Event Detail

Event Type: 
Probability Seminar
Date/Time: 
Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 09:00
Location: 
GLSN 100
Event Link: 
http://www.math.oregonstate.edu/~kovchegy/Seminar/index.html

Speaker Info

Guest Speaker: 
Anthony Quas
Institution: 
University of Victoria
Abstract: 

Starting from a very concrete dynamical problem involving piecewise isometries of the plane, we are led to elementary number-theoretic questions involving visible points of lattices. These yield surprising dynamical consequences.