Maryland-Penn State Regional Conference on 
		   Dynamical Systems and Related Topics 
			    Spring 1994 


	Saturday  March 12

8:30 -9:30 	Registration	
		(Please sign in. No conference fee. 
		Coffee, bagels, etc.)

9:30 		Ya. G. Sinai 
		Princeton University 
		Statistics of spectra of Laplace-Beltrami operators 
			on Liouville surfaces

11:00		David Fried 
		Boston University 
		Continuation of Zeta Functions for Hyperbolic Flows

1:45		Mikhail Gromov  
		University of Maryland and IHES 
		The entropy spectrum    

3:00		John Kulesza 
		George Mason University 
		Zero-dimensional covers of finite dimensional dynamical 
			systems

4:15		Leon Green 
		University of Minnesota 	
		Hedlund and dynamics in the U.S. 

8:00-10:00 	Dessert party at the Rudolphs'


	Sunday  March 13

9:30 		Jack Wagoner  
		U.C. Berkeley 
	   	Inert Actions on Periodic Points of Subshifts of Finite Type

11:00		Serge Troubetzkoy 
		SUNY Stony Brook 
		Markov partitions via shadowing for diffeomorphisms 
	   		with non-zero exponents

1:45 	        Alessandra Iozzi 	
		University of Maryland 
	 	Limit sets of isometry groups of exotic hyperbolic spaces 

3:00		Anatole Katok 	
		Penn State University
		Global rigidity of Anosov and non-uniformly hyperbolic 
			actions	of higher-rank Abelian groups

         	Graduate student talks:
4:15		Andrei Torok 
		Penn State University 
	    	Deformation Rigidity of Partially Hyperbolic Actions

4:45		Alexey Kononenko 	
		Penn State University 
		Duality and rigidity for cocycles


	Monday March 14

9:30		Krystyna Kuperberg   	
		Auburn University 
		Counterexamples to the Seifert Conjecture

11:00	        Konstantin Mischaikow 
		Georgia Institute of Technology 
		Isolating Neighborhoods, Conley Index, and Numerics
           		(with an application to the Lorenz equations)

1:45		Vitaly Bergelson   
		Ohio State University and the Technion 
		Polynomial Extensions of the Szemeredi Theorem 

3:00		Ethan Akin  	
		City College of New York (CUNY) 
		Which Transitive Maps are not Chaotic?

        	graduate student talks:
4:15		Ayse Sahin 	
		University of Maryland 
		Tiling representations of R^2 actions and alpha-equivalence 
        		in 2 dimensions

4:45		Jawad Al-Khal 
		University of Maryland 
		Sigma-finite measures for the quadratic family 


	Tuesday March 15 

9:30		Yuli Ilyashenko  
		Moscow State University and Penn State 
		Zeroes of Abelian integrals and generation of limit cycles

10:45 		Eli Glasner    
		Tel Aviv University 
		Topological entropy on spaces of measures and closed sets

12:00		Nicolai Chernov 
		Princeton University 
	     	Limit theorems for chaotic dynamical systems