Workshop on Ergodic Theory and Geometry

Tuesday 1st April to Friday 4th April 2008

Room G.205, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester

Programme

Monday 31st March (LMS Regional Meeting, Room G.107)

2:30pm-3:45pm Michael Field: Rates of mixing for flows

3:45pm-4:30pm TEA

4:30pm-5:30pm Ursula Hamenstädt: Bowen's construction for the Teichmüller flow

Tuesday 1st April

9:15am-10:00am Marc Kesseböhmer: Differentiability of Gibbs distribution functions via thermodynamic formalism

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

Wednesday 2nd April

9:15am-10:00am Leo Butler: A construction of integrable systems with positive entropy

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

Thursday 3rd April

9:15am-10:00am Anders Karlsson: A noncommutative ergodic theorem and applications

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

Friday 4th April

9:15am-10:00am Jouni Parkkonen: Hall rays in hyperbolic geometry and diophantine approximation

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