Conference Support: Dynamical Systems and Randomness

Northwestern University, Evanston IL

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Abstract

This award will support the participation of US-based mathematicians, especially women, graduate students, postdocs, and young faculty, in "A Conference in Ergodic Theory: Dynamical Systems and Randomness" that will be held at the Institut Henri Poincare' in Paris, France, from May 11-15, 2009. This conference, which is to be cosponsored by a consortium of seven French universities, has six major scientific themes: entropy and classification of dynamical systems; smooth models of dynamical systems; rigidity phenomena in ergodic theory; interactions of dynamics with combinatorics and number theory; recurrence and convergence theorems; nilpotent ergodic theory. The format of the conference is such that young people will have ample opportunities to speak. A key purpose of this event is to promote the formation of collaborations between the younger generation of American dynamicists and ergodic theorists and their French counterparts.