Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Workshops/Conferences
Year 2011
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
Abstract and details available
- 2:00pm-2:50pm Lewis Bowen,
Texas A & M University
Title: Entropy for sofic groups
Abstract and details available
- 3:30pm-4:20pm Michael Zieve,
University of Michigan
Title: From dynamics to number theory and back again
Abstract and details available
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
Thursday, October 13, 2011
The 33rd Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 1:30pm Karl-Theodor Sturm,
Bonn University
Title: Optimal transportation in geometry, analysis, and probability, I
Details of the talk
- 2:45pm Karl-Theodor Sturm,
Bonn University
Title: Optimal transportation in geometry, analysis, and probability, II
Details of the talk
- 4:10pm Alessio Figalli,
University of Texas, Austin
Title: Optiomal transport and isoperimetric inequalities
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 14, 2011
- 3:00pm Russell Lyons,
Indiana University
Title: Some aspects of determinantal probability measures, I
Abstract and details available
- 4:30pm Armajit Budhiraja,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Title: Some varitional formlas for space-time Brownian motions and Poisson measures
Abstract and details available
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Microlocal methods in spectral and scattering theory
- 9:00am David Borthwick,
Emory University
Title: Spectral asymptotics for hyperbolic scattering
Abstract and details available
- 10:30am Tanya Christiansen,
University of Missouri
Title: Schrödinger operators and the distribution of resonances in sectors
Abstract and details available
- 11:30am Gabriel Rivière,
Université Lille 1
Title: Eigenmodes of the damped wave equation and subsets of small topological pressure
Abstract and details available
- 2:30pm Antônio Sá Barreto,
Purdue University
Title: A support theorem for the radiation fields on asymptotically Euclidean manifolds.
Abstract and details available
- 4:00pm Hamid Hezari,
MIT
Title: Volume of nodal sets of eigenfunctions
Abstract and details available
- 5:00pm Andrew Hassell,
Australian National University
Title: A modified scaling method for accurate computation of Dirichlet eigenfunctions and eigenvalues on smooth starshaped domains
Abstract and details available
Saturday, October 29, 2011
- 9:00am Stéphane Nonnenmacher ,
CEA-Saclay
Title: Damped chaotic waves: exponential stabilization in absence of geometric control
Abstract and details available
- 10:30am Fabricio Macià,
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Title: Resonances and semiclassical measures for the Schrödinger flow on the torus
Abstract and details available
- 11:30am Richard Melrose ,
MIT
Title: Small eigenvalues of collapsing triangles
Abstract and details available
- 2:30pm Colin Guillarmou,
Ecole Normale Superieure
Title: Semiclassical measures for Eisenstein series on convex co-compact manifolds
Abstract and details available
- 4:00pm Kiril Datchev,
MIT
Title: Resonance free regions for nontrapping manifolds with cusps
Abstract and details available
- 5:00pm Peter Perry,
University of Kentucky
Title: Generic lower bounds on the resonance counting function for manifolds hyperbolic near infinity
Abstract and details available
Sunday, October 30, 2011
- 9:00am Pierre Albin,
UIUC
Title: Inverse boundary problems for systems in two dimensions
Abstract and details available
- 10:30am Plamen Stefanov,
Purdue University
Title: Microlocal analysis of the geodesic X-ray transform with conjugate points of fold type
Abstract and details available
- 11:30am Melissa Tacy ,
Northwestern University
Title: Obtaining improved Lp estimates for spectral clusters of decaying window width
Abstract and details available
- 2:30pm Maciej Zworski,
University of California, Berkeley
Title: Resonance free strips in scattering with hyperbolic trapped sets
Abstract and details available
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