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Selected talks

These are talks or seminars for which I happen to have overheads in electronic form. Those marked ♦ are NOT suitable for printing because they use the latex 'pause' or 'beamer' package and may have many pages.

Research seminars

• Conversations between ergodic theory and number theory♦ (printable version, Bridging the Gaps Workshop, QMUL, October 30, 2009)
Dynamical properties of commuting automorphisms (series of lectures for the Summer School on Dynamical Systems and Number Theory, Graz July 9-13, 2007)
• Entropy in algebraic dynamics♦ (printable version, University of Loughborough, 10 November 2006)
• Periodic points detect subdynamics in rank one♦ (printable version, University of Warwick, 25 April 2006)
• Orbit-counting in non-hyperbolic arithmetic dynamical systems♦ (UK-Japan Winter School, Bury St Edmonds, 12 January 2006)
• Why Mahler measures arise in dynamics♦ (printable version, Mahler Measure in Mobile, 6 January 2006)
• Disjointness and entropy geometry (Univ. of Maryland, Spring Dynamics meeting, 19 March 2005; Princeton University 22 March 2005)
• Topological rigidity on connected groups (Princeton University, 15 March 2005; Penn State, 16 March 2005; Warwick University 24 May 2005)
• Heights and highly effective Zsigmondy theorems (SECANTS, Royal Holloway, 5 March 2005; Delft University/Inter-City Number Theory Seminar, 21 October 2005)
• Orbit counting without hyperbolicity (MPI Bonn, July 2004)
• Mixing and Diophantine problems (University of Kent 23 February 2004; Leicester 18 March 2004; QMUL 11 May 2004)

General audience talks

• Never gamble with a mathematician (Science Lecture for Children, UEA, 26/9/2009)
• Euler's miraculous mathematics of the infinite♦ (printable version, accompanying film clip and GP-Pari commands; 2007 Mathematical Association 6th Form Lecture, November 14 2007, UEA)
• Can Santa add up? (UEA Christmas Lecture for Children, December 9 2006; best viewed in OpenOffice)
• Continued Fractions♦ (printable version, NCC Head of Mathematics Conference 2006 Park Farm Hotel, Norwich, 8 March 2006)
• 14th Century planetary orbits to 21st Century number theory: what is ergodic theory?♦ (printable version, UEA, 29 November 2005)
• The remarkable arithmetic of recurrence sequences (Mathematical Association meeting, 11 May 2005)
• The beauty of Mathematics (Cinema City Norwich, 23 June 2002, pdf)
• Fibonacci numbers and periodic points (Mathematical Association meeting, 4 July 2002, needs IE6.0)

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