Mini-Workshop on Lie groups, algebraic groups and transformation groups

July 15/16, 2006

In Room V3-201

Programme

Saturday,    July 15, 2006

10:00 - 10:50	D. Kleinbock	Dirichlet theorem on diophantine approximation and group actions
11:00 - 11:50	T. Kobayashi	Compact Clifford-Klein forms of non-Riemannian symmetric spaces
12:00 - 12:50	L. Potyagailo	Non-coherent hyperbolic lattices
Lunchbreak
15:00 - 15:50	R. Alperin	Remarks on solvable subgroup separability
16:00 - 16:50	V. Chernousov	Zero cycles on projective homogeneous varieties
17:00 - 17:50	A. Elashvili	Lie algebras of simple hypersurface singularities

Sunday,    July 16, 2006

10:00 - 10:50	D. Panyushev	Symmetric pairs and commuting varieties
11:00 - 11:50	O. Yakimova	Transversal slices to nilpotent orbits and symmetric invariants of centralizers
Lunchbreak
14:00 - 14:50	I. Arzhantsev	Small equivariant embeddings of homogeneous spaces
15:00 - 15:50	E. Vinberg	The group algebras of algebraic groups