Ergodic Theory and Related Felds Workshops

我们计划在遍历理论和相关领域领域举办两个讲习班。对于这两个研讨会，我们预计将举行主要的讲座和讲座或小型课程，内容是关于L1函数的遍历平均沿整数子序列的逐点收敛的最新突破。除了关于基本遍历主题的小型课程外，我们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、概率理论和数论等相互关联的研究领域的数学家之间的讨论将有助于进一步推动在这些问题上取得的最新进展。正在寻找来自非洲的数学家和代表不足的群体，并邀请他们出席或发言。在以往讲习班的帮助下，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校和加纳夸梅·恩克鲁马科技大学之间建立了合作关系。作为这项合作的一部分，两名研究生和Knust数学系主任将参加2008年和2009年的讲习班。受邀参与者的地理位置(美国、法国、德国、俄罗斯、以色列、加拿大和非洲)所提供的广泛范围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，我们期望这些讲习班的会议记录将由《当代数学》出版，就像以往的讲习班一样。

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.