On December 26 2024 (Thursday), December 30 2024 (Monday) and January 2 2024 (Thursday), Prof. Peter Clive Sarnak (Princeton, IAS) will be giving the Gordon lectures at the Einstein institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The first two lectures will be concerned with the Bass note of locally-uniform geometries, and the last lecture will be on gaps in spectra of Frobenius and of graph eigenvalues. Accompanying the lectures, there will be a workshop on dynamics and number theory, with talks given on two days of every week of the visit.

 

Tuesday, Dec 24 in Lecture Hall 2
12:00-13:00 Omri Solan (Hebrew University)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Nattalie Tamam (University of Michigan)
15:00-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Uri Shapira (Technion)

Thursday, Dec 26 in Lecture Hall 2
10:30-11:30 Alex Gamburd (CUNY Graduate Center)
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-13:00 Elon Lindenstrauss (IAS and Hebrew University)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Peter Sarnak (Princeton and IAS)
15:30-16:00 Colloquium Refreshments
16:00-17:00 Zeev Rudnick (Tel Aviv University)

Monday, Dec 30 in Lecture Hall 130 IIAS
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Peter Sarnak (Princeton and IAS)
15:30-16:30 Borys Kadets (Hebrew University)
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:00 Alex Smith (UCLA) (on zoom)
TBD: Seminar dinner

Tuesday, Dec 31 in Manchester and Ross buildings
12:00-13:00 Barak Weiss (Tel Aviv University) in Manchester lobby
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Menny Aka (ETH Zurich) on zoom in Ross 70
15:00-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Amos Nevo (University of Chicago) in Ross 70

Thursday, Jan 2 in Lecture Hall 2
10:30-11:30 Peter Sarnak (Princeton and IAS)
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-13:00 Lior Bary-Soroker (Tel Aviv University)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:30–15:30 Snir Ben Ovadia (Penn State) (department colloquium)
15:30-16:30 Colloquium Refreshments
16:30-17:30 Bryce Orloski (Penn State) on zoom