Schedule of student talks (all talks in Math 126):
• Friday, March 27, 5:30PM, Felipe: Mixing, Mixing of Higher Orders and the Ledrappier
3-dot example
• Monday, March 30, 5:30PM, Subhajit: Hyperbolic maps; concepts and examples
• Wednesday, April 1, 5:30PM Qiang: Hyperbolic maps; concepts and examples
• Tuesday, April 7, 5:30PM, Saifuddin: Variational Principle for pressure
• Wednesday, April 8, 5:30PM, Nishant: Equilibrium states -vs- Gibbs states
• Friday, April 10, 5:30PM, Thomas: Shannon-McMillan-Breiman Theorem
• Tuesday, April 14, 2:00PM, Ben : Stochastic monotonicity with application to existence
of µ+
β for the Ising model
• Wednesday, April 15, 2:00PM, Spencer: Phase transitions for the Ising model
• Thursday, April 16, 1:00PM, Brian: Overview of Bowen, Chapter 4 (Ergodic theory of
Axiom A diffeomorphisms) + some remarks on equilibrium states and pressure
• Friday, April 17, 2:00PM, Raimundo: Egrodicity of µ+
β for the Ising model
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