Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Workshops/Conferences
Year 2010-2011
Thursday, October 14, 2010
32nd Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 1:30pm Timo Seppalainen,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Burke property for M/M/1 queues, a last passage model and a directed polymer
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- 2:45pm Timo Seppalainen,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Scaling exponents for a 1+1 dimensional directed polymer
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- 4:10pm Firas Rassoul-Agha,
University of Utah
Title: Fluctuations of random walk in dynamic random environment
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Friday, October 15, 2010
- 3:00pm Kurt Johansson,
KHT, Sweden
Title: Non-colliding Brownian motions and random matrix theory I
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- 4:30pm Sourav Chatterjee,
New York University
Title: he Large Deviation Principle for the Erdos-Renyi Random Graph
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Saturday, October 16, 2010
- 9:30am Kurt Johansson,
KHT, Sweden
Title: Non-colliding Brownian motions and random matrix theory II
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- 1:30pm Benedek Valko,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Random tri-diagonal matrices, beta ensembles and random Schrodinger operators
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Midwest Dynamical Systems
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010
- 9:00am Van Cyr ,
Northwestern University
Title: Constructing Conformal Measures for Transient Markov Shifts
Abstract and details available
- 11:00am Alex Furman,
University of Illinois, Chicago
Title: The space of metrics on a hyperbolic group, Sullivan's measure, and rough symmetries.
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Workshop on Discrete Methods in Ergodic Theory
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Workshop on Discrete Methods in Ergodic Theory
- 9:30am Alex Gorodnik ,
Bristol University
Title: Quantitative ergodic theory and Diophantine approximation
Abstract and details available
- 11:00am Tim Austin,
Brown University
Title: The quantitative ergodic theorem and Banach spaces embeddings of the Heisenberg group
Abstract and details available
- 1:30pm Mike Hochman,
Princeton University
Title: Dimension growth of repeated convolutions of fractal measures
Abstract and details available
- 2:30pm Julia Wolf,
Ecole Polytechnique
Title: Discrete analogues of characteristic factors
Abstract and details available
- 4:00pm Jon Chaika,
University of Chicago
Title: This talk will present two general results on diophantine approximation for dynamical systems. 1) Many measured quantities are almost everywhere 0 or infinity (joint with M. Boshernitzan). 2) Orbits of measure preserving maps of [0,1] have badly approximated points.
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 25, 2011
Workshop on Discrete Methods in Ergodic Theory
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Trends in Dynamics
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Trends in Dynamics
- 9:00am-9:50am Danny Calegari ,
Caltech University
Title: Random rigidity in the free group
Abstract and details available
- 10:20am-11:10am Vadim Kaloshin ,
University of Maryland
Title: On Herman's oldest open question in dynamics and diffusion along mean motion resonance for the restricted planar three body problem (joint with J. Fejoz, M. Giardia, P. Roldan)
Abstract and details available
- 11:20am-12:10pm Omri Sarig ,
Weizmann Institute and Penn State University
Title: Countable Markov partitions for smooth surface diffeomorphisms with positive topological entropy
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- 2:00pm-2:50pm Lewis Bowen,
Texas A & M University
Title: Entropy for sofic groups
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- 3:30pm-4:20pm Michael Zieve,
University of Michigan
Title: From dynamics to number theory and back again
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Trends in Dynamics
- 9:00am-9:50am Nikos Frantzikinakis ,
University of Crete
Title: Some new multiple ergodic theorems and related open problems
Abstract and details available
- 10:20am-11:10am Matt Foreman ,
University of California, Irvine
Title: Classifying measure preserving diffeomorphisms of the torus: Symbolic systems and the Anosov-Katok method
Abstract and details available
- 11:20am-12:10pm Giovanni Forni ,
University of Maryland
Title: Limit Distributions for Horocycle Flows
Abstract and details available
- 2:00pm-2:50pm Andres Navas,
University of Santiago
Title: On the (bary)center technique for the study of cocycles of isometries
Abstract and details available
- 3:00pm-3:50pm Yves Benoist,
Orsay University
Title: Random walks on homogeneous spaces
Abstract and details available
- 4:30pm-5:20pm Federico Rodriguez Hertz,
IMERL and Penn State University
Title: Global Rigidity for certain actions of higher rank lattices on the torus
Abstract and details available
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
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