Overview
Chaotic structures have become a hot topic in a wide spectrum of mathematics
and physics ranging form number theory to fluid dynamics and statistical
mechanics. The Symposium will focus on recent advances, many of which
have roots in ideas developed by Yakov Sinai.
Invited Speakers
Artur Avila (IMPA and Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu)
Vitaly Bergelson (Ohio State)
Alexy Borodin (MIT)
Vadim Kaloshin (University of Maryland and Penn State)
Fedor Nazarov (University of Wisconsin)
Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley)
Stas Smirnov (University of Geneva)
Symposium Schedule
| Thursday February 24
- Fields Institute Room 230 |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Vitaly Bergelson (Ohio State)
Dynamical systems with continuous spectrum: some recent results
and open problems |
| 3:30 - 4:30 |
Distinguished Lecture Series
Yakov Sinai, Princeton University
Singularities of complex-valued solutions of the 2D Burgers
system |
| Friday February 25 -
Fields Institute 3rd Floor Stewart Library |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Vadim Kaloshin (University of Maryland and
Penn State)
Crumpled invariant cylinders and Arnold diffusion in arbitrary
degrees of freedom |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 12:20 |
Artur Avila (IMPA and Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu)
KAM, Lyapunov exponents, and the spectral dichotomy for
one-frequency
Schrodinger operators |
| 12:30 - 2:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 2:30 - 3:30 |
Fedor Nazarov (University of Wisconsin)
TBA |
| Saturday February 26
- Bahen Centre Room 1240 |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley)
Laplacian growth and the mystery of the abelian sandpile
|
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
Alexy Borodin (MIT)
Growth of random surfaces |
| 12:30 - 2:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 2:30 - 3:30 |
Stas Smirnov (University of Geneva and and St. Petersburg
State University )
SLE and CFT |
For additional information contact thematic(PUT_AT_SIGN_HERE)fields.utoronto.ca
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