Schedule

The schedule below is provisional. 

All talks will take place in Amory C417 (Building 29 on the map here: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/visit/directions/streathammap/).

The drinks reception on Thursday evening will take place in the Harrison Café (a.k.a. the Engine Room) just inside the main entrance to the Harrison Building (Building 23 on the map above). 

Thursday 22nd June 2023 (LMS Celebrating New Appointments Meeting)

• 1.00pm - 1.50pm: Demi Allen
  Inhomogeneous Diophantine Approximation for systems of linear forms with primitivity constraints

• 2:00pm - 2.40pm: Short talks
  2:00pm - 2.10pm: Amlan Banaji
  Fourier decay of non-linear images of self-similar measures   
  2.10pm - 2.20pm: Maryam Hosseini
  Topological Factoring of Zero Dimensional Dynamical Systems
  2.20pm-2.30pm: Julian Newman
  Restrictedly invariant measures  
  2.30pm - 2.40pm: George Bender
  A theorem on the cardinality of the horizontal slices of Okamoto's functions 

• 2.40pm - 3.05pm: Coffee Break

• 3.05pm - 3.55pm: Sanju Velani
  The Shrinking Target Problem: developing a manifold theory

• 4.05pm - 4.55pm: Kenneth Falconer
  Distances and patterns at small and large scales

• 5.00pm - 6.15pm: Drinks Reception (Harrison Café)

• 7.00pm onwards: Dinner at Hotel du Vin Exeter (meet in front of the Harrison Café at 6.20pm to walk to restaurant)

Friday 23rd June 2023

• 9.30am - 10.20am: Victor Beresnevich
  Inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation: some problems and some results 

• 10.30am - 11.00am: Short talks
  10.30am - 10.40am: George Datseris
  Estimating the fractal dimension: A comparative review and open source implementations
  10.40am - 10.50am: John Blackman
  Restrictions on the base-p expansions of putative counterexamples to the p-adic Littlewood Conjecture
  10.50am - 11.00am: Nathan Hughes
  Effective Diophantine Approximation in Number Fields

• 11.00am - 11.30am: Coffee Break

• 11.30am - 12.10pm: Polina Vytnova
  Dimension function of the Lagrange and Markov spectra 

• 12.15pm - 12:55pm: Thomas Jordan
  Shrinking Target Problem with Rectangular Targets

• 1:00pm - 2:00pm: Lunch (not provided)

• 2:00pm - 2.40pm: Han Yu
  Metric diophantine approximation on Cantor sets

• 2.45pm - 3.25pm: Henna Koivusalo
  Dimension of \tau-badly approximable points as a subset of \tau-well approximable points

• 3.30pm - 4:00pm: Coffee break

• 4:00pm - 4.40pm: Simon Baker
  Quantitative recurrence and the shrinking target problem for overlapping iterated function systems