The First JAMS Symposium

"Discrete Analysis and related topics"

(Supported by The Japan Association for Mathematical Sciences )

Date：Dec 18(Wed)-- 20(Fri) 2002.
Place： Kawai Hall (next to Math Inst), Aoba campus, Tohoku University.
Directions to Math Institute.

Program

• Dec.18 (Wed.)

  10:05--11:05　 Alex Lubotzky(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Ramanujan complexes

  11:20--12:20　 Andrzej Zuk(UMPA, ENS Lyon)
  Isoperimetric constants for modular surfaces

  14:00--15:00　 Shu Nakamura(University of Tokyo)
  The spectrum of random flux model and related topics

  15:15--16:15　 Atsushi Katsuda(Okayama University)
  Asymptotic problems for nilpotent extensions

  16:45--17:45　 Georges Alexopoulos(Universite Paris-Sud)
  Convolution powers and heat kernels on semisimple Lie groups

  
  

• Dec.19 (Thu.)

  10:05--11:05　 Amos Nevo(Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
  Stationary measures and actions of discrete groups

  11:20--12:20　 Masaki Izumi(Kyoto University)
  Non-commutative Poisson boundaries

  14:00--15:00　 Nicolas Monod(The University of Chicago)
  Negative curvature and bounded cohomology

  15:15--16:15　 Satoshi Ishiwata(Tohoku University)
  Asymptotic behavior of the transition probability of a random walk on a nilpotent covering graph

  16:30--17:30　 Vadim Kaimanovich(IRMAR, Universite Rennes1)
  Double ergodicity and its appications

  18:30--20:30　Party at Sendai Excel Tokyu Hotel

  
  

• Dec.20 (Fri.)

  10:05--11:05　 Guoliang Yu(Vanderbilt University)
  The Novikov conjecture and geometric properties of groups

  11:20--12:20　 Sadayoshi Kojima(Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  Circle packings on surfaces with projective structures

Organizing Committee:

Motoko Kotani (Chair)
Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University,
Sendai 980-8578, Japan
e-mail:kotani@math.tohoku.ac.jp,

Koji Fujiwara (Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University)
Toshikazu Sunada (Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University)
Hajime Urakawa (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)