The seminars are held on Tuesdays at 14:00 in Room B3.02 - Mathematics Institute

Organizers: Peyman Eslami, Simon Baker

Term 1

• 3rd October, 2017
  Selim Ghazouani (Warwick)
  Rauzy-Veech induction for 3-Affine Interval Exchange Transformations
  Bernd Krauskopf (Auckland)
  Lorenz chaos: now even wilder
  
• 10th October, 2017
  Dalia Terhesiu (Exeter)
  Some new statistical properties of piecewise linear Fibonacci maps
  
• 17th October, 2017
  Davide Ravotti (Bristol)
  Parabolic perturbations of unipotent flows
  
• 24th October, 2017
  Fabrizio Bianchi (Imperial)
  Holomorphic motions of Julia sets
  
• 25 October, 2017
  Andrei Ghenciu (Wisconsin Stout)
  Conformal graph directed Markov systems (CGDMSs): beyond finite irreducibility
  
• 31st October, 2017
  Franco Vivaldi (Queen Mary)
  Renormalization in parametric families of polygon-exchange transformations
  
• 7th November, 2017
  Michael Magee (Durham)
  Uniform spectral gap in number theory
  
• 14th November, 2017
  Sina Tureli (Imperial)
  Some Aspects of Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Dynamical Systems
  
• 21st November, 2017
  Daniel Meyer (Liverpool)
  Quasispheres and Expanding Thurston maps
  Alex Clark (Leicester)
  Tiling spaces, quasi-crystals and ergodic theory
  
• 28th November, 2017
  Ian Morris (Surrey)
  Matrix thermodynamic formalism and its applications to affine iterated function systems
  
• 5th December, 2017
  Nikolaos Karaliolios (Imperial)
  Cohomological Rigidity and the Anosov-Katok construction

Term 2

• 9th January, 2018
  George Kenison (Bristol)
  Statistics in conjugacy classes in free groups
  
• 11th January, 2018 (3pm, MS.04)
  Xavier Buff (Toulouse)
  Irreducibility and holomorphic dynamics
  
• 16th January, 2018
  Robert Simon (LSE)
  Non-amenable action and games
  
• 23rd January, 2018
  Ian Melbourne (Warwick)
  Statistical properties of singular hyperbolic attractors
  
• 29th January, 2018 (3pm, B1.01)
  Victor Kleptsyn (Rennes)
  Multiplicative cascades and random metrics on graphs
  
• 30th January, 2018
  Victor Kleptsyn (Rennes)
  Groups acting on the circle
  
• 6th February, 2018
  Christopher Lutsko (Bristol)
  The Lorentz gas: going beyond the Boltzmann-Grad limit
  
• 13th February, 2018
  Yiwei Zhang (Huazhong)
  Understanding physical mixing processes via transfer operator approach
  
• 20th February, 2018
  Jonathan Fraser (St Andrews)
  Dimension and measure for limit sets of Kleinian groups
• 27th February, 2018
  Erez Nesharim (York)
  The t-adic Littlewood conjecture is false
  
• 6th March, 2018
  Christophe Cuny (New Caledonia)
  On the almost sure convergence of series
  
• 13th March, 2018
  Vasso Anagnostopoulou (Queen Mary)
  Sturmian measures in ergodic optimisation
  
• 3rd April, 2018
  Kasun Fernando (Maryland)
  Refinements of the Central Limit Theorem and Large Deviation Principles for weakly dependent random variables
  

Term 3

• 24th April, 2018
  David Sixsmith (Liverpool)
  On simply-connected domains with connected preimage
  
• 26th April, 2018 (2pm B3.03)
  David Sauzin (CNRS - IMCCE Paris)
  Attracted by an elliptic fixed point
  
• 1st May, 2018
  Alexey Korepanov (Exeter)
  Strength of strong approximation with Brownian motion
  
• 8th May, 2018
  Derong Kong (Leiden)
  The beta transformation with a hole at 0
  
• 15th May, 2018
  Richard Sharp (Warwick)
  Representations of surface groups, entropy and zeta functions
  
• 22nd May, 2018
  Mark Pollicott (Warwick)
  Lagrange and Markov Spectra and Cookie Cutters
  
• 29th May, 2018
  Sebastian van strien (Imperial)
  Asymmetric unimodal maps: Feigenbaum-Coullet-Tresser combinatorics with unexpected scalings
  
• 5th June, 2018
  Pieter Allaart (University of North Texas)
  On univoque and strongly univoque sets
  
• 26th June, 2018
  Jairo Bochi (PUC-Chile)
  Extremal norms for linear cocycles