Contributions to Ergodic Theory and Probability

Proceedings of the First Midwestern Conference on Ergodic Theory held at the Ohio State University, March 27-30, 1970

Continuous flows in the plane.
New conditions for existence of invariant measures in ergodic theory.
Approximation and spectral multiplicity.
Approximation and invariance.
On some applications of probability methods to additive number theoretic problems.
Example of an ergodic measure preserving transformation on an infinite measure space.
Some results on convergence rates for weighted averages.
A note on ?-finite invariant measures.
Super-mean-valued functions and semipolar sets.
Liftings and derivation bases.
Lipschitz functions and the prevalence of strict ergodicity for continuous-time flows.
Weak ratio convergence of measures in infinite measure spaces.
Transformations without finite invariant measure have finite strong generators.
On the Araki-Woods asymptotic ratio set and non-singular transformations of a measure space.
Imbedding Bernoulli shifts in flows.
On the existence of a ?-finite invariant measure under a generalized Harris condition.
The Ambrose-Kakutani theorem and the poisson process.
Generalized martingales.
Local ergodic theorems for N-parameter semigroups of operators.