General
Semester
Spring 2008 (Monday, January 21 to Friday, March 14; Monday, April 28 to Friday, May 16)
Timetable- Wed 12:05 - 12:55
Students
|
Muhammad Anwar
(York) |
Andrew Barwell
(Birmingham) |
Alistair Bird
(Lancaster) |
Femke Douma
(Durham) |
|
Charles Eaton
(Manchester) |
Ben Fairbairn
(Birmingham) |
STEPHEN HARRAP
(York) |
Andrew Hayden
(Durham) |
|
James Hook
(Manchester) |
Mumtaz Hussain
(York) |
Mark Kambites
(Manchester) |
Tri N. Ta
(Lancaster) |
|
Silvia Pina-Romero
(Manchester) |
Adam Skalski
(Lancaster) |
Rob Sturman
(Leeds) |
Francesca Ticconi
(Sheffield) |
Prerequisites
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Syllabus
- Lecture 1: Examples of dynamical systems (maps on a circle, the doubling map, shifts of finite type, toral automorphisms, the geodesic flow)
- Lecture 2: Uniform distribution, inc. applications to number theory
- Lecture 3: Invariant measures and measure-preserving transformations. Ergodicity.
- Lecture 4: Recurrence and ergodic theorems (Poincaré recurrence, Kac's lemma, von Neumann's ergodic theorem, Birkhoff's ergodic theorem)
- Lecture 5: Applications of the ergodic theorem (normality of numbers, the Hopf argument, etc)
- Lecture 6: Mixing. Spectral properties.
- Lecture 7: Entropy and the isomorphism problem.
- Lecture 8: Topological pressure and the variational principle.
- Lecture 9: Thermodynamic formalism and transfer operators.
- Lecture 10: Applications of thermodynamic formalism: (i) Bowen's formula for Hausdorff dimension, (ii) central limit theorems.
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