UW Rainwater Seminar
Spring 2007
Unless noted otherwise, the talks are on Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30, in Padelford C-401
May 8
Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley
Two Erdos problems on lacunary sequences: Chromatic number, irrational rotations and Diophantine approximation.
May 15
Nikita Sidorov, University of Manchester
Expansions in non-integer bases and dynamics
May 22
Doug Lind, UW
Algebraic actions of the discrete Heisenberg group