The Workshop will be held under the auspices of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Mathematics at the Technion.The conference will be devoted to recent developments in Ergodic Theory and related fields. Some of the people who have already expressed their interest in participating are :
The organizing committee consists of: V. Bergelson, H. Furstenberg, A. Katok and A. Nevo.
Please complete and return the attached email registration form to :
Institute of Advanced Studies in Mathematics
iasm@techunix.technion.ac.il
Sunday, 16 March
09:00-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:15 Opening remarks
10:15-11:00 Harry Kesten (New York)
Distinguishing and Reconstructing Sceneries from
Observations along Random Walk Paths
11:15-12:00 Yuval Peres (Jerusalem)
Stationary Processes with Unpredictable Partial Sums
12:00-12:30 Coffee
12:30-13:10 Yves Derriennic (Brest, France)
Fractional Poisson Equation and the Ergodic Theorem
13:20-14:00 Michiko Yuri (Sapporo, Japan)
Thermodynamic Formalism for Certain Nonhyperbolic Maps
14:00-15:00 Lunch at the Forcheimer Faculty Center
15:00-15:30 Sebastian Ferenczi (Marseilles)
Covering Numbers for Rotations and Interval Exchanges
15:30-16:00 Itai Benjamini (Rehovot)
Expanding Graphs Contain Expanding Trees
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-17:00 Yitzhak Weit (Haifa)
To be announced
17:00-17:30 David Meiri (Jerusalem)
Entropy, Dimension and Uniform Distribution on Tori
Monday, 17 March
09:00-09:40 Dmitry Dolgopyat (Princeton)
On Decay of Correlations in Hyperbolic Flows
09:50-10:30 Benjamin Weiss (Jerusalem)
Mixing Properties of Actions of Amenable Groups
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:40 Vadim Kaimanovich (Rennes)
Amenability and F lner Condition for Equivalence
Relations
11:50-12:30 Amos Nevo (Haifa)
Lie Groups and Pointwise Ergodic Theory
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:30 Robert Brooks (Haifa)
A Selberg Theorem for the Dual Platonic Graphs
14:30-15:00 Barak Weiss (Jerusalem)
Minimality and Unique Ergodicity for Subgroup Actions
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-16:30 Colloquium: Robert Zimmer (Chicago)
Algebraic and Arithmetic Quotients of Group Actions
16:45-17:30 Ilya Goldsheid
To be announced
17:30 Cocktail Party in the 8th Floor Faculty Lounge
Amado Mathematics Building
Tuesday, 18 March
09:00-09:40 Eugene Gutkin (Los Angeles)
Applications of Ergodic Theory to Periodic Billiard
Orbits in Polygons
09:50-10:30 Daniel Rudolph (College Park)
Entropy and Orbit Equivalence
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:40 Yves Guivarc'h (Rennes)
Simplicity of Some Lyapunov Spectra
11:45-12:30 Russell Lyons (Bloomington)
Biased Random Walks and Harmonic Functions on the
Lamplighter Group
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:40 Mordechai Levin and Meir Smorodinsky (Tel Aviv)
Normal Lattices
14:50-15:30 Rita Solomyak (Seattle)
Coincidence of Entropies for Two Classes of Dynamical
Systems
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-16:40 Yuri Lyubich (Haifa)
Averaging Sets on Spheres
16:50-17:30 Deborah Heicklen (Jerusalem)
T,T-1 is not Standard
Wednesday, 19 March
09:00-09:40 Klaus Schmidt (Vienna)
Tails and Fine Tails
09:50-10:30 Yuri Kifer (Jerusalem)
Limit Theorems for Random Transformations
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:40 Genadi Levin (Jerusalem)
When Do Two Rational Functions Have the Same Maximal
Measure
11:50-12:30 Mikhail Malkin (Nizhny Novgorod)
Maximal Measures of Symbolic Systems with Meromorphic
Zeta Functions
12:30-13:00 Coffee
13:00-13:30 Vladimir Azarin (Ramat Gan)
Asymptotic Behavior of Entire Functions of Finite Order
and Dynamical Systems
13:30-14:00 Yehuda Shalom (Jerusalem)
Ergodic Theorems for Group Actions and Unitary
Representations
14:00-15:00 Lunch at the Forcheimer Faculty Center
15:00-15:30 Koji Fujiwara (Yokohama, Japan)
Ergodic Theorems for Word-Hyperbolic Groups
15:30-16:00 Marc Bourdon (Jerusalem)
Hyperbolic Buildings
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-17:30 Special talk: Michael Keane (Delft)
Simple Proofs of Ergodic Theorems
Thursday, 20 March
09:00-09:40 Richard Sharp (Manchester)
Large Deviations for Rational Maps
09:50-10:30 Michael Boshernitzan (Houston)
Diophantine and Combinatorial Properties of Interval
Exchange Transformations
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:40 Hillel Furstenberg (Jerusalem)
To be announced
11:50-12:30 Vitaly Bergelson (Ohio)
Polynomial Ergodic Theorems: Some Recent Results and
Open Problems
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:40 Alex Lubotzky (Jerusalem)
Arithmetic Structures on the Actions of Semi-Simple
Groups
14:50-15:30 Shahar Mozes (Jerusalem)
Lattices in Products of Trees
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-16:40 Alex Furman (Chicago)
Measure Theoretic Analog of Quasi-Isometries of Groups
16:50-17:30 Simeon Reich (Haifa)
Nonlinear Ergodic Theory in Hilbert and Banach Spaces
Friday, 21 March
09:00-09:40 Hitoshi Nakada (Yokohama, Japan)
On Natural extensions of Continued Fraction
Transformations
09:50-10:30 Jonathan Aaronson (Tel Aviv)
On Multiple Recurrence
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:40 Mark Pollicot (Manchester)
Regularity of Cocycle Solutions
11:50-12:30 Anatoly Vershik (St. Petersburg)
Ergodic Theorems and Ergodic Methods in
Representation Theory
Saturday, 22 March
There will be an excursion to the Gallilee
Airport arrival:
A sherut (shared taxi) service has recently been introduced by
the Amal Taxi Co. from Ben Gurion Airport direct to your hotel in
Haifa. The cost is about $15.00 (including service charges) and
the service is available at all times. There is also a bus
service from Ben-Gurion Airport to Haifa (bus No. 947) available
daily from 6:30-20:40 hours, except for Saturdays. On Fridays
public transport stops at 16:40. Bus fare costs about $8.00
(payable only in Israeli shekels) per person, and a taxi from the
Haifa central bus station to your hotel costs about the same.
There is also a special taxi service to Haifa available at the
airport for about $80.00 per taxi.
Departure:
Transportation from Haifa to the airport on your departure can
be arranged for about $15.00. This airport shuttle, however,
functions only at night and at certain times during the day.
There is also a good bus service.
Currency exchange:
Changing currency in Israel is expensive due to bank
charges. We do not, however, recommend that you buy Israeli
currency abroad. We suggest that you pay your hotel bill in
foreign currency (which will also save you the 17% value
added tax). We also advise you to limit your currency
exchanges to a minimum as a bank charge is made on each
exchange, in addition to the charge made for each
traveller's check cashed. Possibly the best way to save is
through the use of a credit card. Visa is widely accepted in
Israel as is MasterCard, EuroCard, American Express and Diner's
Club.
Accommodation for workshop participants:
Hotel rooms will be available for the workshop at the Marom Hotel
on Mount Carmel at the following rates. These include breakfast
and service charges. These rates also apply to periods directly
before and after the workshop, if reservations are made together
with the registration form. In order to benefit from the special
workshops rates, please complete the enclosed registration form
and e-mail it to reach us by 31 January, 1997. We should point
out that the number of rooms at the Marom Hotel is limited and
will be given on a "first come first served" basis.
Marom Hotel
Car rentals:
Should you be interested in renting a car during you stay in
Israel, we strongly recommend that you make the necessary
arrangements through your own travel agent before leaving for
Israel. This will save you unecessary expense as car rentals in
Israel cost more when paid for locally.
Conference activities:
Deadline for registration:
We ask that you e-mail your form as soon as possible, but not later than the
end of January. The workshop will commence on Sunday, 16 March,
so participants should preferably reach Haifa by
Saturday, 15 March, 1997.
INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES IN MATHEMATICS
AT THE TECHNION
MODERN ERGODIC THEOREMS
16-22 March, 1997
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