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  {\Large BGU Math}

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  {\Huge BGU Probability and Ergodic Theory  (PET) seminar}\\[0.5\baselineskip]
  {\Large 2025--26--A meetings}


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  \textbf{Date} & \textbf{Speaker} &
  \textbf{Title}\\
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  \textrm{Oct 30}%
%
  &
  Tomer Zimhoni
    (BGU)%
  &
  Retraction theorems in group-compactifications.\\

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\textrm{Nov  6}%
%
  &
  Itay Glazer
    (Technion)%
  &
  Small ball estimates and mixing for word maps on unitary groups\\

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\textrm{Nov 13}%
%
  &
  Yair Glasner
    (BGU)%
  &
  Rigid actions of hyperbolic groups admit only commutative factors\\

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\textrm{Nov 20}%
%
  &
  Michael Glasner
    (Weizmann Institute)%
  &
  Character Rigidity and the Stuck-Zimmer Conjecture for Nonuniform Lattices\\

  \hline


\textrm{Nov 27}%
%
  &
   Eitan Sapir
    (BGU)%
  &
  On the generation problem in Thompsons groups F\_n\\

  \hline


\textrm{Dec  4}%
%
  &
  Michael Lin  &
  Entropy for power-bounded linear operators and Sarnak’s conjecture\\

  \hline


\textrm{Dec 11}%
%
  &
  Robert Simon
    (London School of Economics and Political Sciences)%
  &
  Measure theoretic paradoxes from continuous optimization\\

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\textrm{Dec 18}%
%
  &
  Daniel Tsodikovich
    (the Institute of Science and Technology Austria)%
  &
  Local rigidity of the Suris potential as an integrable standard twist map\\

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\textrm{Dec 25}%
%
  &
  Galina Livshyts
    (Georgia Institute of Technology)%
  &
  Efficient net estimates and the smallest singular value of random matrices\\

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\textrm{Jan  1}%
%
  &
  Amir Algom
    (University of Haifa)%
  &
  Recent Progress on Fourier Decay for Stationary Measures\\

  \hline


\textrm{Jan  8}%
%
  &
  ACTION NOW! NO SEMINAR  &
  TBA\\

  \hline


\textrm{Jan 15}%
%
  &
  Ankit Sahu
    (BGU)%
  &
  Counting Dihedral Extensions of Q that Ramify over Two Primes\\

  \hline


\textrm{Jan 22}%
%
  &
  Amit Levinson-Sela
    (BGU)%
  &
  Redundant generation of groups acting on trees\\

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Meetings are on \textsc{Thursdays}, \emph{11:10-12:00}, in \textbf{-101} (unless otherwise mentioned)


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