Topological ideas have at various times played an important role in condensed matter physics. This year's Nobel Prize recognized the origins of a particular application of great current interest: the classification of phases of a quantum mechanical system. Mathematically, we would like describe them as path components of a moduli space, but that is not rigorously defined as of now. In joint work with Mike Hopkins we apply
stable homotopy theory (Adams spectral sequence) to compute the group of
topological phases of "invertible" systems. We posit a continuum field

Title: Ultra-Products and Chromatic Homotopy Theory.
Abstract:
The category of spectra is one of the most important constructions in modern algebraic topology,

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.

Let $A$, $B$ be two rational functions of degree at least two on the Riemann sphere.
The function $B$ is said to be semiconjugate to the function $A$ if there exists a non-constant rational function $X$ such that the equality (*) A\circ X=X\circ B holds.

20 years ago Benjy Weiss constructed a collection of non-trivial translation invariant probability measures on the space of entire functions. In this talk we will present a construction of such a measure, and give upper and lower bounds for the possible growth of entire functions in the support of such a measure. We will also discuss "uniformly recurrent" entire functions, their connection to such constructions, and their possible growth. The talk is based on a joint work with Lev Buhovski, Alexander Loganov, and Mikhail Sodin.

We give a brief overview on applications of the Poincare's equation to the study of random walk on the the Sierpi ́nski gasket. In particular, we discuss such questions as anomalous diffusion, relation to branching processes and decimation invariance. Metods of the complex analysis and the iteration theory are used to deal with the aforemen-tioned problems.

Arithmetic Kleinian groups generated by elements of finite order Abstract: We show that up to commensurability there are only finitely many cocompact arithmetic Kleinian groups generated by rotations. The proof is based on a generalised Gromov-Guth inequality and bounds for the hyperbolic and tube volumes of the quotient orbifolds. To estimate the hyperbolic volume we take advantage of known results towards Lehmer's problem. The tube volume estimate requires study of triangulations of lens spaces which may be of independent interest.

Abstract:
We will present an elementary problem and a conjecture regarding percolation on planar graphs suggested by assuming quasi invariance of percolation crossing probabilities under coarse conformal uniformization.

Let S be a finite set (the sample space), and 
f_i: S -> R functions, for 1 ≤ i ≤ k. Given a k-tuple (v_1,...,v_k) in R^k
it is natural to ask: 
What is the distribution P on S that maximizes the entropy
      -Σ P(x) log(P(x))
subject to the constraint that the expectation of f_i be v_i?
In this talk I'll discuss a closed formula for the solution P
in terms of a sum over cumulant trees. This is based on a general calculus
for solving perturbative optimization problems due to Feynman, which may be
of interest in its own right. 

Abstract: This talk will introduce the notion of Gaussian and almost Gaussian log-correlated fields. These are a class of random (or almost random) functions many of whose statistics are predicted to coincide in a large system-size limit. Examples of these objects include:
(1) the logarithm of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line (conjecturally)
(2) the log-characteristic polynomial of Haar distributed unitary random matrices (and others),
(3) the deviations of Birkhoff sums of substitution dynamical systems (conjecturally)

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.