Ergodic Theory of Group Extensions Workshop Schedule
Monday 27 March
Lecture theatre MS.01, Mathematics Institute (Zeeman Building)
13:15-13:30 Opening of the LMS Meeting
13:30-14:30 Viveka Erlandsson (University of Bristol) Counting geodesics on surfaces
14:30-14:45 Break
14:45-15:45 Mark Pollicott (University of Warwick Counting geodesic arcs on surfaces with no conjugate points
15:45-16:15 Tea (Mathematics Institute Common Room)
16:15-17:15 Michael Magee (Durham University) Spectral properties of hyperbolic surfaces
17:15-18:30 Wine reception (Mathematics Institute, "The Street")
19:00 Dinner (Scarman Conference Centre Restaurant)
Tuesday 28 March
Lecture theatre MS.04, Mathematics Institute (Zeeman Building)
09:30-10:30 Anders Karlsson (Geneva and Uppsala) Metric spaces, an ergodic theorem and theoretical aspects of deep learning
10:30-11:00 Coffee (Mathematics Common Room)
11:00-12:00 Rhiannon Dougall (Durham) Group extensions and unitary representations
12:00-14:00 Lunch break/informal discussion
14:00-15:00 Dalia Terhesiu (Leiden) Strong mixing for Z^d extensions of hyperbolic dynamical systems
15:00- 15:30 Tea (Mathematics Common Room)
15:30-16:30 Mike Todd (St Andrews) Almost Anosov flows
16:30-18:00 Informal discussion
Wednesday 29 March
Lecture theatre B3.02, Mathematics Institute (Zeeman Building)
09:30-10:30 Manuel Stadlbauder (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) The Poincaré series of a regular cover with a hyperbolic group of deck transformations
10:30-11:00 Coffee (Mathematics Common Room)
11:00-12:00 Timothée Bénard (Cambridge) Inverse problem for the harmonic measure
12:00-14:00 Lunch break/informal discussion
14:00-15:00 Sabrina Kombrink (Birmingham) Asymptotic expansions of functions related to the geometry of fractals
15:00-15:30 Tea (Mathematics Common Room)
15:30-16:30 Ian Morris (Queen Mary University of London) A variational principle relating self-affine measures and self-affine sets
16:30-18:00 Informal discussion
Thursday 30 March
Lecture theatre B3.02, Mathematics Institute (Zeeman Building)
09:30-10:30 Maik Gröger (Jagiellonian University) Continuity of Følner averages
10:30-11:00 Coffee (Mathematics Common Room)
11:00-12:00 Çağrı Sert (Warwick) Stationary measures on projective spaces