Workshop on Probabilistic Limit Laws for Dynamical Systems

13-17 June 2005, Edinburgh

Scientific Programme and Participants

Monday 13 June

09.00-10.00	Registration and coffee
10.00-11.00	Omri Sarig Critical exponents for dynamical systems
11.00-12.00	Jon Aaronson On the mixing coefficients of piecewise monotonic maps
12.00-14.00	Lunch, 14 India Street
14.00-15.00	Renato Feres Random billiards and diffusion
15.00-15.30	Tea
15.30-16.30	Jens Marklof Limit theorems in ergodic theory and lattice point problems
17.30	Reception at ICMS, 14 India Street

Tuesday 14 June

09.30-10.30	Sebastien Gouëzel Limit theorems in the stadium billiard
10.30-11.00	Coffee
11.00-12.00	Marc Peigne On the end of rank one non compact surfaces of finite type
12.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.00	Mark Holland Mixing properties of compact group extensions
15.00-16.00	Domokos Szasz Limit laws and recurrence for the planar infinite-horizon Lorentz process
16.00-16.30	Tea
16.30-17.30	Stephane Le Borgne Examples of stochastic behaviour of dynamical systems with slow decay of correlations
19.00	Informal Group Supper  – Pizza Express, Stockbridge

Wednesday 15 June

09.30-10.30	Kostya Khanin Limit distributions for sums of distances
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11.00-12.00	Robert Mackay Ergodic Pumping: a mechanism to drive biomolecular conformation changes
	Free Afternoon

Thursday 16 June

09.30-10.30	Yves Guivarch Renewal theorems, products of random matrices, and dynamics of endomorphisms on the torus
10.30-11.00	Coffee
11.00-12.00	Manfred Denker Chen-Stein method and Poisson limit laws
12.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.00	Oscar Bandtlow Bounded distortion versus decaying derivatives
15.00-16.00	Marta Tyran-Kaminska Limit theorems and the Perron-Frobenius operator
16.00-16.30	Tea
16.30-17.30	Michael Field Geometric invariants of hyperbolic flows
19.00	Conference Dinner  – Howies, Waterloo Place