Michael Björklund

Contact

Office HG J 16.1
Tel.nr: +41 44 632 0771

ETH Zürich
Departement Mathematik
Rämistrasse 101
8092 Zurich
Switzerland

Email: michael.bjoerklund (you know what) math.ethz.ch

Research interests

Ergodic theory, additive combinatorics, metric geometry, random walks, algebraic dynamics, bounded cohomology.

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Mathematics, ETH, Zürich.

Preprints

1.

Product set theorems in countable amenable groups
with A. Fish. In preparation.

2.

Ergodic Plünnecke inequalities
with A. Fish. In preparation.

3.

Quasiharmonic approximations and central limit theorems.
In preparation.

Recent publications

1.

Biharmonic functions on groups and limit theorems for quasimorphisms along random walks
with T. Hartnick. Accepted in Geometry & Topology.

Less recent publications

1.

The Asymptotic Shape Theorem for Generalized First Passage Percolation
To appear in Annals of Probability(2010).

2.

Ergodic Theorems for Random Clusters
To appear in Stochastic Proc. and applications(2010).

3.

Ergodic Theorems for Homogeneous Dilations
To appear in Progress in Probability(2010).

4.

Central Limit Theorems for Gromov Hyperbolic Groups
To appear in Journal of Theoretical Probability.

5.

Equidistribution of dilations of polynomial curves in nilmanifolds
with A. Fish. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 2111-2123.

6.

Continuous Measures on Homogeneous Spaces
with A. Fish. To appear in Annales de l'Institut Fourier.

7.

Almost Sure Absolute Continuity of Subordinated Bernoulli Convolutions
with D. Schnellmann. To appear in Ann. Inst. Henri Poincare Probab. Stat. .

8.

Almost Sure Equidistribution in Expansive Families
with D. Schnellmann. To appear in Indag. Math. (N.S.).

9.

Entropy range problems and actions of locally normal groups
with R. Miles. To appear in Discrete and Dynamical Systems - Series A.

10.

The g-theorem matrices are totally nonnegative
with A. Engström. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Volume 116, Issue 3, April 2009, Pages 730-732.