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Rice Dynamics Workshop

Schedule


Friday, May 3


Department location and parking map

2:30pm Registration   HBH (Herman Brown Building)
Room 220
3:00-3:50pm Diophantine polygonal billiards are ergodic Giovanni Forni HBH 227
3:50-4:10pm Coffee Break   HBH 438
4:10-5:00pm Unipotent flows and infinite measures Amir Mohammadi HBH 227
5:00-5:20pm Coffee Break   HBH 438
5:20-6:10pm On random groups of intermediate growth Rostislav Grigorchuk HBH 227
6:10pm Dinner on your own Suggested Restaurants

Saturday, May 4


8:15am Shuttle from Holiday Inn to campus Transportation to Rice University  
8:30-9:30am Continental Breakfast   HBH 438
9:30-10:20am Cocycle rigidity of parabolic actions in SL(n, R), n>3 Zhenqi Wang

HBH 227

10:20-10:40am Coffee Break   HBH 438
10:40-11:30am Renormalization and rigidity of circle maps Sasa Kocic HBH 227
11:30am-2:00pm Break for Lunch   Rice Village
2:00-2:50pm Totally nonfree actions of self-similar groups Yaroslav Vorobets HBH 227
2:50-3:10pm Coffee Break   HBH 438
3:10-4:00pm Ergodic properties of m-free integers in number fields Francesco Cellarosi HBH 227
4:00-4:20pm Coffee Break   HBH 438
4:20-5:10pm Rigidity of Actions by Commuting Nilmanifold Automorphisms Zhiren Wang HBH 227
5:10-5:30pm Coffee Break   HBH 438
5:30-6:20pm Global Rigidity of Higher Rank Abelian Anosov Algebraic Actions Federico Rodriguez-Hertz HBH 227
6:45pm Workshop Banquet Seco's Latin Cuisine

Sunday, May 5


8:15am Shuttle from Holiday Inn to campus Transportation to Rice University  
8:30-9:30am Continental Breakfast   HBH 438
9:30-10:20am The Fried entropy for smooth group actions and connections with algebraic number theory Svetlana Katok HBH 227
10:20-10:40am Coffee Break   HBH 438
10:40am-11:30pm Rate Results for Rigidity Sequences Kelly Yancey HBH 227
11:30-11:50am Coffee Break   HBH 438
11:50am-12:40pm Arithmeticity and topology of smooth actions of higher rank abelian groups Anatole Katok HBH 227
12:40-2:00pm CHAOS & Life outreach Program Participant Lunch Outreach Program (Closed Session) HBH427
2:00-5:30pm Group Presentations Outreach Program Presentation (Closed Session) HBH 427
5:30pm Certificate Awards to CHAOS & Life outreach participants   HBH 427

Organizing committee: Danijela Damjanovic

For administrative questions, contact
Marie Magee

For web questions or problems, contact
Bonnie Hausman