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.
If you intend to come to the workshop, please register in the link.
Tuesday, Dec 24 in Lecture Hall 2, Manchester Building
11:30 Registration
12:00-13:00 Omri Solan (Hebrew University)
Limits of compact diagonal orbits in the lattice space
13:00-14:00 Lunch at the Faculty Room, Manchester Building
14:00-15:00 Nattalie Tamam (University of Michigan)
Closure of orbits of the pure mapping class group in the character variety
15:00-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Uri Shapira (Technion)
Aspects of best approximations
Thursday, Dec 26 in Lecture Hall 2, Manchester Building
10:30-11:30 Alex Gamburd (CUNY Graduate Center)
Arithmetic and dynamics on varieties of Markoff type
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-13:00 Elon Lindenstrauss (IAS and Hebrew University)
Effective results regarding the Oppenheim Conjecture and polynomial effective equidistribution
13:15 Conference photo
13:30-14:30 Lunch at the Faculty Room, Manchester Building
14:30-15:30 Peter Sarnak (Princeton and IAS)
Bass-note spectra for Euclidean geometries
15:30-16:00 Colloquium Refreshments
16:00-17:00 Zeev Rudnick (Tel Aviv University)
A number theorist's adventures in the land of spectral theory
Monday, Dec 30 in Lecture Hall 130, IIAS
12:00-13:00 Georgios Kotsovolis (Princeton) on zoom
13:00-14:30 Lunch at the Faculty Room, Manchester Building
14:30-15:30 Peter Sarnak (Princeton and IAS)
Bass-note spectra of hyperbolic geometries
15:30-16:30 Borys Kadets (Hebrew University)
Groups of points on abelian and Jacobian varieties over finite fields
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:00 Alex Smith (UCLA) on zoom
The distribution of conjugates of an algebraic integer
19:00-22:00 Seminar dinner at the Modern Restaurant, Israel Museum
Tuesday, Dec 31 in Eilat Hall, Feldman Building
12:00-13:00 Barak Weiss (Tel Aviv University)
Diophantine approximation on fractals and random walks on the space of lattices and its S-adic extension
13:00-14:00 Lunch at the Faculty Room, Manchester Building
14:00-15:00 Menny Aka (ETH Zurich) on zoom
Effective Disjointness and Joint Equidistribution
15:00-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Amos Nevo (University of Chicago)
Optimal Diophantine exponents and spectral estimates in the automorphic representation
17:15-18:15 Anshul Adve (Princeton) on zoom
Thursday, Jan 2 in Lecture Hall 130, IIAS
11:00-12:00 Peter Sarnak (Princeton and IAS)
Prescribing the spectra of cubic graphs
12:00-12:30 Coffee Break
12:30-13:30 Lior Bary-Soroker (Tel Aviv University)
Irreducibility of the Characteristic Polynomial of Random Tridiagonal Matrices
13:30-14:30 Lunch at the Faculty Room, Manchester Building
14:30–15:30 Snir Ben Ovadia (Penn State) (department colloquium)
Physical Measures for Smooth Dynamical Systems
15:30-16:30 Colloquium Refreshments
16:30-17:30 Bryce Orloski (Penn State) on zoom
Upper Bounds on the Schur-Siegel-Smyth Trace Problem