Speaker: 

Associate Professor David Damanik

Institution: 

Rice University

Time: 

Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

We discuss joint work with Jon Chaika and Helge Krueger. The main result concerns explicit criteria for the absence of absolutely continuous spectrum for Schrodinger operators whose potentials are generated by an interval exchange transformation. In particular, we provide the first example of an invertible ergodic transformation of a compact metric space for which the associated Schrodinger operators have purely singular spectrum for every non-constant continuous sampling function.