Abstract: In this talk, I'll show the invalidity of finitary counterparts for three main theorems in classification theory: The preservation of being a Bernoulli shift through factors, Sinai's factor theorem, and the weak Pinsker property. This gives a negative answer to an old conjecture and to a recent open problem.

Title: On the spacing of zeros of paraorthogonal polynomials for singular measures
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We consider a locally finite (Radon) measure on SO(d,1)/Gamma
invariant under a horospherical subgroup of SO(d,1) where Gamma is a discrete, but not necessarily geometrically finite, subgroup. We show that whenever the measure does not observe any additional invariance properties then it must be supported on a set of points with geometrically degenerate trajectories under the corresponding contracting 1-parameter diagonalizable flow (geodesic flow). This is joint work with Elon Lindenstrauss.

Abstract: I will present some results that state that under certain
topological conditions, any action of a countable amenable group with
positive topological entropy admits off-diagonal asymptotic pairs. I
shall explain the latest results on this topic and present a new
approach, inspired from thermodynamical formalism and developed in
collaboration with Felipe García-Ramos and Hanfeng Li, which unifies all
previous results and yields new classes of algebraic actions for which

The talk is based on the paper : https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02930

Abstract: A spanning tree of a graph G is a subgraph with the same vertex set which is a tree. In 1981, McKay proved an asymptotic result regarding the number of spanning trees in random k-regular graphs. In this talk we will discuss an analogous result for certain random simplicial complexes (All terms will be explained in the talk).
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The talk is based on a joint work with Lior Tenenbaum.

Elon Lindenstrauss "Arithmetic applications of diagonal flows"
I will give an introduction to the dynamics of higher rank diagonal flows on homogeneous spaces,
including both the rigidity theorems of such flows and their applications to orbits of arithmetic interest,
in particular CM points and integer points on spheres.
I hope to cover parts of the following papers:
Einsiedler, Manfred ; Lindenstrauss, Elon ; Michel, Philippe ; Venkatesh, Akshay . The distribution of closed geodesics

Tentative syllabus
1. Mathematical models of classical and quantum mechanics.
2. Correspondence principle and quantization.
3. Classical and quantum computation: gates, circuits, algorithms
(Shor, Grover). Solovay-Kitaev. Some ideas of cryptography
4. Quantum noise and measurement, and rigidity of the Poisson bracket.
5. Noisy classical and quantum computing and error correction, threshold theorem- quantum fault tolerance (small noise is good for quantum computation). Kitaev's surface code.

Tomer Schlank "Prismatic cohomology" (after Bhatt and Scholze)
Abstract: We shall discuss (Weil) cohomology theories for algebraic varieties.
When working with schemes over p-complete rings and taking cohomologies with p-complete coefficients one gets a plurality of such cohomology theories (e'tale, De-Rahm, Crystalline, etc.. ). The comparison between these different cohomology theories is a subtle subject known as "p-adic hodge theory" .

Title: Extending the Spectral Radius to Finite-Dimensional Power-Associative Algebras
Abstract: The purpose of this talk is to introduce a new concept, the \textit{radius} of elements in arbitrary finite-dimensional power-associative algebras over the field of real or complex numbers. It is an extension of the well known notion of the spectral radius.
As examples, we shall discuss this new radius in the setting of matrix algebras, where it indeed reduces to the spectral radius, and then in the Cayley-Dickson algebras, where it is something quite different.