School of Mathematics and Statistics

Programme for Academic Year 2018-19

A series of seminars for postgraduates, final year undergraduates and anyone else who is interested, to provide background in Analysis, with an emphasis on the research interests of the Group, takes place on Tuesday afternoons at 15:00 in Room 1A.

Martinmas Semester (Autumn 2018):

• Tuesday 25th September 2018
  Sascha Troscheit: Galton-Watson trees: Big, small, and sometimes continuous.


• Tuesday 2nd October 2018
  Fractal Geometry and Stochastics Conference


• Tuesday 9th October 2018
  Stuart Burrell: Dimension drop and inhomogeneous self-affine sets


• Tuesday 16th October 2018
  Yiftach Dayan: Diophantine approximations on random fractals.


• Monday 22nd October 2018
  Alexia Yavicoli: Patterns in fractal sets.


• Tuesday 23rd October 2018
  Pablo Shmerkin: Some new results and some open problems about the middle-thirds Cantor set.


• Tuesday 30th October 2018
  Keith Rogers: The polynomial Wolff axioms and applications.


• Tuesday 6th November 2018
  Lawrence Lee: L^q-spectra of self-affine measures: closed forms, counterexamples, and split binomial sums.


• Tuesday 13th November 2018
  Jonathan Hickman: High dimensional Kakeya maximal estimates via polynomial partitioning.


• Tuesday 20th November 2018
  Jim Belk: A geometric solution to the twisted rabbit problem


• Tuesday 27th November 2018
  Han Yu: Incompatibility of geometric and arithmetic sequences


• Tuesday 4th December 2018
  Collin Bleak: TBD

Previous Schedule

Candelmas Semester (Spring 2018):

• Tuesday 6th February 2018
  Jonathan Fraser: Limit sets of Kleinian groups and dimension.


• Tuesday 13th February 2018
  Han Yu: On Ka-problems and some variants.


• Tuesday 20th February 2018
  Collin Bleak: Prefix exchanges, the CoCF property, and topological conjugation.


• Tuesday 27th February 2018
  Douglas Howroyd: Distance Sets: Subtraction is essentially addition.


• Tuesday 6th March 2018
  Problem Session


• Tuesday 13th March 2018
  Lars Olsen: Average distances in graph-directed constructions.


• Tuesday 3rd April 2018
  Kenneth Falconer: Strong Marstrand theorems and properties of line sets.


• Tuesday 10th April 2018
  Nayab Khalid: A Presentation for Thompson's Group F.


• Tuesday 17th April 2018
  Mike Todd: Statistical stability: how to prove it?


• Tuesday 24th April 2018
  Stuart Burrell: Dimension and measure for inhomogeneous attractors


• Tuesday 1st May 2018
  Lawrence Lee: Closed form expressions for L^q spectra


• Wednesday 16th May 2018
  Antti Käenmäki: Dimension drop conjecture for self-conformal sets

Martinmas Semester (Autumn 2017):

• Tuesday 17th September 2017
  Hiroki Takahashi: Lyapunov optimization for non-generic one-dimensional expanding Markov maps.


• Tuesday 3rd October 2017
  Jonathan Fraser: (Almost) arithmetic progressions and dimension.


• Tuesday 10th October 2017
  Lawrence Lee: Diophantine approximation on manifolds and lower bounds for Hausdorff dimension.


• Tuesday 17th October 2017
  Han Yu: Fourier series and extra conditions of Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture.


• Tuesday 24th October 2017
  Douglas Howroyd: Some dimension results on iterated sumsets.


• Tuesday 31st October 2017
  Mike Todd: Phase transitions and limit laws.


• Tuesday 7th November 2017
  Andrew Mitchell and Tasos Stylianou: Fractal measures of typical compact metric spaces.


• Tuesday 14th November 2017
  Christian Berg: On moment problems - Historical origins, significance and recent developments.


• Tuesday 21st November 2017
  Lars Olsen: The Borel Hierarchy, multifractal decomposition sets and Pi_γ⁰-completeness.


• Tuesday 28th November 2017
  Shayo Olukoya:


• Tuesday 5th December 2017
  Collin Bleak: Rational boundary actions of hyperbolic groups.

Candelmas Semester (Spring 2017):

• Tuesday 31st January 2017
  Lars Olsen: Box dimensions of typical compact sets.


• Tuesday 7th February 2017
  Collin Bleak: On finite generation for groups of homeomorphisms of Cantor spaces.


• Tuesday 14th February 2017
  Mike Todd: Continuity of entropy


• Tuesday 21st February 2017
  Jonathan Fraser: Inhomogeneous attractors: structure and dimension.


• Tuesday 28th February 2017
  Sascha Troscheit: Hausdorff measure, gauge functions, and random sets.


• Tuesday 7th March 2017
  Han Yu: Assouad dimension and Homogeneity of graphs of functions.


• Tuesday 14th and 21st March 2017
  Spring Vacation


• Tuesday 28th March 2017
  Kenneth Falconer: Self-affine sets - old and new.


• Tuesday 4th April 2017
  Chandrasekhar Venkataraman: Free boundaries on cell boundaries: asymptotic limits of a model for receptor-ligand dynamics.


• Tuesday 11th April 2017
  Nayab Khalid: Dynamical Properties of Connected Rearrangement Groups.


• Tuesday 18th April 2017
  Douglas Howroyd: The upper regularity dimension of measures.


• Tuesday 25th April 2017
  Abel Farkas: Conditional measure on random sets such as Brownian path and convergence of random measures.

Martinmas Semester (Autumn 2016):

• Tuesday 20th September 2016
  Collin Bleak: On combinatorial conditions determining isomorphism class for finitely generated subgroups of Homeo_+(I): Advanced Ping-Pong dynamics.


• Tuesday 27th September 2016
  Douglas Howroyd: Assouad type dimensions of self-affine sponges.


• Tuesday 4th October 2016
  Kenneth Falconer: Stable, Multistable, and Self-stabilising processes.


• Tuesday 11th October 2016
  Mike Todd: Hitting, escaping and mixing.


• Tuesday 18th October 2016
  Independent Learning Week


• Tuesday 25th October 2016
  Surabhi Desai: Snaking in Systems with Non-Orientable Manifolds.


• Tuesday 1st November 2016
  Jonathan Fraser: The Assouad spectrum: scaling and homogeneity in metric spaces (part 1).


• Tuesday 8th November 2016
  Han Yu: The Assouad spectrum: scaling and homogeneity in metric spaces (part 2).


• Tuesday 15th November 2016
  Bea Adam-Day and Nic Pinzani: On the average box dimension of the graph of a typical continuous function.


• Tuesday 22nd November 2016
  Lars Olsen: The Borel hierarchy, multifractal decomposition sets and Pi_{gamma}^0-completeness.

Candlemas Semester (Spring 2016):

• Tuesday 2nd February 2016
  Casey Donoven: Multifractals and Heartbeats


• Tuesday 23rd February 2016
  Problem Session


• Tuesday 8th March 2016
  Bea Adam-Day: \(Pi_{0}^{1}\) completeness


• Tuesday 29th March 2016
  Casey Donoven: Invariant relations and edge replacement systems


• Tuesday 5th April 2016
  Kenneth Falconer: Some problems in plane geometry involving measures and combinatorics


• Tuesday 12th April 2016
  Sascha Troscheit: One Dimensional Geometry of Multiplicative Cascades


• Tuesday 12th April 2016
  Nayab Khalid: The Grigorchuk Group - An Introduction

Martinmas Semester (Autumn 2015):

• Tuesday 22nd September 2015
  No Seminar


• Tuesday 29th September 2015
  Problem Session


• Tuesday 6th October 2015
  Mike Todd: Continuity of measures


• Tuesday 13th October 2015
  Problem Session


• Tuesday 20th October 2015
  Lars Olsen: Asymptotic behaviour of moments and local dimensions of measures


• Tuesday 27th October 2015
  Kenneth Falconer: Some geometric properties of Liouville quantum gravity


• Tuesday 3rd November 2015
  Sascha Troscheit: Box-counting dimension of random self-affine carpets.


• Tuesday 10th November 2015
  Tom Kempton: Projections of self-affine sets.


• Tuesday 17th November 2015
  Casey Donoven: Invariant Quotients of the Cantor Space.


• Tuesday 24th November 2015
  Collin Bleak: On C* simplicity of group algebras, and normalish subgroups of R. Thompson's groups F and T.


• Tuesday 1st December 2015
  Mike Todd: Quantifying inhomogeneity in fractal sets


• Tuesday 8th December 2015
  Vuksan Mijovic: Dynamical Zeta Functions

Candlemas Semester (Spring 2015):

• Tuesday 3rd February 2015
  Lars Olsen: Average distances on fractals and average moments


• Tuesday 10th February 2015
  Collin Bleak: On the derivatives of a class of automorphisms


• Tuesday 17th February 2015
  Problem Session: Problem list to be given at a later date.


• Tuesday 24th February 2015
  Casey Donoven: Topological study of fractal structure


• Tuesday 3rd March 2015
  Sascha Troscheit: Random graph directed systems and box-like carpets


• Tuesday 10th March 2015
  Mike Todd: Recurrence in random dynamical systems


• Tuesday 17th and 24th March 2015
  No Seminars


• Tuesday 31th March 2015
  Tom Kempton


• Tuesday 7th April 2015
  Jasmina Angelevska: Weak separation property for self-conformal systems


• Tuesday 14nd April 2015
  Yongxin Gui


• Tuesday 21nd April 2015
  Vuksan Mijovic: Use of Martingale decomposition to prove statistical properties of dynamical system

Martinmas Semester (Autumn 2014):

• Tuesday 23rd September 2014
  Collin Bleak: On infinite descent in groups of PL homeomorphisms


• Tuesday 31st September 2014
  Problem Session


• Tuesday 7th October 2014
  Mike Todd: Dynamical systems with holes: slow mixing cases


• Tuesday 14th October 2014
  Sascha Troscheit: Assouad dimension of random fractals


• Tuesday 21st October 2014
  Tom Kempton: Towards the conjecture 'Box dimension exists for self-affine sets'


• Tuesday 28th October 2014
  Gavin Abernethy: Normal numbers


• Tuesday 4th November 2014
  Lars Olsen: Tubes, Zeta functions and Fractal/Multifractal geometry


• Tuesday 11th November 2014
  Kenneth Falconer: Self-similar Fractals: Sections, Projections and Percolation


• Tuesday 18th November 2014
  Casey Donoven: Fractal Intersections in Cantor Spaces


• Tuesday 25th November 2014
  Abel Farkas: Down with separation condition

Candlemas Semester (Spring 2014):

• Tuesday 11th February 2014
  Problem Session


• Tuesday 18th February 2014
  Mike Todd: Mixing in Dynamical Systems


• Tuesday 25th February 2014
  Vuksan Mijovic


• Tuesday 4th March 2014
  Casey Donoven: Intersections within Cantor Spaces


• Tuesday 11th March 2014
  Jonathan Fraser: The Assouad dimension of self-similar sets with overlaps


• Tuesday 18th and 25th March 2014
  No Seminars


• Tuesday 1st April 2014
  Kathryn E Hare: Energy and the Fourier Transform


• Tuesday 8th April 2014
  Kenneth Falconer: Symmetry and Enumeration of Self-similar Fractals


• Tuesday 15th April 2014
  Lars Olsen: Distribution of digits in integers


• Tuesday 22nd April 2014
  Collin Bleak: On Kesten-type conditions for computing the ideal structure in C* algebras

Martinmas Semester (Autumn 2013):

• Tuesday 24th September 2013
  Casey Donoven: Groups of homeomorphisms of Cantor sets


• Tuesday 1st October 2013
  No Seminar


• Tuesday 8th October 2013
  Jim Belk: Thompson-Like Groups Acting on Julia Sets


• Tuesday 15th October 2013
  Mike Todd: Teichm�ller flow on the space of translation surfaces: towards statistical properties


• Tuesday 22nd October 2013
  Kathryn E Hare: Local dimensions of convolutions of measures


• Tuesday 29th October 2013
  Kenneth Falconer: Some problems in combinatorial measure geometry


• Tuesday 5th November 2013
  Sascha Troscheit: Self-similar and self conformal devil's staircases and dimensions of sets of non-differentiability


• Tuesday 12th November 2013
  Jan-Olav Ronning: Square Roots of the Poisson Kernal- Past and Future


• Tuesday 19th November 2013
  Colin Bleak


• Tuesday 26th November 2013
  Malte Koch: Brownian motion on nested fractals

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