Schedule, Notes/Handouts & Videos

Discrete Rigidity Phenomena in Additive Combinatorics November 03, 2008 - November 07, 2008

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Nov 03, 2008
Monday

09:00 AM - 09:45 AM		Discrete Rigidity Phenomena Ben Green (University of Oxford)
Location SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM		Uniform spectral gap bounds Alexander Gamburd (University of California, Santa Cruz)
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11:15 AM - 12:00 PM		How does one recognize a nilsequence? Bernard Host
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02:15 PM - 03:00 PM		Sum-Product and Character Sums in finite fields Mei-Chu Chang (University of California, Riverside)
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Nov 04, 2008
Tuesday

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM		A strong Tits Alternative and Arithmetic Heights Emmanuel Breuillard (Université de Paris XI)
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11:15 AM - 12:00 PM		Growth in SL3 Harald Helfgott (Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen)
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01:45 PM - 02:30 PM		Randomness Extractors Avi Wigderson
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02:35 PM - 03:20 PM		Freiman-type theorems in nonabelian groups Tom Sanders
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03:45 PM - 04:30 PM		Multiple recurrence along the shifted primes Tamar Ziegler (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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Nov 05, 2008
Wednesday

09:00 AM - 09:45 AM		Rigidity of unipotent joinings in positive characteristic Manfred Einsiedler (ETH Zürich)
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10:15 AM - 11:00 AM		Inverse Theorems and Inapproximability Ryan O'Donnell (Carnegie Mellon University)
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11:15 AM - 12:00 PM		On stationary measures and random walks on tori. Elon Lindenstrauss (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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Nov 06, 2008
Thursday

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Eigenvalue multiplicity and growth of groups
James Lee

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

The horocycle flow and primes
Adrian Ubis

01:45 PM - 02:30 PM

Extension of Selberg's theorem and sieving in
Jean Bourgain (Institute for Advanced Study)

02:35 PM - 03:20 PM

Uniform distribution and Hecke Operators
Akshay Venkatesh (Institute for Advanced Study)

04:00 PM - 04:45 PM

Additive Combinatorics and Piecewise Bohr Subsets of N
Hillel Furstenberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Nov 07, 2008
Friday

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM		Decompositions into polynomial phase functions Julia Wolf
Location SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM		A Boosting proof of the weak regularity lemma Luca Trevisan
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01:45 PM - 02:30 PM		Graph norms and Sidorenko's conjecture Hamed Hatami
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02:35 PM - 03:20 PM		Distribution of Orbits on NIlmanifolds Terence Tao (University of California, Los Angeles)
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