Daiva Pucinskaite, Jean-Marie Bois and Artem Lopatem will give three survey talks on background material, based on the the first two chapters of the Shanghai notes of Rolf Fornsteiner.
Rolf Farnsteiner himself will give a series of lectures entitled "Support Varieties, p-Points and Jordan Type", this is supposed to provide an introduction to topics that will play a prominent role during the conference. Here are the titles of his talks: