The summer school will be held June 14 – 17, with all activities between 10AM and 3PM, Chicago time zone (the schedule below is given in Chicago time, to get the correct time in your zone make the conversion !!). Each course will have four lectures of 45′, two TA sessions with problems, and four short talks sessions.

The two mini courses will be:

– David Kerr (University of Münster): Sofic entropy and orbit equivalence

TA’s: Chris Shriver and Martín Gilabert.

– Florian Richter (Northwestern University): Dynamical methods in additive combinatorics

TA’s: Anh Le and Vicente Saavedra.

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Schedule

Monday June 14

10:00-10:45 Course 1: David Kerr Video Lecture 1

10:45-11:00 Break (rooms available)

11:00-11:45 Course 2: Florian Richter Video Lecture 1

11:45:12:00 Break (rooms available)

12:00-13:00 Long Break (eat something !)

13:00-13:45 TA Session Course David Kerr

13:45-14:00 Break (rooms available)

14:00-14:45 TA Session Course Florian Richter

Tuesday June 15

10:00-10:45 Course 1: David Kerr Video Lecture 2

10:45-11:00 Break (rooms available)

11:00-11:45 Course 2: Florian Richter Video Lecture 2

11:45:12:00 Break (rooms available)

12:00-13:00 Long Break (eat something !)

13:00-13:45 TA Session Course David Kerr

13:45-14:00 Break

Short Talks:

14:00-14:20 Anush Tserunyan
Cost and treeability Video

14:30-14:50 Ben Hayes
Sofic entropy of algebraic actions Video

Wednesday June 16

10:00-10:45 Course 1: David Kerr Video Lecture 3

10:45-11:00 Break (rooms available)

11:00-11:45 Course 2: Florian Richter Video Lecture 3

11:45:12:00 Break (rooms available)

12:00-13:00 Long Break (eat something !)

13:00-13:45 TA Session Course Florian Richter

13:45-14:00 Break (rooms available)

Short Talks:

14:00-14:20 Donald Robertson
IP Sets in Amenable Groups Video

14:30-14:50 Renling Jin
Nonstandard but elementary proof of Szemeredi’s Theorem Video

Thursday June 17

10:00-10:45 Course 1: David Kerr Video Lecture 4

10:45-11:00 Break (rooms available)

11:00-11:45 Course 2: Florian Richter Video Lecture 4

11:45-12:00 Break (rooms available)

12:00-13:00 Long Break (eat something !)

Short Talks:

13:00-13:20 Joel Moreira
Multiplicative recurrence and partition regularity Video

13:30-13:50 Nikos Frantzikinakis
Furstenberg systems of bounded sequences Video

14:00-14:15 Break (rooms available)

Short Talks:

14:15-14:35 Francois Le Maitre
Belinskaya’s theorem is optimal Video

14:45-15:05 Lewis Bowen
Weak Pinsker Entropy Video