The last several years have witnessed a significant intensification of the connections between probability (e.g., random walks and percolation) and ergodic theory, especially in treating questions that relate dynamical behaviour with analytic and geometric properties of groups such as amenability, property (T), and the Haagerup property. The meeting will serve to further strengthen these connections by promoting interaction between different communities of researchers.

The conference is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the Collaborative Research Centre 1442 Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity and the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster: Dynamics - Geometry - Structure.