UW Rainwater Seminar
Winter 2007
Unless noted otherwise, the talks are on Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30, in Padelford C-401
January 9
Klaus Schmidt, University of Vienna,
PIMS 10th Anniversary Distinguished Lecturer
Mahler measure, Fuglede-Kadison determinants and entropy
January 16
Sergey Bezyglyi, ILTPE Kharkov, Ukraine, and UW
Aperiodic substitutional systems and their Bratteli diagrams
February 6
Sergey Bezyglyi, ILTPE Kharkov, Ukraine, and UW
Full groups of minimal homeomorphisms of a Cantor set
February 13
Ian Putnam, University of Victoria, Canada
A homology theory for Smale spaces
February 20
Pablo Shmerkin, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
The Hausdorff dimension of the arithmetic sum of self-similar sets