Seminar 1.2.18 Yang
Title: Badly approximable points on manifolds and unipotent orbits in homogeneous spaces Speaker: Lei Yang (Sichuan University, China) Abstract: We will study n-dimensional badly approximable points on...
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Title: Recurrence along some sequences involving primes Speaker: Younghwan Son (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) Abstract: One of the important themes in ergodic theory is the...
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Title: The automorphism group of a zero entropy symbolic system Speaker: Van Cyr (Bucknell) Abstract: The symmetries of a symbolic dynamical system X form an interesting and often complicated group...
View ArticleSeminar 3.1.18 Roeder
Title: Lee-Yang zeros for the Cayley Tree and expanding maps of the circle Speaker: Roland Roeder (IUPUI) Abstract: I will explain how to use detailed properties of expanding maps of the circle...
View ArticleSeminar 3.8.18 Weaver
Title: On the relationship between entropy and periodic orbits Speaker: Bryce Weaver (Xavier University) Abstract: Via Pesin theory, complexity, measured by entropy, is inexorably linked to structure,...
View ArticleSeminar 3.22.18 Yang
Title: Periodic point growth for C^2 maps of the two sphere Speaker: Yun Yang (CUNY) Abstract: There are two basic mechanisms producing periodic orbits in a dynamical systems: contraction (via the...
View ArticleSeminar 4.5.18 Koutsogiannis
Title: Limiting behavior of multiple polynomial averages Speaker: Andreas Koutsogiannis (Ohio State University) Abstract: The study of the norm limiting behavior of multiple ergodic averages has been...
View ArticleSeminar 4.19.18 Samuel
Title: A classification of intermediate β-transformations Speaker: Tony Samuel (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) Abstract: In this talk we consider transformations of the unit interval of the form $\beta x +...
View ArticleSeminar 5.10.18 Richter
Title: The Erdos sumset conjecture Speaker: Florian Richter (Ohio State University) Abstract: A longstanding open conjecture of Erdos states that every subset of the integers with positive density...
View ArticleSeminar 5.31.18 Kao
Title: Unique Equilibrium States for Geodesic Flows on Surfaces without Focal Points Speaker: Nyima Kao (University of Chicago) Abstract: It is well-known that for compact uniformly hyperbolic systems...
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