New York Journal of Mathematics Conference:
Session on Ergodic Theory and Probability

Session and plenary talks are in LC1.

• 5:00-7:00pm Reception in the Math Lounge (Earth Science 152B)
  Greetings and organization of carpooling to dinner

Monday:

• 9:15-10:15 Roger L. Jones, DePaul University
  "When does a sequence of operators diverge"
• 10:30 - 11:30 Plenary Lecture:(Analysis) Ralph Showalter (University of Texas)
  Partial Differential Equations with Hysteresis
• LUNCH
• 1:00-2:00 Plenary Lecture: Andres del Junco (University of Toronto)
  " Some applications of joinings in ergodic theory"
• 2:10-2-40 Jane Hawkins, University of North Carolina
  "Bernoulli and exactness properties of Lebesgue measure for rational maps of the sphere"
• 2:45-3:15 Rob Bradley, Adelphi University
  "On the Distribution of Returns in Random Walks"
• 3:15-3:30 coffee break
• 3:30-4:00 Aimee Johnson, Swarthmore College
  "Decomposing Textile Systems"
• 4:05-4:35 Reem Yassawi, McGill University
  "Rank One Group Actions and Multiple Mixing"
• 4:40-5:10 Alexander Soshnikov, Princeton University
  "Global distribution of spacings in random matrices: Gaussian fluctuation"
• 5:15-7:15 RECEPTION at the Math Lounge, Math. Dept. ES 152B

Tuesday:

• 9:15-10:15 Burgess Davis, Purdue University
  "Distribution of Brownian local time on curves"
• 10:30-11:30 Plenary Lecture: Andre Zelevinski (Northeastern University)
  "Polyhedra combinatorics in representation theory"
• LUNCH
• 1:00 - 2:00 Plenary Lecture:(Analysis) Walter Craig (Brown University)
• 2:10-2:40 Natalya Chekhova, IML, Marseille
  "Covering numbers for rotations and interval exchanges"
• 2:45-3:15 Sebastian Ferrando, Ryerson Polytechnic University
  "Upcrossings and Oscillations for Ergodic Theorems"
• 3:15-3:30 coffee break
• 3:30-4:00 Toshihiro Hamachi, Kyushu Univ
  "Homomorphisms of noncommutative Bernoulli schemes"
• 4:05-4:35 Ayse Sahin, North Dakota State University
  "The Krieger Representation Theorem for Z^d Shifts of Finite Type"
• 4:40-5:10 Karma Dajani (Utrecht University)
  "Random entropy of random group actions and recurrence of cocycles"

Wednesday:

• 8:00-8:30 Radhakrishnan Nair, University of Liverpool
  "Square functions for subsequence ergodic averages"
• 8:35-9:05 Mahbubur Rahman, Concordia University
  "Speed of convergence in the Central Limit Theorem"
• 9:15-10:15 Andres del Junco, University of Toronto
  "Higher order independence, higher order mixing and the semigroup of joinings"
• 10:30-11:30 Plenary Lecture: Burgess Davis (Purdue University)
  " Random walk and Brownian motion perturbed at extrema"
• LUNCH
• 1:00- 2:00 Plenary Lecture: Walter Strauss
• 2:10-2:40 Kyewon Park, Ajou University
  "Directional entropy for Z^2 -actions on a Lebesgue space"
• 2:45-3:15 Sebastien Ferenczi, IML, Marseille
  "Complexity of dynamical systems"
• 3:15 PICNIC

Thursday:

• 9:15-10:15 Andres del Junco, University of Toronto
  "Gaussian systems"
• 10:30-11:30 Plenary Lecture: Bertram Kostant (M.I.T.)
  "Toda latice and quantum cohomology of the flag manifold"
• LUNCH
• 1:00-2:00 Plenary Lecture: Roger L. Jones (DePaul University)
  "Oscillation inequalities in ergodic theory"
• 2:10-2:40 Tom Ward, University of East Anglia
  "Dynamical systems attached to S-integers: typical behavior"
• 2:45-3:15 Martin Hildebrand, University at Albany, SUNY
  "Preliminary results on a directional version of the Metropolis algorithm"
• 3:15-3:30 coffee break
• 3:30-4:00 Gary Morris, University East Anglia
  "Expansive group actions on the circle"
• 4:05-4:35 Isaac Kornfeld, North Dakota State University
  "Some questions on measurable cocycles for measure preserving and nonsingular actions"
• 4:40-5:10 Stanley Eigen, Northeastern University
• 6:00 BANQUET

Friday:

• 9:15-10:15 Roger Jones, DePaul University
  "Convergence of convolution powers"
• 10:30-11:00 Jal Choksi, McGill University
• 11:05-11:35 Nat Friedman, University at Albany, SUNY
  "Mixing sequences and rigid sequences"
• LUNCH
• 1:00-2:00 Plenary Lecture: Roger Howe (Yale University)
  "K-type structure of principal series representations,some examples"
• 2:10-2:40 Idris Assani, University of North Carolina
• 2:45-3:15 Jim Olsen, North Dakota State University
  "Generalizations of Bourgain's Return Times Theorem"
• 3:15-3:30 coffee break
• 3:35-4:05 Raj Prasad, University of Lowell

All the lecture halls have a blackboard and an overhead projector. There will be additional open classrooms which can be used to discuss mathematics. These classrooms will also be open during Saturday.