The talks will take place in the Math Department, room 646 PGH (Philip G. Hoffman Hall).
Here are maps and parking instructions.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Tuesday March 22 |
2:00–2:30 |
Vadim Kaimanovich
(University of Ottawa) |
Continuity of asymptotic characteristics of random products |
| 2:35–3:05 |
David Kerr
(Texas A&M University) |
Sofic invariants for group actions | |
| Coffee break | |||
| 3:20–3:50 |
Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein
(Universita del Sannio) |
On surjunctivity and sofic groups | |
| 3:55–4:15 |
Konstantin Tolmachov
(Higher School of Economics, Moscow) |
Variance of the Plancherel measure on the set of Young diagrams | |
| Coffee break | |||
| 4:30–5:00 |
Alexey Klimenko
(Steklov Mathematical Institute) |
Cesàro convergence of spherical averages
for measure-preserving actions of Markov semigroups and groups |
|
| 5:05–5:35 |
Sevak Mkrtchyan
(Rice University) |
Asymptotic properties of Schur-Weyl duality | |
| Dinner | |||
|
Wednesday March 23 |
11:00–11:30 |
Xavier Bressaud
(University of Toulouse) |
Self-similar tilings and local rules. The Tribonacci case |
| 11:35–11:55 |
Jon Fickensher
(Rice University) |
Self-Inverses in Rauzy Classes | |
| Lunch | |||
| 1:00–1:30 |
Vladlen Timorin
(Higher School of Economics, Moscow) |
Topological cubic polynomials | |
| 7:00–10:00 | Our Town, opera performance at Rice University, Shepherd School of Music | ||