Schedule of Events

Saturday March 4, 2023

Exley Science Center 121

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

9-9:50 am Kathryn Lindsey, Boston College: Rational maps built by mixing two polynomials

10-10:50 am Chenxi Wu, University of Wisconsin: Zeroes of zeta functions and polynomial core entropies

11:11:50 am Sean Li, UConn: Quantitative rectifiability in the Heisenberg group

LUNCH

1:45-2:35 pm Lam Pham, Brandeis: Short closed geodesics in higher rank arithmetic orbifolds

COFFEE BREAK

3:05-3:55 pm Noelle Sawyer, Southwestern: Unique equilibrium states for geodesic folds on translation surfaces 

4:05-4:55 pm Grace Work, University of Wisconsin: Properties of equilibrium states for geodesic flow on translation surfaces

6:00 DINNER Esca Restaurant and Wine Bar, 437 Main Street, Middletown, CT

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Exley Science Center 121

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

9-9:50 am Diana Davis, Exeter: Periodic billiard paths on regular polygons

10-10:50 am Alena Erchenko, Dartmouth: Flexibility and rigidity for Cantor repellers

11-11:50 am Patrick Hooper, CCNY: Stellar foliation structures on surfaces

LUNCH

1:30-2:20 pm Dubi Kelmer, Boston College: Intrinsic diophantine approximations on the sphere with and without dynamics

2:30-3:20 pm Dmitry Kleinbock, Brandeis: Dimension drop conjecture in homogeneous dynamics