Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems Seminars

Organisers: Thomas Jordan, Henna Koivusalo, Laura Monk, David Parmenter

• Sanju Velani
  Thursday 23rd January 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
  Fry Building, 2.04
  
  
• Charlie Wilson
  Some new results on hitting points infinitely often and limsup sets
  Thursday 30th January 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
  Fry Building, 2.04
  
  
• Ian Melbourne
  Thursday 13th February 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
  Fry Building, 2.04
  
  
• Nattalie Tamam
  Thursday 20th February 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
  Fry Building, 2.04
  
  
• Sam Kittle
  Thursday 27th February 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
  Fry Building, 2.04
  
  
• Ana de Orellana
  Thursday 6th March 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
  Fry Building, 2.04
  
  
• Ian Morris
  Thursday 13th March 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
  Fry Building, 2.04
  
  
• Yulin Gong
  Thursday 20th March 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
  Fry Building, 2.04
  
  
• Péter Varjú
  Thursday 27th March 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
  Fry Building, 2.04
  
  

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• Francesca Tripaldi
  Thursday 6th February 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
  Fry Building, Room 2.04
  
  
• Melanie Rupflin
  Thursday 13th February 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
  Fry Building, Room 2.04
  
  
• Katie Gittins
  Thursday 20th February 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
  Fry Building, Room 2.04
  
  
• Bram Petri
  Thursday 13th March 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
  Fry Building, Room 2.04
  
  

• Mark Holland
  On Distribution Limit Laws for Recurrence.
  Thursday 5th December 2024
  
  
• Tanja Schindler
  Properties and limit laws of dynamical systems with two infinite components
  Thursday 28th November 2024
  
  
• Alexey Korepanov
  Memory loss near the boundary of null recurrence for Harris recurrent Markov chains and infinite measure preserving intermittent dynamical systems
  Thursday 21st November 2024
  
  
• Igor Wigman
  Around the Gauss circle problem: Hardy's conjecture and the distribution of lattice points near circles
  Thursday 14th November 2024
  
  
• Katy Loyd
  Pointwise ergodic averages along sequences of slow growth
  Thursday 7th November 2024
  
  
• Mike Hochman
  New results on embedding of self-similar sets
  Thursday 31st October 2024
  
  
• Shreyasi Datta
  Fourier Asymptotics and Effective Equidistribition
  Thursday 24th October 2024
  
  
• Matthew Tointon
  Thursday 17th October 2024
  
  
• Han Yu
  Gallagher on possibly flat hypersurfaces
  Thursday 10th October 2024
  
  
• Kasun Fernando
  Asymptotic properties of an estimator for space averages in chaotic dynamical systems
  Thursday 3rd October 2024
  
  
• Irene Pasquinelli
  Mapping class group orbit closures for non-orientable surfaces
  Thursday 6th June 2024
  
  
• Simon Machado
  Brunn—Minkowski in compact Lie groups
  Thursday 2nd May 2024
  
  
• Jamie Walton
  Cut and projects, substitutions and patterns that are both
  Thursday 25th April 2024
  
  
• Chris Lutsko
  Hyperbolic lattice point counting in unbounded rank
  Thursday 18th April 2024
  
  
• Ronnie Pavlov
  Subshifts with very low word complexity
  Thursday 18th April 2024
  
  
• Joe Myers Hill
  Mixing in non-monotonic piecewise-linear toral maps
  Thursday 14th March 2024
  
  
• Simon Baker
  Polynomial Fourier decay for fractal measures and their pushforwards
  Thursday 7th March 2024
  
  
• Xintian Zhang
  Hausdorff dimension of the set of \psi-badly approximable points on R^d
  Thursday 29th February 2024
  
  
• Mike Todd
  Continuity of measures in nonuniformly hyperbolic settings
  Thursday 15th February 2024
  
  
• Wooyeon Kim
  The set of exceptions to the inhomogeneous uniform version of Littlewood conjecture
  Thursday 8th February 2024
  
  
• Petra Staynova
  On Arithmetic Progressions in Substitution Sequences
  Thursday 1st February 2024
  
  
• Joel Moreira
  Partition Regularity of Pythagorean Pairs
  Thursday 25th January 2024
  
  
• Jonathan Fraser
  The Assouad spectrum of Gatzouras-Lalley carpets
  Monday 8th January 2024
  
  
• Victor Shirandami
  Dense Forests Constructed from Grids
  Thursday 14th December 2023
  
  
• Gabriel Fuhrmann
  On the lack of equidistribution on fat Cantor sets
  Thursday 7th December 2023
  
  
• Donald Robertson
  Sumsets and Ergodic Decompositions
  Thursday 30th November 2023
  
  
• Viveka Erlandsson
  Counting geodesics of given commutator length
  Thursday 23rd November 2023
  
  
• Alex Rutar
  Assouad dimension and tangents of dynamically invariant sets
  Thursday 16th November 2023
  
  
• Maryam Hosseini
  Dimension Group and Zero Dimensional Dynamical Systems
  Thursday 9th November 2023
  
  
• Sean Prendiville
  A multidimensional version of a nonlinear Roth theorem
  Thursday 2nd November 2023
  
  
• David Parmenter
  Constructing equilibrium states for some hyperbolic systems
  Thursday 26th October 2023
  
  
• Sam Chow
  Inhomogeneous Kaufman measures and diophantine approximation
  Thursday 19th October 2023
  
  
• Hamed Mousavi
  Pointwise ergodic theorem along the primes
  Thursday 12th October 2023
  
  
• Jean Lagacé
  Distribution statistics for cut-and-project sets
  Thursday 5th October 2023
  
  
• Yaar Solomon
  Periodicity of joint co-tiles in Z^d.
  Wednesday 20th September 2023
  
  
• Ian Morris
  Exceptional self-affine sets and projections
  Monday 7th August 2023
  
  
• Yann Chaubet
  Dynamical zeta functions counting triangles and Betti numbers
  Thursday 8th June 2023
  
  
• Tony Samuel
  On β-shifts with a hole
  Thursday 1st June 2023
  
  
• Tuomas Sahlsten
  Quantum chaos on random surfaces
  Thursday 27th April 2023
  
  
• Amlan Banaji
  Dimensions of infinitely generated self-conformal sets
  Thursday 20th April 2023
  
  
• Gaëtan Borot
  An introduction to topological recursion
  Thursday 6th April 2023
  
  
• Faustin Adiceam *rescheduled to noon*
  Badly approximable vectors and Littlewood-type problems
  Thursday 30th March 2023
  
  
• Alexander Strohmaier
  Wave trace expansions in obstacle scattering and their application to the Casimir effect
  Thursday 23rd March 2023
  
  
• Oleksiy Klurman
  Furstenberg systems of multiplicative functions and beyond
  Thursday 9th March 2023
  
  
• Reem Yassawi
  Torsion-free S-adic shifts and their spectrum
  Thursday 2nd March 2023
  
  
• Ben Krause
  Pointwise Ergodic Theory II
  Thursday 16th February 2023
  
  
• Nalini Anantharaman
  On a result by Dang and Rivière
  Thursday 9th February 2023
  
  
• Sabrina Kombrink
  Parallel volumes and spectral counting functions for fractals
  Thursday 2nd February 2023
  
  
• Polina Vytnova
  Dimension function of the Lagrange and Markov spectra
  Thursday 26th January 2023
  
  
• Xintian Zhang *cancelled*
  The talk has been cancelled
  Thursday 15th December 2022
  
  
• Michal Rams
  Cocycles of circle diffeomorphisms
  Thursday 8th December 2022
  
  
• Timothée Bénard
  Local limit theorem on nilpotent Lie groups
  Thursday 1st December 2022
  
  
• Natalia Jurga
  Cover times in dynamical systems
  Thursday 17th November 2022
  
  
• William Hide
  Short geodesics and small eigenvalues on random hyperbolic punctured spheres
  Thursday 10th November 2022
  
  
• Jory Griffin
  The Low-Density Limit of the Quantum Lorentz Gas
  Thursday 3rd November 2022
  
  
• Thomas Jordan
  The shrinking target problem for certain self-affine systems.
  Thursday 27th October 2022
  
  
• David Parmenter
  Gibbs measures for hyperbolic attractors defined by densities
  Thursday 13th October 2022
  
  
• Giovanni Forni
  Effective ergodicity of nilflows and bound on Weyl sums
  Thursday 6th October 2022
  
  
• Sascha Troscheit
  Analytical properties of real valued functions through continuum trees
  Thursday 14th July 2022
  
  
• Selim Ghazouani
  Generic dynamics and affine structures on surfaces
  Wednesday 1st June 2022
  
  
• Niloofar Kiamari
  Locating Ruelle-Pollicott resonances
  Thursday 26th May 2022
  
  
• Thomas Witdouck
  On closed manifolds admitting an Anosov diffeomorphism but no expanding map
  Thursday 19th May 2022
  
  
• Sascha Troscheit
  The box-counting dimension in one-dimensional random geometry of multiplicative cascades
  Thursday 5th May 2022
  
  
• Samuel Edwards
  Mixing, counting, and equidistribution for higher-rank homogeneous spaces of infinite volume
  Thursday 28th April 2022
  
  
• Farhad Babaee
  Dynamical Tropicalisation
  Thursday 31st March 2022
  
  
• Benjamin Ward
  The measure of Badly approximable sets
  Thursday 24th March 2022
  
  
• Aernout van Enter
  One-sided versus two-sided regularity properties
  Thursday 17th March 2022
  
  
• Demi Allen
  An inhomogeneous Khintchine-Groshev Theorem without monotonicity
  Thursday 10th March 2022
  
  
• Meng Wu
  All self-conformal measures are uniform scaling
  Thursday 3rd March 2022
  
  
• Örjan Stenflo
  Random iterations of homeomorphisms on the circle
  Thursday 24th February 2022
  
  
• Yotam Smilansky
  Order and disorder in multiscale substitution tilings
  Thursday 10th February 2022
  
  
• Michał Rams
  Weighted Cesaro averages
  Thursday 3rd February 2022
  
  
• Laura Monk
  The spectral gap of random hyperbolic surfaces
  Thursday 16th December 2021
  
  
• Felix Flicker *notice unusual time*
  *New title* Hamiltonian cycles on Ammann Beenker tilings
  Thursday 9th December 2021
  
  
• Leticia Pardo Simon
  Transcendental entire functions with Cantor bouquet Julia sets
  Thursday 2nd December 2021
  
  
• Balazs Barany
  Dynamically defined subsets of generic self-affine sets
  Thursday 25th November 2021
  
  
• *Cancelled* Gabriella Keszthelyi
  Thursday 18th November 2021
  
  
• Solly Coles
  Helicity and linking for 3-dimensional Anosov flows
  Thursday 11th November 2021
  
  
• Dalia Terhesiu
  On periodic Lorentz gases with small scatterers
  Thursday 4th November 2021
  
  
• Dan Rust
  Substitutions on compact alphabet
  Thursday 28th October 2021
  
  
• Michael Bersudsky
  Linnik's problem and statistics of orthogonal grids of primitive integral vectors
  Thursday 21st October 2021
  
  
• Simon Baker
  Normal numbers and self-similar measures.
  Thursday 14th October 2021
  
  
• Mark Holland
  Dichotomy results for eventually always hitting time statistics and almost sure growth of extremes
  Thursday 7th October 2021
  
  
• Emmanuel Breuillard
  Approximate lattices and quasi-crystals
  Thursday 17th June 2021
  
  
• Lawrence Lee
  L^q-spectra of measures on non-conformal attractors
  Thursday 6th May 2021
  
  
• Surabhi Desai
  Dynamical Borel-Cantelli lemmas of intermittent maps
  Thursday 29th April 2021
  
  
• Tal Horesh
  Distribution of primitive lattices and their flags
  Thursday 22nd April 2021
  
  
• Jens Marklof
  The three gap theorem in higher dimensions
  Thursday 25th March 2021
  
  
• Godofredo Iommi
  The Halász-Székely Barycenter
  Thursday 18th March 2021
  
  
• Krystal Taylor *unusual time*
  Quantifications of the Besicovitch Projection theorem in a nonlinear setting
  Thursday 11th March 2021
  
  
• Zemer Kosloff
  Factors of non-stationary Bernoulli shifts
  Thursday 4th March 2021
  
  
• Asaf Katz
  Measure rigidity of Anosov flows via the factorization method
  Thursday 25th February 2021
  
  
• Sascha Troscheit
  A dimension theory approach to embeddings in random geometry.
  Thursday 18th February 2021
  
  
• Baowei Wang
  Intrinsic Diophantine approximation on triadic Cantor set: the divergence theory
  Thursday 4th February 2021
  
  
• Charlene Kalle
  Critical intermittency in random dynamical systems
  Thursday 10th December 2020
  
  
• Antti Käenmäki
  Super-exponential condensation without exact overlaps
  Thursday 3rd December 2020
  
  
• Tushar Das
  New results in the dimension theory of continued fraction Cantor sets
  Thursday 26th November 2020
  
  
• Bassam Fayad
  Multilple Borel Cantelli lemma and applications
  Thursday 26th November 2020
  
  
• Kornelia Hera *unusual time*
  Hausdorff dimension of unions of affine subspaces and related problems
  Thursday 19th November 2020
  
  
• Osama Khalil *unusual time*
  Random Walks, Spectral Gaps, and Khinchine Theorem on Fractals
  Thursday 12th November 2020
  
  
• Wenyu Pan
  Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps
  Thursday 5th November 2020
  
  
• Nguyen-Thi Dang
  Topological mixing of the Weyl Chamber flow
  Thursday 29th October 2020
  
  
• Reem Yassawi *unusual time*
  Tame or wild Toeplitz shifts
  Thursday 22nd October 2020
  
  
• Polina Vytnova
  Hausdorff dimension estimates: going beyond periodic points
  Thursday 22nd October 2020
  
  
• Matthew Welsh
  Pair correlation for roots of quadratic congruences
  Thursday 8th October 2020
  
  
• Henna Koivusalo
  Path-dependent, shrinking, moving targets and beyond, on generic self-affine sets
  Thursday 1st October 2020
  
  
• Felipe Perez
  Limit laws for intermittent sequential and random dynamical systems
  Thursday 18th June 2020
  
  
• Tom Kempton
  Measures on distances between polynomials.
  Thursday 11th June 2020
  
  
• Victor Beresnevich
  Badly approximable points: games, measures and dynamics
  Thursday 28th May 2020
  
  
• Joel Moreira
  Multiple recurrence for polynomial and non-polynomial sequences
  Thursday 21st May 2020
  
  
• Pablo Shmerkin
  Covering the Sierpinski carpet by tubes
  Thursday 14th May 2020
  
  
• Tanja Schindler
  Multifractal analysis of the Thue--Morse measure
  Thursday 7th May 2020
  
  
• Alexia Yavicoli
  On the dimension of sets that avoid approximate arithmetic progressions
  Thursday 23rd April 2020
  
  
• Erik Contreras
  K-rational approximations in k-Luroth expansions
  Thursday 16th April 2020
  
  
• Erik Contreras (Seminar cancelled)
  Thursday 26th March 2020
  
  
• Felipe Perez (seminar cancelled)
  Thursday 19th March 2020
  
  
• Charles Walkden
  Stability Index and Weierstrass Functions
  Thursday 12th March 2020
  
  
• Reynold Fregoli
  Bounded Exponential Sums
  Thursday 5th March 2020
  
  
• Istvan Kolossvary
  Typical self-similar and self-conformal attractors on the line
  Thursday 27th February 2020
  
  
• Liviana Palmisano
  Attractors and their stability.
  Thursday 6th February 2020
  
  
• Connor Stevens
  Fourier Transforms of nonlinear Markov map invariant measures
  Thursday 30th January 2020
  
  
• Julia Slipantschuk
  Pollicott-Ruelle resonances for analytic expanding and hyperbolic maps
  Thursday 19th December 2019
  
  
• Jason Levesley
  Dirichlet Systems, singular points and extremal sets
  Thursday 12th December 2019
  
  
• Maik Gröger
  Dimension gap, escaping sets and thermodynamic formalism for transient dynamics on the real line
  Thursday 5th December 2019
  
  
• John Mackay – POSTPONED
  Decompositions of hyperbolic groups and conformal dimension
  Thursday 28th November 2019
  
  
• Tuomas Sahlsten
  Obstructions to localisation of functions in both position and momentum at fractals
  Thursday 21st November 2019
  
  
• Carlangelo Liverani
  Quantitive statistical properties for partially hyperbolic system
  Thursday 14th November 2019
  
  
• Simon Baker
  The metric Poissonian property for powers of real numbers
  Thursday 7th November 2019
  
  
• Selim Ghazouani
  Linearisation of smooth interval exchange transformations
  Thursday 31st October 2019
  
  
• Jonathan Fraser
  Kleinian groups, parabolic points, and dimension
  Thursday 24th October 2019
  
  
• Gwyneth Stallard
  Wandering domains in complex dynamics
  Thursday 17th October 2019
  
  
• Natalia Jurga
  Effective estimates on the top Lyapunov exponent of random matrix products
  Thursday 10th October 2019
  
  
• Thomas Jordan
  Dimension of ergodic measures projected onto self-similar sets
  Thursday 3rd October 2019
  
  
• Douglas Coates
  Semistable laws for wobbly intermittent maps
  Thursday 13th June 2019
  
  
• Ariel Rapaport
  Dimension of planar self-affine measures
  Thursday 6th June 2019
  
  
• Neil Dobbs
  Knobbly but nice
  Thursday 30th May 2019
  
  
• Ian Morris
  A dimension gap between self-affine measures and self-affine sets.
  Tuesday 28th May 2019
  
  
• Ana Rodrigues
  Recent advances on fair measures and fair entropy
  Thursday 23rd May 2019
  
  
• Kevin Hughes
  Towards quantitative equidistribution theorems in harmonic analysis
  Thursday 16th May 2019
  
  
• Detta Dickinson
  *CANCELLED* The distribution of algebraic conjugate points in small boxes
  Thursday 16th May 2019
  
  
• Ofer Shwartz
  Cancelled
  Thursday 9th May 2019
  
  
• Catherine Bruce
  Projections of Gibbs measures on self-conformal sets
  Thursday 2nd May 2019
  
  
• Xin Zhang
  Fine scale statistics of fractal sets
  Thursday 4th April 2019
  
  
• Çağrı Sert
  The joint spectrum
  Thursday 21st March 2019
  
  
• Balázs Bárány
  Hausdorff dimension of self-similar measures with complicated overlaps
  Thursday 21st March 2019
  
  
• Ian Morris
  *Cancelled* A dimension gap between self-affine measures and self-affine sets.
  Thursday 14th March 2019
  
  
• Italo Cipriano
  Time change for flows
  Thursday 28th February 2019
  
  
• Yuri Lima
  Markov partitions for billiards
  Thursday 21st February 2019
  
  
• Pedro Peres
  Existence of non-trivial embeddings of Interval Exchange Transformations into Piecewise Isometries
  Thursday 7th February 2019
  
  
• Demi Allen
  Approximation on the Cantor set and some of its inhomogeneous friends
  Thursday 31st January 2019
  
  
• Federica Fanoni
  Curve graphs for infinite-type surfaces
  Thursday 20th December 2018
  
  
• George Kenison
  Skolem's problem and prime powers
  Thursday 13th December 2018
  
  
• Stephen Cantrell
  Comparing word length with displacement for actions on CAT(-1) spaces
  Thursday 6th December 2018
  
  
• Leticia Pardo Simon
  Escaping dynamics of a class of transcendental functions
  Thursday 29th November 2018
  
  
• Yotam Smilansky
  Multiscale substitution schemes and Kakutani sequences of partitions
  Thursday 22nd November 2018
  
  
• Richard Sharp
  Representations of surface groups, zeta functions and counting
  Thursday 15th November 2018
  
  
• Felipe Perez
  Dimension of measures with infinite entropy
  Thursday 25th October 2018
  
  
• Chris Lutsko
  Directions in Orbits of Discrete Hyperbolic Subgroups
  Thursday 18th October 2018
  
  
• Pablo Shmerkin
  Some new results and some open questions about the middle-thirds Cantor set
  Thursday 11th October 2018
  
  
• Rhiannon Dougall
  Critical exponents for normal subgroups via a twisted Bowen-Margulis current
  Thursday 4th October 2018
  
  
• Danijela Damjanovic
  Global rigidity for Anosov actions
  Thursday 7th June 2018
  
  
• Michael Magee
  Thermodynamical approach to the Markoff-Hurwitz equation
  Thursday 24th May 2018
  
  
• Yiannis Konstantoulas
  Symplectic geometry of numbers
  Thursday 17th May 2018
  
  
• David Simmons
  Title: Dimension gaps in self-affine sponges
  Thursday 10th May 2018
  
  
• Gabriele Mondello
  On some properties of spherical surfaces with conical singularities and their moduli spaces
  Thursday 3rd May 2018
  
  
• Kathryn Spalding
  Growth of values of binary quadratic forms and Conway rivers
  Thursday 26th April 2018
  
  
• Livio Flaminio
  Nil-sequences, multiplicative functions and asymptotic orthogonal powers
  Thursday 19th April 2018
  
  
• Gabriel Paternain
  Carleman estimates for geodesic X-ray transforms.
  Thursday 22nd March 2018
  
  
• Alex Gorodnik
  Discrepancy in Geometry of Numbers and Dynamics
  Thursday 15th March 2018
  
  
• Irene Pasquinelli
  Deligne-Mostow lattices and cone metrics on the sphere
  Thursday 8th March 2018
  
  
• Ofir David
  Equidistribution of divergent orbits in the space of lattices
  Thursday 1st March 2018
  
  
• Christopher Leininger
  Dynamics of splittings of free-by-cyclic groups
  Thursday 22nd February 2018
  
  
• Henna Koivusalo
  Cut and project sets, linear repetition of patterns, and the Littlewood conjecture
  Thursday 15th February 2018
  
  
• Giovanni Forni
  On Mixing rates for time-changes of Heisenberg Nilflows
  Monday 8th January 2018
  
  
• Oliver Sargent
  Random walks on homogeneous spaces of non-lattice type
  Thursday 14th December 2017
  
  
• Mariusz Lemanczyk
  Moebius orthogonality in dynamics
  Thursday 30th November 2017
  
  
• Vladimir Finkelshtein
  Diophantine approximation problems for groups of toral automorphisms.
  Thursday 23rd November 2017
  
  
• Michael Bromberg
  Temporal distributional limit theorem for cocycles over rotations
  Thursday 16th November 2017
  
  
• George Kenison
  Statistics in conjugacy classes in free groups
  Thursday 9th November 2017
  
  
• Natalia Jurga
  Dimension of Bernoulli measures for non-linear countable Markov maps
  Thursday 2nd November 2017
  
  
• Mike Todd
  Phase transitions and limit laws
  Thursday 26th October 2017
  
  
• Kevin Hughes
  Towards an ergodic Hasse principle
  Thursday 19th October 2017
  
  
• Kieran Jarrett
  Non-singular ergodic theorems for countable group actions
  Thursday 12th October 2017
  
  
• Dalia Terhesiu
  Some new statistical properties of piecewise linear Fibonacci maps
  Thursday 5th October 2017
  
  
• Chris Lutsko
  Thursday 30th March 2017
  
  

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