Ergodic Theory and Related Felds Workshops

我们计划在遍历理论和相关领域举办两次讲习班。在这两个研讨会中，我们预计将有关于L1函数沿整数子序列遍历平均的逐点收敛的最新突破的主要演讲和讲座或迷你课程。除了提供基本遍历主题的迷你课程外，我们正试图在为期四天的研讨会期间将年轻人（研究生、博士后、助理教授）和高级研究人员聚集在一起。我们期待来自调和分析、遍历理论、概率论和数论等相互关联的研究领域的数学家之间的讨论，有助于进一步推动这些问题的最新进展。来自非洲和代表性不足群体的数学家正在被寻找并邀请参加或发言。在过去讲习班的帮助下，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校与加纳的夸梅·恩克鲁玛科技大学之间建立了合作关系。作为合作的一部分，两名研究生和KNUST数学系主任将参加2008年和2009年的研讨会。被邀请的参与者（美国、法国、德国、俄罗斯、以色列、加拿大和非洲）的地理位置赋予了广泛的光谱，增加了北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的知名度。它还有助于传播在这些讲习班上提出或讨论的成果。最后，我们期望这些研讨会的论文集能像过去的研讨会一样在《当代数学》杂志上发表。

We are planning two workshops in the area of Ergodic theory and Related Fields. For these two workshops we anticipate the major talks and lectures or mini courses to be given on the recent breakthroughs on the pointwise convergence of ergodic averages along subsequences of integers for L1 functions. To the exception of mini courses to be given on basic ergodic themes we are trying to bring together young (graduate students, Post Doc, Assistant professors) and senior researchers during the four days of these workshops. We expect discussions between mathematicians from interconnected research areas, such as Harmonic Analysis, Ergodic theory, Probability theory and Number theory, to help further the recent progress made on these questions.Mathematicians from Africa and under-represented groups are being looked for and invited to attend or to speak. By the help of past workshops collaboration has been established between UNC-Chapel Hill and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in GHANA. As part of this collaboration two graduate students and the Head of KNUST mathematics Department will participate in the 2008 and 2009 workshops. The broad spectrum given by the geographical location of the invited participants (USA, France, Germany, Russia, Israel, Canada, and Africa) adds visibility to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It also helps disseminate the results presented or discussed at these workshops. Finally we expect the proceedings of these workshops to be published by Contemporary Mathematics as was the case with past workshops.