Nov 03, 2008
Monday
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09:00 AM - 09:45 AM
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Discrete Rigidity Phenomena
Ben Green (University of Oxford)
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
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Uniform spectral gap bounds
Alexander Gamburd (University of California, Santa Cruz)
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
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How does one recognize a nilsequence?
Bernard Host
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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02:15 PM - 03:00 PM
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Sum-Product and Character Sums in finite fields
Mei-Chu Chang (University of California, Riverside)
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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Nov 04, 2008
Tuesday
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10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
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A strong Tits Alternative and Arithmetic Heights
Emmanuel Breuillard (Université de Paris XI)
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
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Growth in SL3
Harald Helfgott (Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen)
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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01:45 PM - 02:30 PM
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Randomness Extractors
Avi Wigderson
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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02:35 PM - 03:20 PM
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Freiman-type theorems in nonabelian groups
Tom Sanders
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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03:45 PM - 04:30 PM
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Multiple recurrence along the shifted primes
Tamar Ziegler (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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Nov 05, 2008
Wednesday
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09:00 AM - 09:45 AM
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Rigidity of unipotent joinings in positive characteristic
Manfred Einsiedler (ETH Zürich)
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
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Inverse Theorems and Inapproximability
Ryan O'Donnell (Carnegie Mellon University)
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
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On stationary measures and random walks on tori.
Elon Lindenstrauss (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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Nov 06, 2008
Thursday
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10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
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Eigenvalue multiplicity and growth of groups
James Lee
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
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The horocycle flow and primes
Adrian Ubis
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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01:45 PM - 02:30 PM
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Extension of Selberg's theorem and sieving in
Jean Bourgain (Institute for Advanced Study)
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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02:35 PM - 03:20 PM
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Uniform distribution and Hecke Operators
Akshay Venkatesh (Institute for Advanced Study)
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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04:00 PM - 04:45 PM
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Additive Combinatorics and Piecewise Bohr Subsets of N
Hillel Furstenberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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Nov 07, 2008
Friday
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10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
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Decompositions into polynomial phase functions
Julia Wolf
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
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A Boosting proof of the weak regularity lemma
Luca Trevisan
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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01:45 PM - 02:30 PM
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Graph norms and Sidorenko's conjecture
Hamed Hatami
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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02:35 PM - 03:20 PM
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Distribution of Orbits on NIlmanifolds
Terence Tao (University of California, Los Angeles)
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- MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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