Workshop on p-adic Dynamics
Wesleyan University
Saturday, May 14 - Monday, May 16, 2005
Wesleyan University hosted a Workshop on p-adic
Dynamics from Saturday, May 14 to Monday, May 16 of 2005,
in Room SC 121 of the Exley Science Center
on the Wesleyan campus.
The organizers were Rob Benedetto (Amherst College), Mike Keane
(Wesleyan University), and Cesar Silva (Williams College).
Funding was provided by workshop grants from the Mellon Foundation
and from the NSF.
Topics included:
- Ergodic theory on locally compact groups
- Dynamics of rational functions over Cp and
other non-archimedean fields
- Dynamics on the Berkovich projective line
- Dynamical systems arising from formal groups
Click on the title of the talk to see the abstract.
Click here to see all abstracts.
Saturday, May 14
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9:00-10:00 AM:
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Douglas Lind (University of Washington):
``Adelic Dynamics''
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10:00-10:30 AM:
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Break
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10:30-11:30 AM:
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Manfred Einsiedler (Princeton University):
``Measure
rigidity and divisibility properties
of Hamiltonian quaternions''
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11:30 AM-2:00 PM:
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Lunch
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2:00-3:00 PM:
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Thomas Ward (University of East Anglia):
``Orbit growth
for a p-adic extension: an exact result''
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3:00-3:30 PM:
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Break
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3:30-4:30 PM:
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Rafe Jones (Brown University):
``The Density
of the p-adic Hyperbolic Mandelbrot Set''
Sunday, May 15
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9:00-10:00 AM:
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Robert Rumely (University of Georgia):
``Ih's integrality conjecture
for preperiodic points''
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10:00-10:30 AM:
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Break
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10:30-11:30 AM:
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Matthew Baker (Georgia Institute of Technology):
``Rational dynamics
on the Berkovich projective line''
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11:30 AM-2:00 PM:
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Lunch
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2:00-3:00 PM:
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Jan Kiwi (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile):
``Puiseux series dynamics:
iteration of cubic polynomials''
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3:00-3:30 PM:
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Break
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3:30-4:30 PM:
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Gabriela Fernández Lamilla
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile):
``Wandering
Fatou Components in p-adic Polynomial Dynamics''
Monday, May 16
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9:00-10:00 AM:
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Ghassan Sarkis (Pomona College):
``Marking Formal Groups
in Characteristic p''
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10:00-10:30 AM:
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Break
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10:30-11:30 AM:
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Franco Vivaldi (Queen Mary, University of London):
``Maps over finite
fields: integrability and reversibility
''
Wesleyan University
is located in Middletown, CT, less than
a two hour drive from New York City. The closest airport
is Bradley International (BDL), located outside Hartford, CT.
See also Wesleyan's own
driving directions
and
transportation information.
For more information, contact
Rob Benedetto,
Cesar Silva,
or
Mike Keane.