UW Rainwater Seminar
Autumn 2008
Unless noted otherwise, the talks are on Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30, in Padelford C-401
October 7
Boris Solomyak, University of Washington
The "Mandelbrot set" for pairs of linear maps: a survey
October 28
Sergey Bezuglyi, Institute for Low Temperature Physics (Kharkov) and UW
Measures on a Cantor set
November 10, 4:00
Note unusual day and time!
Lev Birbrair, Universidade Federal de Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil
Metric properties of singularities of complex algebraic surfaces
November 18
Pablo Shmerkin, University of Manchester
Projections of self-similar and self-affine fractals