2016 Jun 07

Dynamics & probability: Hillel Furstenberg (HUJI): Algebraic numbers and homogeneous flows

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location:

Manchester building, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Room 209)
2016 Jan 12

Dynamics & prob. [NOTE SPECIAL TIME!!], Yonatan Gutman (IMPAN) - Optimal embedding of minimal systems into shifts on Hilbert cubes

1:45pm to 2:45pm

Location:

Manchester building, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Room 209)
In the paper "Mean dimension, small entropy factors and an
embedding theorem, Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math 89 (1999)
227-262", Lindenstrauss showed that minimal systems of mean dimension
less than $cN$ for $c=1/36$ embed equivariantly into the Hilbert cubical
shift $([0,1]^N)^{\mathbb{Z}}$, and asked what is the optimal value
for $c$. We solve this problem by proving that $c=1/2$. The method of
proof is surprising and uses signal analysis sampling theory. Joint
work with Masaki Tsukamoto.
2016 Mar 08

Dynamics lunch seminar: Brandon Seward (HUJI): Entropy theory for non-amenable groups (part I)

12:00pm to 1:45pm

Location:

Ross 70
Entropy was first defined for actions of the integers by Kolmogorov in 1958 and then extended to actions of countable amenable groups by Kieffer in 1975. Recently, there has been a surge of research in entropy theory following groundbreaking work of Lewis Bowen in 2008 which defined entropy for actions of sofic groups. In this mini-course I will cover these recent developments. I will carefully define the notions of sofic entropy (for actions of sofic groups) and Rokhlin entropy (for actions of general countable groups), discuss many of the main results, and go through some of the proofs.
2016 Jun 07

Dynamics lunch:Asaf Katz - Uniqueness of measure of maximal entropy

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Manchester building, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Coffee lounge)
2016 Jan 05

Dynamics lunch: Sebastian Donoso (HUJI) - Automorphism groups of low complexity subshifts

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Manchester building, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Coffee lounge)
Abstract: The automorphism group of a subshift $(X,\sigma)$ is the group of homeomorphisms of $X$ that commute with $\sigma$. It is known that such groups can be extremely large for positive entropy subshifts (like full shifts or mixing SFT). In this talk I will present some recent progress in the understanding of the opposite case, the low complexity one. I will show that automorphism groups are highly constrained for low complexity subshifts. For instance, for a minimal subshifts with sublinear complexity the automorphism group is generated by the shift and a finite set.
2016 May 31

Dynamics lunch: Yuri Kifer (HUJI) - On Erdos-Renyi law of large numbers and its extensions

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Manchester building, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Coffee lounge)
2016 May 10

Dynamics lunch: Ori Gurel Gurevitch (HUJI), Stationary random graphs

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Manchester building, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Coffee lounge)
2016 Mar 22

Dynamics lunch seminar: Brandon Seward (HUJI): Entropy theory for non-amenable groups (part III)

12:00pm to 1:45pm

Ross 70
2015 Dec 29

Dynamics lunch: Tom Gilat (HUJI): "Measure rigidity for `dense' multiplicative semigroups (following Einsiedler and Fish)"

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Manchester building, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Coffee lounge)
2016 Jun 21

Dynamics lunch: Genadi Levin - Monotonicity of entropy in real quadratic family'

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Manchester building, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Coffee lounge)
2016 Jan 12

Dynamics lunch: Brandon Seward (HUJI), "Borel chromatic numbers of free groups"

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Manchester building, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Coffee lounge)
Borel chromatic numbers of free groups
Abstract:
Recall that a coloring of a graph is a labeling of its vertices such that
no pair of vertices joined by an edge have the same label. The chromatic
number of a graph is the smallest number of colors for which there is a
coloring.
If G is a finitely generated group with generating set S, then for any free
action of G on a standard Borel space X, we can place a copy of the
S-Cayley graph of G onto every orbit. This results in a graph whose vertex
2016 May 17

Dynamics lunch: Elon Lindenstrauss (HUJI) - Bilu's theorem

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Manchester building, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Coffee lounge)
I will describe Bilu's equidistribution theorem for roots of polynomials, and explain some implications this has on entropy of toral automorphisms.
2016 Apr 05

Dynamics lunch: Shahar Mozes (HUJI) - Margulis inequalities

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Manchester building, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Coffee lounge)
2016 Jan 20

Topology & geometry, Matan Prasma (Radboud University), "Model-categorical cotangent complex formalism"

11:00am to 12:45pm

Location:

Ross building, Hebrew University (Seminar Room 70A)
Abstract: One of the first applications of model categories was Quillen homology. Building on the notion of Beck modules, one defines the cotangent complex of an associative or commutative (dg)-algebras as the derived functor of its abelianization. The latter is a module over the original algebra, and its homology groups are called the (Andre'-)Quillen homology. The caveat of this approach is that the cotangent complex is not defined as a functor on the category of all algebras.
2015 Nov 11

Topology & geometry: Cy Maor (HUJI), "Limits of elastic energies of converging Riemannian manifolds"

11:00am to 12:45pm

Location:

Ross building, Hebrew University (Seminar Room 70A)
Abstract: An elastic energy functional of a Riemannian manifold  is a function that measures the distance of an embedding u:→ℝd from being isometric. In many applications, the manifold in consideration is actually a limit of other manifolds, that is,  is a limit of n in some sense. Assuming that we have an elastic energy functional for each n, can we obtain an energy functional of  which is a limit of the functionals of n?