Action Now

School of Mathematical Sciences’s seminar


25.12.24 | HIT Campus 


Background |
Action Now is a wandering seminar devoted to the study of group actions, their dynamics and geometry.

Time |
Wednesday, December 25, 2024, between 09:30–16:30

Place |
Holon Institute of Technology, Rothschild Building (8), 4th floor, Auditorium 400

Speakers |
Uri Bader (Weizmann & University of Maryland)
Yair Minsky (Yale)
Peter Sarnak (Princeton & IAS)
Shira Tanny (Weizmann)
Barak Weiss (Tel Aviv University)

Organizers |
Anatoly Golberg
Eugene Kanzieper
Guy Salomon

Schedule |

09:30 – 09:50 |  Welcome
09:50 – 10:00 |  Openning Remarks
10:00 – 10:50 |  Peter Sarnak (Princeton & IAS) – Commutators in SL(2,O) and Markoff’s equation
10:50 – 11:20 |  Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:10 |  Uri Bader (Weizmann & University of Maryland) – Uniform waist inequalities
12:20 – 13:10 |  Shira Tanny (Weizmann) – Creating periodic points via perturbations in Hamiltonian dynamics
13:10 – 14:30 |  Lunch
14:30 – 15:20 |  Barak Weiss (Tel Aviv University) – The horocycle flow in moduli space
15:30 – 16:20 |  Yair Minsky (Yale) – Horospherical dynamics and stretch maps
16:20 – 16:30 |  Candles & Doughnuts

Registration