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28 April 2021: Jeffrey Diller (University of Notre Dame)

"A birational map with transcendental dynamical degree"

Thank you to Jeffrey Diller!

14 April 2021: Jung Kyu Canci (Hochschule Luzern)

"Good reduction for endomorphisms of the projective line in terms of the branch locus"

Thank you to Jung Kyu Canci!

7 April 2021: Ivan Chio (University of Rochester) and Valentin Huguin (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse)

"Silverman's Theorem E and equidistribution of chromatic zeros"

"Unicritical polynomial maps with rational multipliers"

Thank you to Ivan Chio and Valentin Huguin!

31 March 2021: Jasmin Raissy (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse)

"A geometric approach to parabolic curves"

Thank you to Jasmin Raissy!

17 March 2021: Jérémy Blanc (Universität Basel)

"Dynamical degrees of affine-triangular automorphisms of affine spaces"

Thank you to Jérémy Blanc!

10 March 2021: Yu Yasufuku (Nihon University)

"Integral points in orbits under finitely many morphisms: some examples"

Thank you to Yu Yasufuku!

3 March 2021: Xavier Buff (Université de Toulouse)

"Irreducibility in dynamics"

Thank you to Xavier Buff!

24 February 2021: Jamie Juul (Colorado State University)

"Arboreal Galois representations of PCF quadratic polynomials"

Thank you to Jamie Juul!

17 February 2021: Alex Carney (University of Rochester)

"What’s the value (and what’s the vector) in vector-valued canonical heights?"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Alex Carney for making these materials publicly available!

10 February 2021: Hang Fu (Naional Taiwan University)

"On the Uniformity of unlikely intersections"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Hang Fu for making these materials publicly available!

3 February 2021: Fabrizio Barroero (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)

"On the Zilber-Pink conjecture for complex abelian varieties and distinguished categories"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Fabrizio Barroero for making these materials publicly available!

27 January 2021: Clay Petsche (Oregon State University)

"Applications of the dynamical height pairing"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Clay Petsche for making these materials publicly available!

9 December 2020: Xander Faber (CCS / IDA)

"Misconceptions about projective space"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Xander Faber for making these materials publicly available!

1 December 2020: Sarah Koch (University of Michigan)

"A tale of two counts: real roots and irreducible factors of Gleason polynomials"

Notes from the speaker will be available soon. Thank you to Sarah Koch for making these materials publicly available!

25 November 2020: Nguyen-Bac Dang (Stony Brook University)

"Spectral interpretations of dynamical degrees"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Bac Dang for making these materials publicly available!

18 November 2020: Van Tu Le (Institute de Mathématiques de Toulouse)

"Eigenvalues of post-critically finite endomorphisms in higher dimensions"

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Yohsuke Matsuzawa (Brown University)

"Some applications of Vojta's conjecture to arithmetic dynamics"

Notes from Van Tu Le and from Yohsuke Matsuzawa are available. Thank you to Van Tu Le and Yohsuke Matsuzawa for making these materials publicly available!

4 November 2020: Harry Schmidt (Universität Basel)

"Polynomial dynamics and rigidity"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Harry Schmidt for making these materials publicly available!

28 October 2020: John Lesieutre (Penn State University)

"Tri-Coble surfaces and their automorphisms"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to John Lesieutre for making these materials publicly available!

21 October 2020: Davoud Cheraghi (Imperial College London)

"Complex Feigenbaum phenomena with degenerating geometries"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Davoud Cheraghi for making these materials publicly available!

7 October 2020: Bella Tobin (Oklahoma State University)

"Applications of dynamical Belyi maps"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Bella Tobin for making these materials publicly available!

30 September 2020: De-Qi Zhang (National University of Singapore)

"Endomorphisms of algebraic varieties: Dynamical degree vs Arithmetic degree"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to De-Qi Zhang for making these materials publicly available!

23 September 2020: Gabriel Vigny (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)

"The Northcott property for Hénon maps over function fields"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Gabriel Vigny for making these materials publicly available!

16 September 2020: Laura Capuano (Politecnico di Torino)

"Unlikely intersections in families of semi-abelian varieties and applications to GCD results over function fields"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Laura Capuano for making these materials publicly available!

9 September 2020: John Doyle (Oklahoma State University)

"Arithmetic and geometry of certain dynamical modular curves"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to John Doyle for making these materials publicly available!

2 September 2020: Nicole Looper (Brown University)

"The admissible pairing and quantitative Bogomolov for curves"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Nicole Looper for making these materials publicly available!

29 July 2020: Simion Filip (University of Chicago)

"The boundary of the ample cone of a K3 surface"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Simion Filip for making these materials publicly available!

22 July 2020: Thomas Tucker (University of Rochester)

"A Tits alternative for polynomials"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Tom Tucker for making these materials publicly available!

15 July 2020: Wade Hindes (Texas State University)

"Counting points of bounded height in orbits"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Wade Hindes for making these materials publicly available!

8 July 2020: Curtis T. McMullen (Harvard University)

"Billiards, heights and the arithmetic of non-arithmetic groups"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Curt McMullen for making these materials publicly available!

1 July 2020: Robert Benedetto (Amherst College)

"Integrality and p-adic discreteness results for postcritically finite parameters"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Rob Benedetto for making these materials publicly available!

24 June 2020: Thomas Gauthier (École Polytechnique)

"Rigidity in families"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Thomas Gauthier for making these materials publicly available!

17 June 2020: Charles Favre (École Polytechnique)

"Distribution of PCF polynomials"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Charles Favre for making these materials publicly available!

11 June 2020: Tanya Firsova (Kansas State University)

"Critical points of the multiplier map: equidistribution and accumulation"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Tanya Firsova for making these materials publicly available!

3 June 2020: Jason Bell (University of Waterloo)

"Some dynamical problems inspired by work in combinatorics"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Jason Bell for making these materials publicly available!

27 May 2020: Yûsuke Okuyama (Kyoto Institute of Technology)

"Crucial curvatures and minimal resultant loci for non-archimedean dynamics"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Yûsuke Okuyama for making these materials publicly available!

20 May 2020: Matthew Satriano (University of Waterloo)

"Height gaps, D-finiteness, and a weak dynamical Mordell-Lang conjecture"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Matt Satriano for making these materials publicly available!

13 May 2020: Eriko Hironaka (Florida State University / Harvard University)

"On the connectivity of the Epstein deformation space of Per_4(0)^* maps"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Eko Hironaka for making these materials publicly available!

6 May 2020: Junyi Xie (Université de Rennes 1)

"On the Zariski dense orbit conjecture"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Junyi Xie for making these materials publicly available!

29 April 2020: Rohini Ramadas (Brown University)

"Algebraic stability of meromorphic maps descended from Thurston’s pullback map"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Rohini Ramadas for making these materials publicly available!

22 April 2020: Myrto Mavraki (University of Basel)

"Elliptic surfaces, real sections and equidistribution"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Myrto Mavraki for making these materials publicly available!

15 April 2020: Romain Dujardin (Sorbonne Université)

"Degenerations of SL(2, C) representations and Lyapunov exponents"

Notes from the speaker are available. Thank you to Romain Dujardin for making these materials publicly available!

9 April 2020: Jorge Mello (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

"On integral points in semigroup orbits"

Slides and notes from the talk are available. Thank you to Jorge Mello and Marley Young for making these materials publicly available!

1 April 2020: Mattias Jonsson (University of Michigan)

"A transcendental dynamical degree"

Slides and notes from the talk are available. Thank you to Mattias Jonsson and John Doyle for making these materials publicly available!

25 March 2020: Joseph H. Silverman (Brown University)

"Post-critically finite maps on projective n-space for n at least 2 are sparse"

Slides and notes from the talk are available. Thank you to Joe Silverman and Wade Hindes for making these materials publicly available!