Symposium in Honor of Vadim Kaimanovich

November 28, 2009
9:00 - 17:00

Haus der Wissenschaft
Sandstraße 4/5
28195 Bremen

Program

  9:00-9:30 Anatoly Vershik (Saint Petersburg State University)
    Representations + random walks = integrable systems. An example.
 
  9:40-10:25 Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda (Université de Genève)
    Schreier graphs of self-similar groups
 
  Coffee break
 
  10:45-11:30     Wolfgang Woess (Technische Universität Graz)
    Brownian motion and harmonic functions on treebolic space
 
  Lunch break
 
  13:30-14:15 Ursula Hamenstädt (Universität Bonn)
    Invariant measures for the Weil-Petersson flow
 
  14:25-15:10 Alexander Bufetov (Steklov Institute of Mathematics and Rice University)
    Limit theorems for translation flows
 
  Coffee break
 
  15:30-16:15 Mark Pollicott (University of Warwick)
    Random matrix products and absolute continuity of the stationary measure

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