Tuesday 1st April to Friday 4th April 2008
Room G.205, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester
3:45pm-4:30pm TEA
4:30pm-5:30pm Ursula Hamenstädt: Bowen's construction for the Teichmüller flow
10:15am-11:00am Bernd Stratmann: Fractal analysis of Minkowski's function, and some variations of the theme
11:00am-11:30am Coffee
11:30am-12:15pm Gilles Courtois: A remark on Margulis' lemma
12:15pm-2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm-2:45pm Henk Bruin: Equilibrium states for multimodal maps
3:00pm-3:45pm Oliver Jenkinson: Comparing geometry of invariant measures
3:45pm-4:15pm Tea
4:15pm-5:00pm Carlangelo Liverani: Transfer operator methods in dynamical systems
10:15am-11:00am Eva Glasmachers: Characterization of Riemannian metrics on T^2 with and without positive topological entropy
11:00am-11:30am Coffee
11:30am-12:15pm Gerhard Knieper: A commutator formula and geodesic flows on manifolds of nonpositive curvature
12:15pm-2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm-2:45pm Samuel Lelievre: Action of SL(2,Z) and uniformisation of square-tiled surfaces
3:00pm-3:45pm Corinna Ulcigrai: Symbolic dynamics for flows in the octagon and continued fractions with respect to the Veech group
3:45pm-4:15pm Tea
4:15pm-5:00pm Jens Marklof: The periodic Lorentz gas and flows on homogeneous spaces
10:15am-11:00am Dan Jane: An X-ray transform result for thermostat flows on surfaces of negative curvature
11:00am-11:30am Coffee
11:30am-12:15pm Norbert Peyerimhoff: Spectral properties of ergodic Laplacians on manifolds with random metrics
12:15pm-2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm-2:45pm Jörg Schmeling: The structure of a typical orbit
3:00pm-3:45pm Jean-Francois Quint: The Pascal graph
3:45pm-4:15pm Tea
4:15pm-5:00pm Yves Benoist: Effective equidistribution of S-integral points on symmetric varieties
10:15am-11:00am Sa'ar Hersonsky: A generalized finite Riemann mapping theorem - discrete uniformization of n-connected bounded planar domains
11:00am-11:30am Coffee
11:30am-12:15pm Frederic Paulin: On the almost sure spiraling of geodesics in negatively curved manifolds
12:15pm-2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm-2:45pm Alex Gorodnik: Regularity of conjugacies for actions of large groups
3:00pm-3:45pm Marc Peigné: Random iterated function systems: on some recurrence property
3:45pm-4:15pm Tea
4:15pm-5:00pm Yves Guivarc'h: On orbit closures for groups of automorphisms of tori and nilmanifolds