Northeastern Illinois University

APPLICATIONS OF MEASURABLE AND SMOOTH DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS TO NUMBER THEORY

October 4, 2007
DePaul Center, Room 8005
1 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604
 

This workshop will feature the following three 75 minute expository lectures:

1:00 pm  Anatole Katok (Penn State)
                Measure rigidity and Diophantine approximation

        2:30 pm  Akshay Venkatesh (NYU)
                        Arithmetic aspects of the geodesic flow on the modular surface

        4:00 pm  Manfred Einsiedler (Ohio State)
                        The distribution of ideal classes in SL(3,Z)\SL(3,R)

Useful information: 

• Click here for the abstracts of the talks.

• The DePaul Center is in the Loop campus of DePaul University.  Click here for a map of the Loop campus and here for directions to the Loop campus.

Workshop organizers:
       Marian Gidea, Department of Mathematics, Northeastern Illinois University (mgidea@neiu.edu)
       Ayşe Şahin, Department of Mathematical Sciences, DePaul University (asahin@condor.depaul.edu)
       Ilie Ugarcovici, Department of Mathematical Sciences, DePaul University (iugarcov@depaul.edu)

This event is sponsored by the DePaul University Research Council and the Provost Office of Northeastern Illinois University.