Schedule of Talks

All talks are in Room 3206 of the Math Deparment unless otherwise noted.

Friday March 17  --  Math Department Colloquia

1:30	Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, College de France
	Complex Brjuno functions

3:00	Yakov Sinai, Princeton University
	All about the standard map


Saturday March 18

8:30    Coffee, Fruit, and Bagels in Math Department Lounge, Room 3201

9:10	Opening Remarks

9:15-10:15	Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, College de France
"Dynamics after a homoclinic bifurcation"

BREAK

10:45-11:45	Sheldon Newhouse, Michigan State University
"Distortion estimates for two dimensional diffeomorphisms"

LUNCH

1:30-2:30	Viviane Baladi, Universite de Paris-Sud
"Almost sure rates of mixing for random unimodal maps"

BREAK

3:00-4:00	Nikolai Chernov, University of Alabama, Birmingham
"Statistical Properties of SRB Measures in Billiards"

4:15-5:00	Eugene Gutkin, University of Southern California
"Enforcing chaos in billiards on surfaces of constant curvature"

(Room B0421)
4:15-5:00	Denis Kosygin, Princeton University
"Hyperbolic standard maps"

7:00		Party at the home of Michael Jakobson


Sunday March 19

8:30    Coffee, Fruit, and Bagels in Math Department Lounge, Room 3201

9:15-10:15	Anatole Katok, Penn State University
"Exotic dynamics in the smooth and real-analytic category"

BREAK

10:45-11:45	Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas
"Geometric mechanisms for orbits of unbounded energy in periodic perturbations"

LUNCH

1:30-2:15	Elon Lindenstrauss, Institute for Advanced Study
"Infinite Dimensional Topological Dynamics: Mean Dimension, Some Applications,
and Open Problems"

(Room B0421)
1:30-2:00	Victoria Sadovskaya, Penn State University
"Multifractal analysis of conformal axiom A flows"

(Room B0421)
2:15-2:45	Samuel Senti, Universite de Paris-Sud
"Hausdorff Dimension of the Exceptional Set in Jakobson's Theorem"

2:45-3:30	Victor Donnay, Bryn Mawr College
"Embedded surfaces with ergodic geodesic flow are dense"

(Room B0421)
3:00-3:30	Boris Kalinin, Penn State University
"Measurable rigidity and disjointness for Z^k actions by toral automorphisms"

BREAK

4:00-4:30	Vadim Kaloshin, Princeton University
"An elementary proof of existence of Whitney's stratification"

(Room B0421)
4:00-4:30	Malgorzata Stawiska, Northwestern University
"Hyperbolic sets for multidimensional holomorphic maps"

4:45-5:30	Alexander Tovbis, University of Central Florida
"Splitting of separatrices and exponentially small phenomena"

(Room B0421)
4:45-5:30	Christopher Cleveland, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Chaotic Lozi Attractors"

5:30-7:30	Reception in Math Department Rotunda


Monday March 20

8:30    Coffee, Fruit, and Bagels in Math Department Lounge, Room 3201

9:15-10:15	Leonid Bunimovich, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Dispersing, Defocusing and Astigmatism"

BREAK

10:45-11:30	Nandor Simanyi, University of Alabama, Birmingham
"The Theorem on Mappings With Constant Rank -- An Application for Billiards"

(Room B0421)
10:45-11:30	Arek Goetz, San Francisco State University
"Dichotomy of a two parameter system of rotations"

LUNCH

1:15-2:00	Howard Weiss, Penn State University
"The Dynamics of Schelling-Type Segregation Models and a Graph Laplacian
Variational Problem"

(Room B0421)
1:15-2:00	Chris Hoffman, University of Washington
"Which endomorphisms are isomorphic to Bernoulli endomorphisms"

2:15-3:15	Konstantin Mischaikow, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Rigorous Computation of Low Dimensional Dynamics in High Dimensional Systems"

BREAK

3:45-4:30	Gregory Galperin, Eastern Illinois University
"Calculus of the number of billiard geodesics"

(Room B0421)
3:45-4:30	Todd Young, Ohio University and University of Maryland 
"Entropy and Rotation Intervals for Circle Maps Near Saddle-node Bifurcations"

4:45-5:30	Alexander Blokh, University of Alabama, Birmingham
"Growing Trees, Laminations and the Dynamics on the Julia Set"

(Room B0421)
4:45-5:30	Huyi Hu, Penn State University
"Decay of correlations of some almost Anosov systems"


Tuesday March 21

8:30    Coffee, Fruit, and Bagels in Math Department Lounge, Room 3201

9:15-10:15	Dmitry Dolgopyat, Penn State University
"Dynamics of partially hyperbolic systems"

10:30-11:30	Gregory Swiatek, Penn State University
"The Collet-Eckmann Condition in One-Dimnesional Dynamics: a survey"

11:45-12:45	Manfred Denker, University of Goettingen
"The relative variational principle for fibre expanding systems"