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Workshop on the universal Urysohn metric space
May 21-24, 2006
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva, Israel

Organizers
Matatyahu Rubin (Chair), Vladimir Fonf and Arkady Leiderman (all Ben-Gurion University, Israel), Vladimir Pestov (University of Ottawa, Canada).

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Abstracts

Plenary Lectures

Vladimir Uspenskiy The Urysohn space and topological groups
Anatoly M. Vershik Group of isometries and dynamics on the Urysohn space

Regular Talks

Edmund Ben Ami On isometric embeddings in the Urysohn space
Tadeusz Dobrowolski On the number of translates of a nowhere dense set in a Polish group
Jerzy Dydak Hurewicz Theorem for Nagata-Assouad dimension
Vladimir P. Fonf Borel sets in Banach spaces
Yonatan Gutman Minimal Actions of Homeomorphism Groups
Salvador Hernandez Recent results on the Chu duality of discrete groups
Greg Hjorth An oscillation theorem for Polish groups
M. Randall Holmes Isometric Embeddings of the Urysohn Space in Banach Spaces
Miroslav Hušek A historical view at Urysohn universal space
Stavros Iliadis Some problems on metric universal spaces
Menachem Kojman A Baumgartner theorem for Urysohn's space
Wieslaw Kubiś Extension theorems and reconstruction theorems for the universal Urysohn space, part I
Michael Levin On Sternfeld's characterization of dimension in terms of basic embeddings
Michael Megrelishvili Globalization of Partial Actions on Topological and Metric Spaces
Julien Melleray Two methods to study the geometric properties of the Urysohn space and the structure of its isometry group
Jan van Mill Homogeneous Polish spaces and transitive actions by Polish groups
Andrzej Nagórko Carrier and nerve theorems
Vladimir Pestov Approximation of the isometry group of the Urysohn space with finite subgroups
Maurice Pouzet Indivisible metric spaces
Matatyahu Rubin Extension theorems and reconstruction theorems for the universal Urysohn Space II
Norbert Sauer Metric spaces as binary relational structures
Slawomir Solecki Extreme amenability of L0 and a Ramsey theorem
Sam Tarzi Universal Hamming Spaces
Lionel Nguyen Van The Metric oscillation stability from a combinatorial point of view
Boaz Tsaban The combinatorics of the Baire group
Alex Usvyatsov Non-existence of universal Banach spaces in many regular cardinalities
Benjamin Weiss On the dynamics of the action of a group on itself


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