Working Seminar: Dynamics and its Working Tools  



Spring 2005  


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Wednesday Sept 7 A. Katok Principle classes of algebraic dynamical systems
Wednesday Jan 12 (2nd hour) D. Mieczcowski Unitary representations of SL(2,R) I
Wednesday Jan 19 D. Mieczcowski
Unitary representations of SL(2,R) II.
Wednesday Jan 26 D. Kazhdan
Unitary representations of simple Lie groups I
Wednesday Feb 2 D. Kazhdan
Unitary representations of simple Lie groups II
Friday Feb 4 D. Kazhdan
Unitary representations of simple Lie groups III
Wednesday Feb 16 D. Kazhdan
Unitary representations of simple Lie groups IV
Wednesday Feb 23 G. Forni
Irreducible unitary representations of SL(2,R) and invariant distributions for the unipotent subgroup.
Wednesday March 2 D. Mieczkowski
Irreducible unitary representations and invariant distributions for the homogeneous actions of unipotent subgroups of SL(2,R) and (possibly) SL(2, C)
Wednesday March 23 N. Zinovyev
Geodesics and curvature in Riemannian geometry: An introduction I.
Wednesday March 30 N. Zinovyev

B. Weaver
Geodesics and curvature in Riemannian geometry: An introduction II.

Geometry at infinity for manifolds of non-positive curvature (after Knieper) I.
Wednesday April 6 B. Weaver
Geometry at infinity for manifolds of non-positive curvature (after Knieper) II.
Wednesday April 13 B. Weaver
Geometry at infinity for manifolds of non-positive curvature (after Knieper) III.
Wednesday April 27 A, Katok
Survey of topics for the seminar next term

Further talks TBA.