AMS :: 2024 Fall Western Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, November 3, 2024 03:30:04

Saturday October 26, 2024, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Random walks on groups and dynamics of group actions, I
Room 2361, Robert Gordon Sproul Hall
Organizers:
Omer Tamuz, California Institute of Technology omertamuz@gmail.com
Gil Goffer, University of California at San Diego goffergil@gmail.com
Tianyi Zheng, University of California San Diego
- 8:00 a.m.
  Free discussion
- 9:00 a.m.
  Conformal dimension and groups
  Volodymyr Nekrashevych*, Texas A&M University
  (1201-20-41011)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Poisson Boundary of Lamplighter Groups
  Joshua Frisch*, University of California San Diego
  (1201-20-41514)

Saturday October 26, 2024, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Random Walks on Groups and Dynamics of Group Actions, II
Room 2361, Robert Gordon Sproul Hall
Organizers:
Omer Tamuz, California Institute of Technology omertamuz@gmail.com
Gil Goffer, University of California at San Diego goffergil@gmail.com
Tianyi Zheng, University of California San Diego
- 3:00 p.m.
  Counting cutsets
  Philip Easo*, California Institute of Technology
  (1201-60-41079)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Asymptotic power laws
  Gil Goffer*, University of California at San Diego
  (1201-20-41371)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Minghao Pan, Asymptotic Rényi entropies of random walks on groups

Sunday October 27, 2024, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Random Walks on Groups and Dynamics of Group Actions, III
Room 2361, Robert Gordon Sproul Hall
Organizers:
Omer Tamuz, California Institute of Technology omertamuz@gmail.com
Gil Goffer, University of California at San Diego goffergil@gmail.com
Tianyi Zheng, University of California San Diego
- 8:00 a.m.
  Studying random walks on Fuchsian groups via complex analysis
  Petr Kosenko*, University of British Columbia
  (1201-60-40574)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Small-ball estimates for random walks on groups
  Tom Hutchcroft*, Caltech
  (1201-60-40624)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Amanda Wilkens, Poisson--Voronoi tessellations and fixed price in higher rank

Sunday October 27, 2024, 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Random Walks on Groups and Dynamics of Group Actions, IV
Room 2361, Robert Gordon Sproul Hall
Organizers:
Omer Tamuz, California Institute of Technology omertamuz@gmail.com
Gil Goffer, University of California at San Diego goffergil@gmail.com
Tianyi Zheng, University of California San Diego
- 2:00 p.m.
  Harmonic measures and convex algebra
  Behrang Forghani*, College of Charleston
  (1201-60-40538)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Itamar Vigdorovich, Stationary dynamics on character spaces and applications to arithmetic groups
- 4:00 p.m.
  Chris Gartland, Metric inequalities for Markov chains in nilpotent groups