Some of my lectures


  • Matrix problems arising from symbolic dynamics
    (Kansas State University, May 2009)


  • Copenhagen Lectures June 2008:
    1: Background
    2: Automorphisms of the shift
    3-4: Strong shift equivalence space and its applications
    7: Three open problems
    8: The wild world of multidimensional SFTs


  • Multidimensional shifts of finite type and sofic shifts: subsystems and quotients
    (Rocky Mountain Dynamical Systems Conference, May 2008)

  • Shifts of finite type and sofic shifts: from Z to Z^d
    (De Paul Colloquium, May 2008)

  • Overview of Markovian maps
    (BIRS 2007, Banff Canada)

  • Symbolic extensions of intermediate smoothness
    (School on Information and Randomness, Universidad de Chile, December 2006)

  • Expansive maps which commute with shifts of finite type
    (Coloquio LV Sistemas Dinamicos, Universidad de Chile, October 2006)

  • Expansive maps commuting with shifts of finite type
    (Northwest Dynamics Symposium, Univ. Victoria, August 2005)

  • Symbolic extensions and entropy structure (pdf, dvi, ps)
    (MSRI Conference on Recent Progress in Dynamics, 27 September 2004)

  • Almost isomorphism of countable state Markov shifts
    (Max Planck Institute, Bonn, 22 June 2004)

  • The entropy theory of symbolic extensions
    (Max Planck Institute, Bonn, 6 July 2004)
    [This was Part I of a two-lecture series; the climax Part II was the
    lecture on Entropy Structure by Tomasz Downarowicz.]