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Title: Operator-theoretic characterization of proximal flows of discrete groups
Speaker: Mehrdad Kalantar
Speaker Info: Houston University
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We will give an operator-theoretic characterization of (strongly) proximal flows of discrete groups G. This characterization provides a deep connection between operator theory and the topological ergodic theory of Furstenberg. We will discuss how these ideas were used to settle several longstanding open problems in analytic group theory.