UW Rainwater Seminar
Spring 2009
Unless noted otherwise, the talks are on Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30, in Padelford C-401
March 31
Michael Hochman, Princeton University
Local entropy and projections of dynamically defined fractals.
April 9
Lewis Bowen, University of Hawaii
Entropy in measurable dynamics.
April 23
Van Cyr, Penn State University
Obstructions to the existence of equilibrium measures for countable Markov shifts.
May 5
Karoly Simon, Budapest Technical University
The intersections of the Sierpinski Carpet with straight lines.
May 12
Matthew Badger, University of Washington
How to use tangent measures.
May 19
Rajagopalan Parthasarathy, Tata Institute, Mumbai
The K-group of Substitutional Systems.
May 26
Russell Lyons, Indiana University
Expansion for Group Actions, Independent Sets, and Perfect Matchings.