Schedule, Notes/Handouts & Videos

Introduction to Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics August 25, 2008 - August 29, 2008

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Aug 25, 2008
Monday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Nilmanifolds in ergodic theory, I
Bernard Host

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM

On the sumsets of infinite sequences
Endre Szemeredi

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Nilmanifolds in ergodic theory, II
Bernard Host

04:10 PM - 05:00 PM

Szemeredi's theorem and Hardy fields
Nikos Frantzikinakis

Aug 26, 2008
Tuesday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

An Introduction to Diophantine Dynamics
Vitaly Bergelson

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Nilmanifolds in ergodic theory, III
Bernard Host

02:00 PM - 02:50 PM

Arithmetic progressions in sets of fractional dimension
Izabella Laba (University of British Columbia)

04:10 PM - 05:00 PM

Random Fibonacci sequences
Thierry de la Rue

Aug 27, 2008
Wednesday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Progressions in primes, I
Ben Green (University of Oxford)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Ergodic Ramsey theory and amenable groups
Vitaly Bergelson

Aug 28, 2008
Thursday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Correspondence principle and finitary ergodic theory, I
Terence Tao (University of California, Los Angeles)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Progressions in primes, II
Ben Green (University of Oxford)

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Correspondence principle and finitary ergodic theory, II
Terence Tao (University of California, Los Angeles)

04:10 PM - 05:00 PM

Roth's theorem in additive combinatorics
Tom Sanders

Aug 29, 2008
Friday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Progressions in primes, III
Ben Green (University of Oxford)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Correspondence principle and finitary ergodic theory, III
Terence Tao (University of California, Los Angeles)

02:00 PM - 02:50 PM

An inverse theorem for the uniformity seminorms associated with the action of \F_p^\infty.
Tamar Ziegler (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

04:10 PM - 05:00 PM

Connections between Ramsey theory for trees and Markov processes
Benjamin Weiss