Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Ergodic Theory, Geometric Rigidity and Number Theory
5 January to 7 July 2000
Organisers: A Katok (Penn State), G Margulis (Yale), M Pollicott (Manchester)
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical SciencesErgodic Theory Special Emphasis WeekVenue: CMS Site - Seminar Room 526 Jun - 30 Jun 2000 Timetable: |
Monday 26 June
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00 A Starkov (Moscow State)
Orbits of toral automorphism groups
14.30-15.30 P Eberlein (North Carolina)
Compact 2-step nilmanifolds and Riemannian submersions
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-17.00 R Nair (Liverpool)
Combinatorial number theory and ergodic theorems
Tuesday 27 June
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00 TBA
14.30-15.30 K Burns (Northwestern)
Magnetic flows
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-17.00 D Witte (Oklahoma)
Rigidity of Some characteristic-p nillattices
Wednesday 28 June
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00 H Oh (Princeton)
Counting problems and Hecke orbits in a homogeneous variety
14.30-15.30 Y Guivarc'h (Rennes I)
Asymptotic behaviour of products of random matrices
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-17.00 I Goldsheid (QMW)
Products of matrices depending on a parameter
and non-self-adjoint
operators
Thursday 29 June
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00 V Sadovskaya (Penn State)
Multifractural analysis of conformal axiom A flows
14.30-15.30 H Weiss (Penn State)
The dynamics of Schelling-type segregation
models and a dynamical
solution of a nonlinear variational problem for the Laplacian
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-17.00 Y Pesin (Penn State)
A dynamical system with non-zero Lyapunov
exponents and countably
many ergodic components
Friday 30 June
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00 S Hurder (UIC)
Dynamics of codimension one
14.30-15.30 D Dolgopyat (Penn State)
Derivatives of SRB measures
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-17.00 R Gunesch (Penn State)
Construction of weakly mixing smooth
diffeomorphisms preserving smooth
measure and a measurable Riemannian metric
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