Spring 2007 Meeting of the
Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics

in honor of Hillel Furstenberg

in recognition of his long association with the Maryland mathematics department and his many contributions to dynamical systems. Note: it has recently been announced that Hillel Furstenberg will be awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.

March 18-21 (Sunday-Wednesday), 2007
Department of Mathematics
University of Maryland, College Park

Talks will begin Sunday morning around 9AM and will conclude Wednesday around noon. In addition, a special colloquium related to the theme of the conference will be held the previous Friday, March 16, at 3PM. Click here for lodging information. Click here for campus visitor information, and here for directions to the math department by car, here for directions from the three Washington-area airports, and here for directions to the math department by metro. Note: the university will be on Spring Break effective Saturday, so the university shuttle buses may not be running. If you are going directly to the Quality Inn, you can walk there from the College Park Metro Station by going west along Calvert Road (about 10-15 minutes), or call the hotel (301-276-1000) for shuttle pickup.

Confirmed Invited Speakers

• Vitaly Bergelson, Ohio State University
• Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University
• Eli Glasner, Tel Aviv University
• Yves Guivarc'h, University of Rennes
• Neil Hindman, Howard University
• Anatoly Katok, Penn State University
• Bryna Kra, Northwestern University
• Elon Lindenstrauss, Princeton University
• Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University (Mathematics Colloquium)
• Gregory Margulis, Yale University
• Shahar Mozes, Hebrew University
• Yuval Peres, University of California, Berkeley
• Larry Shepp, Rutgers University
• Christian Skau, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Arkady Tempelman, Penn State
• Anatoly Vershik, Steklov Institute, St. Petersburg
• Benjy Weiss, Hebrew University
• Tamar Ziegler, University of Michigan

Program of talks and activities

Pictures from the conference
(courtesy of Ethan Akin and Jonathan King)

Organizing Committee

• Joseph Auslander, Maryland
• Vitaly Bergelson, Ohio State
• David Ellwood, Clay Mathematics Institute
• Abram Kagan, Maryland
• Anatoly Katok, Penn State
• Dan Rudolph, Colorado State
• Jonathan Rosenberg, Maryland

More Information

• Click here for lodging information. If you want us to get a room for you, you must notify us by February 26.
• You can contact the local organizers about topics like lodging, the banquet, and financial assistance at dynconf@math.umd.edu.
• There will be a conference banquet on Monday, March 19 at 7:30 at Pita Plus Restaurant, a very close walk from the math department and the hotel. The food is kosher, with an emphasis on Middle Eastern dishes, and is quite tasty. The cost will be $40 person for faculty and guests, $20 for students, including soft drinks and tip. If possible, please pay in advance by a check made out to Department of Mathematics Coffee Fund, which you can send c/o Anita Dahms, Mathematics Department, Univ. of Maryland, College Park MD 20742. Otherwise you can pay by cash or check when you arrive at the conference.
• You can click here for past programs of the Maryland conferences, information on Dynamics and Chaos at Maryland, and the home page of the Center for Dynamics and Geometry at Penn State, which contains information on the Penn State meetings.

Sponsors

The conference is supported by the Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, by the Office of International Programs, University of Maryland, the Clay Mathematics Institute, by the National Science Foundation, Grant number DMS-0600296 and Grant number DMS-0400493, and by John Wiley & Sons, publishers.