Rice Dynamics Workshop
Schedule
Friday, May 3
Department location and parking map
| 2:30pm | Registration | HBH (Herman Brown Building) Room 220 |
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| 3:00-3:50pm | Diophantine polygonal billiards are ergodic | Giovanni Forni | HBH 227 |
| 3:50-4:10pm | Coffee Break | HBH 438 | |
| 4:10-5:00pm | Unipotent flows and infinite measures | Amir Mohammadi | HBH 227 |
| 5:00-5:20pm | Coffee Break | HBH 438 | |
| 5:20-6:10pm | On random groups of intermediate growth | Rostislav Grigorchuk | HBH 227 |
| 6:10pm | Dinner on your own | Suggested Restaurants |
Saturday, May 4
| 8:15am | Shuttle from Holiday Inn to campus | Transportation to Rice University | |
| 8:30-9:30am | Continental Breakfast | HBH 438 | |
| 9:30-10:20am | Cocycle rigidity of parabolic actions in SL(n, R), n>3 | Zhenqi Wang | HBH 227 |
| 10:20-10:40am | Coffee Break | HBH 438 | |
| 10:40-11:30am | Renormalization and rigidity of circle maps | Sasa Kocic | HBH 227 |
| 11:30am-2:00pm | Break for Lunch | Rice Village | |
| 2:00-2:50pm | Totally nonfree actions of self-similar groups | Yaroslav Vorobets | HBH 227 |
| 2:50-3:10pm | Coffee Break | HBH 438 | |
| 3:10-4:00pm | Ergodic properties of m-free integers in number fields | Francesco Cellarosi | HBH 227 |
| 4:00-4:20pm | Coffee Break | HBH 438 | 4:20-5:10pm | Rigidity of Actions by Commuting Nilmanifold Automorphisms | Zhiren Wang | HBH 227 | 5:10-5:30pm | Coffee Break | HBH 438 |
| 5:30-6:20pm | Global Rigidity of Higher Rank Abelian Anosov Algebraic Actions | Federico Rodriguez-Hertz | HBH 227 |
| 6:45pm | Workshop Banquet | Seco's Latin Cuisine |
Sunday, May 5
| 8:15am | Shuttle from Holiday Inn to campus | Transportation to Rice University | |
| 8:30-9:30am | Continental Breakfast | HBH 438 | |
| 9:30-10:20am | The Fried entropy for smooth group actions and connections with algebraic number theory | Svetlana Katok | HBH 227 |
| 10:20-10:40am | Coffee Break | HBH 438 | |
| 10:40am-11:30pm | Rate Results for Rigidity Sequences | Kelly Yancey | HBH 227 |
| 11:30-11:50am | Coffee Break | HBH 438 | |
| 11:50am-12:40pm | Arithmeticity and topology of smooth actions of higher rank abelian groups | Anatole Katok | HBH 227 |
| 12:40-2:00pm | CHAOS & Life outreach Program Participant Lunch | Outreach Program (Closed Session) | HBH427 |
| 2:00-5:30pm | Group Presentations | Outreach Program Presentation (Closed Session) | HBH 427 |
| 5:30pm | Certificate Awards to CHAOS & Life outreach participants | HBH 427 |