10:15-11:15 REGISTRATION

11:15 Opening Remarks

11:30-12:30 Benjamin WEISS, Hebrew University
                        Jack Feldman's contributions to ergodic theory

LUNCH

2:00-2:50 Jean-Paul THOUVENOT, University of Paris VI
                         Scaffoldings

3:00-3:50 Richard KADISON, University of Pennsylvania
                          Pythagoras: a new look at a very old theorem

COFFEE BREAK

4:30-5:20 Meir SMORODINSKY, Tel Aviv University
                          Positive results in the theory of reverse filtrations

6:00-9:00 BANQUET
              Garden Restaurant of Penn Stater Hotel.  Please sign up at the registration.
 
 

9:20-10:10  Roy ADLER, IBM, Yorktown Heigths
                            Scoliosis and modeling the spine

10:20-11:10  James PROPP, University of Wisconsin
                             The domino tiling Z^2 action--what we know and what we guess

COFFEE BREAK

11:40am-12:30 Abram KAGAN, University of Maryland
                               Symmetrization of probability measures

LUNCH

2:00-2:50 Daniel RUDOLPH, University of Maryland
                        Kakutani equivalence for measure preserving endomorphisms and flows

3:00-3:50 Klaus SCHMIDT, University of Vienna
                        Invariant subrelations

COFFEE BREAK

4:30-5:20 Anatoli VERSHIK, St. Petersburg University
                        Entropy and random walks on the groups

7:30 CULTURAL EVENT      Performance of "Midsummer night dream and other tales"
                Ballet Theater of Central Pennsylvania         Ticket information is available at the registration.
 
 

9:20-10:10 Donald ORNSTEIN, Stanford University
                        Jack Feldman and isomorphism theory

10:20-11:10 Yitzhak KATZNELSON, Stanford University
                        Some remarks on (sequences of) recurrence

COFFEE BREAK

11:40pm-12:30 Hillel FURSTENBERG, Hebrew University
                        The dynamics and combinatorics of trees
 
 
 
 
 
 

If the weather is favorable there will be a hike in a picturesque area near State College Sunday afternoon (approximately from 2pm till 4:30pm)