Group Actions and Automorphic Forms
Spring 2005 lectures
Regular meeting time:
Tuesdays 11:30 am
Place: Fine PL
| date | speaker | title |
| 1 February | ||
| 8 February | ||
| 15 February | Emmanuel Breuillard, IHES |
The asymptotic shape of metric balls in groups of polynomial growth, and pointwise ergodic theorems |
| 22 February | Akshay Venkatesh, CIMS/Clay |
Existence and Weyl's law for cusp forms |
| 1 March | Tsachik Gelander, Yale University |
Uniform exponential growth, uniform non-amenability and uniform Tits alternative for linear groups (joint with E. Breuillard) |
| 8 March | Boris Kalinin, University of South Alabama |
On smooth classification of Z^k and R^k Cartan actions |
| 15 March | Thomas Ward, University of East Anglia (UK) |
Entropy and topological rigidity |
| 22 March | ||
| 29 March | Werner Müller, Bonn/IAS |
Limit multiplicities of cusp forms |
| 5 April | Dave Witte Morris, University of Lethbridge |
Some arithmetic groups that cannot act on the line |
| 12 April | ||
| 19 April | Alexander Gorodnik, Caltech |
Ergodic theory of semisimple lattices |
| 26 April | ||
| 3 May | Omri Sarig, Penn State University |
Ergodic theory for the horocycle flow on periodic hyperbolic surfaces (joint with F. Ledrappier) |
| 10 May | Dmitry Kleinbock, Brandeis University |
TBA |