DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS WORKSHOP COLLEGE PARK, MARCH 12-15 Thursday, March 12 8:45 a.m. Hello, coffee, tea, bagels 9:30-10:25 J.Alexander (UMD) Frothy attractors 10:55-11:50 M.Gromov (IHES and UMD) Morphogenesis of Markov partitions 2:00-2:55 J.Auslander (UMD) Product recurrence and distal points 3:05-4:00 K.Alligood (GMU) Rotation Intervals for Diffeomorphisms of the Plane 4:10-5:05 Yu.Il'yashenko (Moscow State U.) Normal forms for local families, non-local bifurcations and Hilbert-Arnold problem Friday, March 13 8:45 a.m. Coffee, etc. 9:30-10:25 T.Ward (OSU) Higher order mixing for commuting group automorphisms 10:55-11:50 D.Rudolph (UMD) Restricted orbit equivalence for Z^d actions Graduate Student Session 2:00-2:30 N.Qian (Penn State) SL(n,Z) actions on some tori and nilmanifolds 2:35-3:05 M.Jiang (Penn State) On the global integrability of intermediate foliations for Anosov diffeomorphisms 3:10-3:40 J.Al-Khal (UMD) Construction of maps with sigma-finite absolutely continuous invariant measure 4:10-4:40 D.Huang (UMD) Flow Equivalence of Reducible Subshifts of Finite Type 4:45-5:15 M.Degli-Esposti (Penn State) Quantization of the Orientation Preserving Automorphisms of the Torus 5:20-5:50 F.Garibay-Bonales (UMD) Perturbations of time 1 maps of Anosov flows Saturday, March 14 ech.edu 8:45 a.m. Coffee, etc. 9:00-9:50 A.Banyaga (Penn State) Periodic orbits of contact flows 10:00-10:50 G.Courtois (IAS) Minimal entropy of locally symmetric spaces 11:05-12:00 S.Novikov (Landau Institute and UMD) Dynamical systems generated by closed 1-forms 2:30-3:25 F.Przytycki (Stony Brook) Characteristic Lyapunov exponents for invariant measures on Julia set are non-negative 3:35-4:30 J.Milnor (Stony Brook) On quadratic rational maps Sunday, March 15 8:45 a.m. Coffee, etc. 9:30-10:25 V.Afraimovich (Nizhni Novgorod and Penn State) Hyperbolicity of traveling waves in unbounded lattice models 10:55-11:50 A.Katok (Penn State) Higher jet invariants of smooth conjugacy for hyperbolic (and other ) dynamical systems