UW Rainwater Seminar
Winter 2011
Unless noted otherwise, the talks are on Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30, in Padelford C-401
January 25
Karoly Simon, Budapest Technical University
Stationary measures for projective transformations: the Blackwell measure
January 31 (Monday, 4:00-5:00, in THO 231)
Michael Schraudner, Universidad de Chile
Projective subdynamics of (uniformly mixing) Z^d shifts of finite type
February 8
Douglas Lind, University of Washington
Periodic points and entropy
February 22
Boris Solomyak, University of Washington
Hausdorff dimension for subshifts invariant under the multiplicative integers
March 1
Pablo Shmerkin, University of Manchester
Sets which are not tube-null and projections of fractal measures
March 8
Michael Hochman, Hebrew University and Microsoft Research
Sumset phenomena for fractal sets and measures
March 15
Piotr Oprocha, AGH University of Science and Technology, Polish Academy of Sciences
On weak mixing, disjointness and multiple disjointness