Mini-Symposium: Entropy Methods in Dynamical Systems

Tuesday 4 - Wednesday 5 December 2007

 

Program

Each talk will include 5 to 10 minutes of question and discussion time, at the speaker's discretion.

	Tuesday 4 December	Wednesday 5 December
8:45 - 9:15	Registration	Registration
9:15 - 10:10	Keynote: Benjamin Weiss (Hebrew U of Jerusalem) On the entropy of stationary processes	Keynote: Benjamin Weiss (Hebrew U of Jerusalem) Entropy and mean-dimension in topological dynamics
10:10 - 10:40	Gary Froyland (UNSW) Phase transitions and equilibrium states	Valentin Golodets (UNSW) Non-Bernoulli systems with completely positive entropy
10:40 - 11:00	Morning Tea	Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:30	Robin Hill (RMIT) Minimising the L1 norm of signals subject to convolution constraints	Keynote: Rua Murray (Waikato) Maximum entropy methods for the computation of invariant measures
11:30 - 12:00	Girish Nair (Melbourne) Information rates in the feedback control of dynamical systems	Rua Murray (continued)
12:00 - 12:50	Keynote: Anthony Quas (Victoria) Global behaviour of piecewise isometries	Keynote: Tony Dooley (UNSW) Structure of non-linear dynamical systems and critical dimension
12:50	Lunch	Lunch

Conference dinner Tuesday 4th December.

Keynote speakers

BENJAMIN WEISS was born in New York City in 1941 and received an MA in Math from the Graduate School of Science of Yeshiva University in 1962 and a PhD from Princeton Univ in 1965. His thesis adviser was William Feller and the topic was on connections between partial differential equations and probability theory.

He was a research staff member at IBM Research from 1965-1967, where he was drawn into ergodic theory by Roy Adler. In 1967 he came to the Hebrew Univerity of Jerusalem which has been his home ever since. Under the influence of Hillel Furstenberg, Professor Weiss began working in topological dynamics and these three fields probability theory, ergodic theory and topological dynamics have been the main areas of his work.

ANTHONY QUAS is a Canada Research Chair in Ergodic Theory at the University of Victoria. He studied for his PhD at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and was subsequently a Research Fellow at King's College Cambridge and then worked at the University of Memphis for eight years. His interests are in ergodic theory, dynamical systems, probability and information theory. In a recent project he applied probability theory to an analysis of the frequency of pathological outcomes in the STV voting scheme.

RUA MURRAY is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury (NZ). He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Canterbury, and a PhD from the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. After post-doctoral positions at University College London and the University of Victoria (Canada) he returned to New Zealand to a lectureship at the University of Waikato (1999 - 2007). His main research interests are computational aspects of ergodic theory, particularly numerical methods for the determination of invariant measures.

ANTHONY DOOLEY studied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the Australian National University, graduating with First Class Honours in Pure Mathematics in 1972. He completed his PhD in Mathematics in the Institute of Advanced Studies in 1977. He has been Professor at the School of Mathematics at UNSW since 1999.

His research interests are in Modern Analysis, and are concentrated in Harmonic Analysis on Lie groups, and Measurable Dynamics. Author of over 70 research publications in refereed journals, he is a Principal Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems. He is also President of the UNSW Academic Board 2004-2008. He was a member of the ARC Expert Advisory Committee on Mathematics, Information and Communication Sciences for the period 2001-2003.

Organising committee

Prof. Philip Broadbridge, AMSI
Prof. Tony Guttmann, MASCOS
Dr Gary Froyland, UNSW

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