UK-Japan Winter School

Dynamics and Arithmetics

Nowton Court, Bury St Edmunds, 8-12 January 2006



PROGRAMME

Time SUNDAY, 8 JANUARY
16:00 - Registration


Time MONDAY, 9 JANUARY
07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 Registration/Opening
10:00 - 11:00 Klaus Schmidt (Vienna): The dynamics and arithmetic of toral automorphisms (I)
11:00 - 11:45 Coffee
11:45 - 12:45 Stefano Marmi (Pisa): Small denominator problems and continued fractions
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:05 Makoto Mori (Tokyo): Large deviation of dynamical systems
15:05 - 15:30 Tea
15:30 - SHORT TALKS
Eveyth Deligero (Tokyo): The invariance principle for a non-Archimedean Diophantine approximation
Thomas Jordan (Coventry): Multifractal analysis and rates of convergence
Laura Luzzi (Pisa): On the entropy of Japanese continued fractions
Masato Takei (Tokyo): On the supercritical behavior in first-passage percolation


Time TUESDAY, 10 JANUARY
07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 Klaus Schmidt (Vienna): The dynamics and arithmetic of toral automorphisms (II)
10:00 - 10:45 Coffee
10:45 - 11:15 Richard Miles (Norwich): Dynamical zeta functions for elements of entropy rank one actions
11:15 - 11:45 Yohei Tachiya (Tokyo): Arithmetical properties of certain infinite series
12:00 - 13:00 Brigitte Vallee (Caen): Euclidean algorithms are Gaussian
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:20 Rie Natsui (Tokyo): On the arithmetic distributions of convergents arising from Jacobi-Perron algorithm
15:35 - 16:25 Cor Kraaikamp (Delft): On α-Rosen fractions
16:25 - 17:00 Tea
17:00 - 17:50 Dieter Mayer (Clausthal): The transfer operator for Rosen's λ-expansion and the period functions for Hecke triangle groups


Time WEDNESDAY, 11 JANUARY
07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 Klaus Schmidt (Vienna): The dynamics and arithmetic of toral automorphisms (III)
10:00 - 10:45 Coffee
10:45 - 11:45 Mark Pollicott (Coventry): L-functions and equidistribution (I)
12:00 - 13:00 Gabriel Paternain (Cambridge): The cohomological equation of magnetic flows
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 17:00 Informal discussions
from 18:00 Buffet party


Time THURSDAY, 12 JANUARY
07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 Klaus Schmidt (Vienna): The dynamics and arithmetic of toral automorphisms (IV)
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee
10:20 - 11:20 Mark Pollicott (Coventry): L-functions and equidistribution (II)
11:30 - 12:30 Thomas Ward (Norwich): Orbit-counting in non-hyperbolic arithmetic dynamical systems
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Veronique Maume-Deschamps (Dijon): Dynamical analysis of gcd algorithms based on least significant bits
14:50 - 15:20 Tea
15:20 - 16:20 Jon Aaronson (Tel Aviv): Some remarks on dissipative, ergodic, measure preserving transformations




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