Department of Mathematics

Infinite Ergodic Theory
Seminar
2009-2010

Meets Mondays 1:30-2:30 in 544 Nightingale Hall

The Seminar features talks in Infinite Ergodic Theory and anything that catches the interest of the organizers.

The organizers are Raj Prasad, Arshag Hajian and Stanley Eigen.



September 28, 2009

  • Speaker: Arshag Hajian, Professor, Northeastern University
  • Title: Invariant Measures I
October 5, 2009

  • Speaker: Arshag Hajian, Professor, Northeastern University
  • Title: Invariant Measures Part I
October 12, 2009

  • Speaker: Arshag Hajian, Professor, Northeastern University
  • Title: Invariant Measures Part II
October 19, 2009

  • Speaker: Samantha J. von Zirpolo, Undergraduate, Northeastern University
  • Title: Van der Waerden's Theorem on Arithemetic Progressions, Part I
October 26, 2009 - NOTE time change. Talk will be at 12:00

  • Speaker: Samantha J. von Zirpolo, Undergraduate, Northeastern University
  • Title: Van der Waerden's Theorem on Arithemetic Progressions, Part II
Nov 2, 2009 - NOTE time change. Talk will be at 12:00

  • Speaker: Raj Prasad, Professor, UMASS, Lowell
  • Title: The Two-sided Hopf Transformation and Random Walks on the Integers, Part I
Nov 9, 2009

  • Speaker: Raj Prasad, Professor, UMASS, Lowell
  • Title: The Two-sided Hopf Transformation and Random Walks on the Integers, Part II
Nov 16, 2009

  • Speaker: Stanley Eigen, Professor, Northeastern University
  • Title: The Two Dimensional von Neumann Transformation and a Problem on Non-ergodic Speedups
TBA

  • Speaker: Sandy Blank, Professor, Northeastern University
  • Title: Thom's last theorem