

12 September 202213 September 2022
11:40 – 11:55 Zoom test
11:55 – 12:00 Opening
12:00 – 13:00 Dikran Dikranjan
Functorial subgroups of topological groups		 Dikran Dikranjan
Functorial subgroups of topological groups
13:00 – 13:40 Dmitri Shakhmatov
Zariski and (precompact) Markov topologies in free groups and their subgroups		 Thomas Weigel
ζ-functions associated to totally-disconnected, locally compact groups
13:40 – 14:20 Nicolò Zava
What is the “right” large-scale geometry for a locally compact abelian group?		 Menachem Shlossberg
The Addition Theorem for two-step nilpotent torsion groups
14:20 – 14:50 Break and discussion (and Zoom test) Break and discussion
14:50 – 15:50 Alain Valette
The Chabauty space of closed subgroups in a locally compact group		 Alain Valette
The Chabauty space of closed subgroups in a locally compact group
15:50 – 16:30 Rafael Dahmen
On the topology of J-Groups		 Serhii Bardyla
Algebraically closed semigroups
16:30 – 17:10 Vladimir Uspenskiy
On epimorphisms in some categories of topological groups		 Salvador Hernández
Tensor products of topological abelian groups and Pontryagin duality
17:10 – 17:30 Discussion Closure and discussion