This School will consist of intensive background lectures, designed as preparation for the subsequent workshop.

Exact contents will depend on participants: please get in touch to register your interest - contact Oliver Jenkinson ( omj (at) maths.qmul.ac.uk ).
 
 

                                                                MONDAY 13th November
 

11am-12pm (Maths Common Room) :  Coffee and Registration 

12pm-1pm (room 103) :              Introduction to Ergodic Optimization 1
 

1pm-3pm:      Lunch  

3pm-4pm (room 103) :              Introduction to Ergodic Optimization 2
 

4pm-4.15pm (Maths Common Room) :  Refreshments 

4.15pm-5.15pm (room 103) :              Problem Session
 

                                                                 TUESDAY 14th November
 

11am-12pm (room G2) :             

Oscar Bandtlow (Queen Mary)      Functional Analysis for Ergodic Optimization and Thermodynamic Formalism

12pm-1pm (room G2) :              Introduction to Ergodic Optimization 3
 

1pm-2pm (room G2) :

Shaun Bullett (Queen Mary)      Sturmian orbits and the Mandelbrot set

2pm-3.30pm:      Lunch  

3.30pm-4pm (Maths Common Room) :              Discussions
 

4pm-5pm (room 103) :  Dynamical Systems Seminar  

Phil Rippon (Open University)      The escaping set of a transcendental meromorphic function