Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Thursday, January 15, 2009 00:44:11

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington, DC, January 5-8, 2009 (Monday - Thursday)
Meeting #1046

• Monday January 5, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Group Actions on Homogeneous Spaces and Applications, I
  Virginia Suite A, Lobby Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Dmitry Y. Kleinbock, Brandeis University kleinboc@brandeis.edu
  Gregory A. Margulis, Yale University
  Hee Oh, Brown University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The generic points for the horocycle flow on ${\mathbb Z}^d$ covers.
    Omri Sarig*, The Pennsylvania State University
    B Schapira, Universite Picardie Jules Verne
    (1046-37-245)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Volume entropy and measure of maximal entropy of hyperbolic buildings.
    Francois Ledrappier, University of Notre Dame
    Seonhee Lim*, Cornell University
    (1046-37-1544)
• Monday January 5, 2009, 2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Group Actions on Homogeneous Spaces and Applications, II
  Virginia Suite A, Lobby Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Dmitry Y. Kleinbock, Brandeis University kleinboc@brandeis.edu
  Gregory A. Margulis, Yale University
  Hee Oh, Brown University
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Weakly commensurable arithmetic groups, with applications to locally symmetric spaces.
    Andrei Rapinchuk*, University of Virginia
    (1046-22-148)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Locally symmetric subspaces of locally symmetric spaces.
    Vladimir Chernousov, University of Alberta, Canada
    Lucy Lifschitz, University of Oklahoma
    Dave Witte Morris*, University of Lethbridge, Canada
    (1046-22-1366)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    On Compact Clifford-Klein Forms of $SL_{n-2}(\mathbb{R})\backslash SL_n(\mathbb{R})$.
    David Constantine*, University of Michigan
    (1046-37-704)
• Tuesday January 6, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Group Actions on Homogeneous Spaces and Applications, III
  Virginia Suite A, Lobby Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Dmitry Y. Kleinbock, Brandeis University kleinboc@brandeis.edu
  Gregory A. Margulis, Yale University
  Hee Oh, Brown University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Orbital Counting for Thin Groups and the Affine Linear Sieve.
    Alex V Kontorovich*, Brown University
    Hee Oh, Brown University
    (1046-11-252)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Invariant subsets and stationary probabilities on homogeneous spaces.
    Yves Benoist*, Universite Paris-Sud
    Jean-Francois Quint, Universite Paris-Nord
    (1046-37-770)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Higher rank Anosov actions on tori.
    David M Fisher, Indiana University
    Boris V Kalinin, University of South Alabama
    Ralf J Spatzier*, University of Michigan
    (1046-37-792)
• Tuesday January 6, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Group Actions on Homogeneous Spaces and Applications, IV
  Virginia Suite A, Lobby Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Dmitry Y. Kleinbock, Brandeis University kleinboc@brandeis.edu
  Gregory A. Margulis, Yale University
  Hee Oh, Brown University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Expanding translates of curves and Dirichlet-Minkowski theorem on linear forms.
    Nimish A Shah*, Yale University and Tata Institute
    (1046-11-1526)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Metric Diophantine approximation for systems of linear forms via homogeneous dynamics.
    Dmitry Kleinbock*, Brandeis University
    Gregory Margulis, Yale University
    Junbo Wang, Brandeis University
    (1046-11-1867)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Logarithm laws for horocycles and diophantine approximation.
    Jayadev Siddhanta Athreya*, Yale University
    Grigory Margulis, Yale University
    (1046-37-254)