Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics
Groups and Dynamics Seminar
Fall 2007
Time and Place
Unless otherwise stated, the Groups and Dynamics Seminar meeting
coordinates are
- Time: Wednesdays 3:00p.m.--3:50p.m.
- Place: 216 Milner Hall
Full schedule
- 5th of September, 2007
Speaker: Zoran Šunić of Texas A&M University
Title: Symbolic dynamics of tree portraits. Abstract.
- 12th
of September, 2007
Speaker: W. Patrick Hooper
of Northwestern University
Title: Dynamics on an infinite translation
surface. Abstract.
- 26th
of September, 2007
Speaker: Volodymyr
Nekrashevych of Texas A&M University
Title: A group of non-uniform exponential groowth.
Abstract.
- 3rd
of October, 2007
Speaker: David Kerr of
Texas A&M University
Title: Weak mixing and l_1. Abstract.
- 10th
of October, 2007
Speaker: Tamás
Kalmár-Nagy of Texas A&M University
Title: Of random time delays, rabbits, and the
visible points of the integer lettuce. Abstract.
- 17th
of October, 2007
Speaker: Gilles Pisier of
Texas A&M University
Title: Recent results on the free lamplighter
group
and approximation properties, after Ozawa, Popa, Valette, at al .
Abstract.
- 24th of October, 2007, 2:00-2:50
Speaker: Romain Tessera of Vanderbilt Univeristy
Title: Gromov hyperbolic Riemannian manifolds. Abstract.
- 24th of October, 2007, 3:00-3:50
Speaker: Bruce Hughes of Vanderbilt Univeristy
Title: Local similarities and the Haagerup
property. Abstract.
- 31st of October, 2007
Speaker: Volodymyr Nekrashevych of TexasA&M
Univeristy
Title: Quantized calculus on Julia sets. Abstract.
- 7th of November, 2007
Speaker: Mikael de la Salle of Ècole Normale Supérieure
Title: Proper actions of free lamplighter groups on spaces with walls. Abstract.
- 14th of November, 2007
Speaker: Sarah Koch of Cornell University
Title: A new link between Teichmuller Theory and Complex Dynamics. Abstract.
- 28th of November, 2007
Speaker: Aleksander Gorodnik of Califnornia
Institute of Technology
Title: Counting and equidistribution for actions of large groups. Abstract.
- 5th of December, 2007
Speaker: Todor Tsankov of Califnornia
Institute of Technology
Title: Measured equivalence relations and their full groups. Abstract.
- 5th of December, 2007
Workshop: Groups and Dynamics Schedule and abstracts.
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