Friday, March 16, 2007 |
3:00-4:00 |
Alex Lubotzky |
Finite groups
and hyperbolic manifolds |
4:00-4:30 |
tea |
Sunday, March 18 |
8:45-9:15 |
coffee and bagels |
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9:15-9:30 |
welcoming remarks |
|
9:30-10:20 |
Vitaly Bergelson |
Central sets and a Szemeredi theorem for general groups |
10:20-10:40 |
coffee break |
|
10:40-11:30 |
Larry Shepp |
A new look at Radon inversion |
11:45-12:35 |
Tamar Ziegler |
Polynomial progressions in primes |
12:35-2:00 |
lunch break |
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2:00-2:50 |
Yuval Peres |
Sums of homogeneous Cantor sets: a rational criterion |
3:00-3:20 |
Jim Tseng, Brandeis University |
Shrinking
target properties of circle rotations |
3:30-4:20 |
Elon Lindenstrauss |
Periodic orbits on the space of lattices |
4:30-5:20 |
Anatoly Vershik |
Metric
hyperbolicity and quasi-similarity of Markov operators |
5:30-7:00 |
reception/social event |
Monday, March 19 |
8:30-9:00 |
coffee and bagels |
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9:00-9:50 |
Gregory Margulis |
Furstenberg boundary theory and rigidity |
9:50-10:15 |
coffee break |
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10:15-11:05 |
Yves Guivarc'h |
Orbit closures, stationary measures, & equidistribution |
11:20-12:10 |
Bryna Kra |
Gowers norms: linking ergodic theory and additive combinatorics |
12:10-2:00 |
lunch break |
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2:00-2:50 |
Arkady Tempelman |
Pointwise ergodic theorems for
group representations in
Lp |
3:00-3:20 |
Mike Johnson, Northwestern |
Convergence of some commuting polynomial averages |
3:25-3:45 |
Mike Hochman, Hebrew University |
Upcrossing Inequalities in Ergodic Theory |
4:00-4:20 |
Ronnie Pavlov, Ohio State University |
Some counterexamples in topological dynamics |
4:30-5:20 |
Neil Hindman |
Largeness of the set of finite products in a semigroup |
7:30-9:30 |
conference banquet |
Pita Plus Restaurant |
Tuesday, March 20 |
8:30-9:00 |
coffee and bagels |
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9:00-9:50 |
Christian Skau |
Orbit equivalence for Cantor
minimal Zn systems |
9:50-10:00 |
coffee break |
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10:00-10:20 |
David Ralston, Rice University |
Heaviness: distribution properties of circle rotations |
11:00-11:50 |
Shahar Mozes |
On the word metric and (no) cut points for asymptotic cones |
11:50-1:30 |
lunch break |
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2:00-2:50 |
Anatoly Katok |
Measure rigidity beyond uniform
hyperbolicity |
3:00-3:20 |
Andrey Gogolev, Penn State |
Moduli of
smooth conjugacy of Anosov diffeomorphisms
of Tn, n > 2 |
3:30-3:50 |
Bryce Weaver, Penn State |
In Preparation for Margulis:
Construction of Unstable Manifolds Given
Cone Conditions for 3-D Flows |
4:30-5:20 |
Eli Glasner |
Topological groups with Rohlin properties |
Wednesday, March 21 |
8:30-9:00 |
coffee and bagels |
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9:00-9:50 |
Benjy Weiss |
Symbolic dynamics: some old and new results |
9:50-10:15 |
coffee break |
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10:15-11:05 |
Hillel Furstenberg |
Ergodic fractal measures |
11:05-11:15 |
farewell and closing |
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