All talks wil be held in Phillips room 215
 
 

                                                                FRIDAY February 14
 

3::00pm-5:00pm  - Registration-  Working sessions- Refreshments- Phillips Hall - room 224.

5:00pm- 6:00pm-Arkady Tempelman- Pennsylvania State University.

             Pointwise ergodic theorems for semigroup representations.
 

                                                                 SATURDAY February 15
 

9:30am- 10:00am  Registration-

10:00am- 10:50 am-Roger Jones-DePaul University.

                A new look at strong sweeping out for lacunary sequences.

11:00am- Noon-Bryna Kra- Pennsylvania State University.

              Non-conventional ergodic averages and nilpotent groups.

  BREAK

2:00pm-2:50pm-Yuri Latushkin-University of Missouri.

               A sharp formula for the essential spectral radius of the Ruelle transfer
               operator on smooth and Holder spaces.
 

3:00pm-3:40pm-Lina Avramidou-University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

             Factors forcing boundedness of the maximal moving averages
               operator and its differentiation analogue.
 

4:00pm-4:40pm-Ciprian Demeter-University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

            Besicovitch weights and the necessity of the duality restriction
              for a.e. convergence of weighted ergodic averages.
 
 

                                                            SUNDAY February 16
 
 

9:30am-10:30am - Hillel Furstenberg-The Einstein Institute of Mathematics-

                                           -Keynote Speaker-

           A multiple recurrence theorem for Markov processes, and some combinatorial
             applications.
 

11:00am-11:50 am - Igor Mezic-University of California at Santa Barbara.

           Ergodic theory methods for controllability.
 

BREAK
 

1:40pm-2:30pm - Guy Cohen-Ben-Gurion University-

             Consistency of Least Square Estimators of Linear Regression Coefficients.

2:40pm- 3: 30pm - Andrew Nobel- UNC-Chapel Hill.

           Discerning Families of Ergodic Processes.