University of Maryland
Dynamics Seminar Schedule

Location: Math 1308
Time: 2:00
Day: Thursday Start Aug 30
Organizer: Joe Auslander/Ken Berg



Current Schedule

August 30: Entropy Properties in Non-uniquely Ergodic Systems
Tomasz Downarowicz (Wroclaw University of Technology), Wroclaw, Poland, downar@math.umd.edu
September 6: Invariant Graphs, Chromatic Numbers, and Recurrence Properties of Sets of Integers
Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University), hillel@math.umd.edu
September 13: Which Toral Endomorphisms are Isomorphic?
Chris Hoffman (University of Washington), hoffman@math.washington.edu
September 20: Conjugacies between T and T2 for ergodic T
Geoff Goodson
September 27: The integrability of the central distribution
Misha Brin (Univ of Maryland, College Park), mib@math.umd.edu
October 18: The Weak Closure Theorem fails for Z^2 actions
Tomasz Downarowicz (Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland,)
October 25: Almost periodic sets and a theorem of Glasner
Joe Auslander (Univ of Maryland), jna@math.umd.edu
November 1: Transversely hyperbolic systems with symmetries
Dmitri Dolgopyat (Penn State ), dolgop@math.psu.edu
November 8: A fixed point theorem for bounded dynamical systems
Dave Richeson (Dickenson College)
November 15: On codimension one dominated splitting
Martin Sambarino (Univ of Maryland), samba
November 29: PROBABILISTIC STABILITY OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS By invitation of the hiring committee
Dimitri Dolgopyat ( Penn State University), dolgop@math.psu.edu
December 6: Entropy for Markov operators
Bartosz Frej (Wroclaw Univeristy of Technology, Poland)
February 19: Once reinforced random walks TUESDAY at 1 in 1310
Mike Keane (Wesleyan University)
February 28: Extremality of Independent Processes
Steve Kalikow (College Park), skalikow@math.umd.edu
March 07: Attainability of symbolic extension entropy
Tomasz Downarowicz (Michigan State), downar@math.msu.edu
March 21: Properties of amenable group actions via orbit euivalence
Kyewon Park, kkpark@madang.ajou.ac.kr
April 4: Joinings of three-interval exchange transformations
Sebastien Ferenczi (University of North Texas), Denton, TX, sf0027@unt.edu
April 11: Equidistribution of integer points and unipotent flows
Oh
April 18: Mixing Time for Biased Card Shuffling
Chris Hoffman (University of Washington), hoffman@math.washington.edu
April 25: The Quantitative Oppenheim Conjecture Room 3206
G. Margulis (Yale)
May 2: Voronoi Percolation
Anthony Quas (University of Memphis), quasa@msci.memphis.edu
May 9: Toward a Mathematical Theory of Observation
Will Ott (Maryland)
September 12: Relative mixing and orbit equivalence
Dan Rudolph (University of Maryland), Department of Mathematics, 20742, djr@math.umd.edu