Schedule of Talks This schedule is complete but still subject to perturbation. Please keep an eye on our web page for updated information, and pick up a printed schedule when you arrive here. Symbolic Workshop All Thursday and Friday talks are in Room 3206 of the Math Building. Thursday March 19 [Each talk is 30 minutes.] 9:00 Ethan Coven, Wesleyan University and MSRI The symbolic dynamics of tiling the integers 10:00 Fred Roush, Alabama State University Strong shift equivalence over abelian group rings 11:00 Jack Wagoner, University of California, Berkeley Classification of subshifts of finite type and nonnegative algebraic K-theory over polynomial rings LUNCH 1:00 Arek Goetz, Boston University Sofic subshifts and piecewise isometric systems 2:00 Susan Williams, University of South Alabama Symbolic dynamics and symmetries of knots BREAK 3:30 Natasha Jonoska, University of South Florida Multiplicities of SFT covers 4:30 Anthony Quas, University of Memphis Subshifts of multi-dimensional shifts of finite type Friday March 20 [Each workshop talk is 40 minutes.] 9:00 Ulf Fiebig, Universitat Heidelberg Compact factors of countable state Markov shifts 10:00 Sam Lightwood, University of Maryland An embedding theorem for a class of Z^2 MSFTs 11:00 Klaus Schmidt, University of Vienna Fundamental cocycles, Wang tiles, and higher-dimensional shifts of finite type LUNCH 1:30 Selim Tuncel, University of Washington Resolving Markov chains onto Bernoulli shifts Department of Mathematics Colloquium (Room 3206) 3:00 Yakov Sinai, Princeton University Statistical hydrodynamics and hyperbolic dynamics 8:00 Party at the Boyles' house MD-PSU Dynamics Conference The location of each talk, either Room 3206 or B0421 of the Math Building, is designated to the left of the speaker's name. Saturday March 21 8:30 Coffee and Bagels/Doughnuts in Room 3201 9:30 Opening Remarks in Room 3206 9:35-10:05 3206 Yakov Sinai, Princeton University Transport in almost-periodic media BREAK 10:30-11:20 3206 James Yorke, University of Maryland Embedding and dimension I (short course) LUNCH 1:30-2:00 3206 Bob Williams, University of Texas and IAS Solenoids and the origins of shift equivalence 2:10-3:00 3206 Jack Wagoner, University of California, Berkeley Strong shift equivalence theory BREAK 3:30-4:20 3206 Ki Hang Kim, Alabama State University Resolution of Williams conjecture 4:30-5:20 3206 Nicholas Ormes, University of Texas Characterization of zeta functions of SFTs Sunday March 22 8:30 Coffee and Bagels/Doughnuts in Room 3201 9:15-10:05 3206 Jerome Buzzi, CNRS/Institut de Mathematiques de Luminy Markov diagrams for higher dimensional dynamical systems B0421 Natalie Priebe, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A class of tilings of $Z^2$ having mixed dynamical spectrum and visually dramatic self-correlations BREAK 10:30-11:20 3206 James Meiss, University of Colorado Continuation from the anti-integrable limit: symbolic dynamics and bifurcations B0421 Charles Radin, University of Texas Hierarchical Structures LUNCH 1:30-2:20 3206 James A. Yorke, University of Maryland Embedding and dimension II (short course) BREAK 2:45-3:15 3206 Alexei Glutsuk, Institute for Advanced Study Limit sets at infinity of liftings to the plane of nonself-intersected curves in the torus B0421 Florence Newberger, University of Maryland The ergodic theory of the Bowen-Margulis measure for real rank one symmetric spaces 3:25-3:55 3206 Youngna Choi, Northwestern University Attractors for one dimensional Lorenz-like maps B0421 Boris Kalinin, Penn State University Remarks on invariant measures for higher-rank hyperbolic abelian actions by toral endomorphisms BREAK 4:20-4:50 3206 Radu Orendovici, Penn State University Dynamics of the local map for the FitzHugh-Nagumo equation B0421 Guo-Cheng Yuan, University of Maryland An open set of maps for which every point is absolutely unshadowable 5:00-5:30 3206 Chris Hillman, University of Washington Empires in Sturmian Systems B0421 Josh Tempkin, University of Maryland Spurious lyapunov exponents computed using the Eckmann-Ruelle approach 5:45 Reception in Math Building Rotunda Monday March 23 8:30 Coffee and Bagels/Doughnuts in Room 3201 9:15-10:05 3206 Makoto Mori, Nihon University Dynamical systems on Cantor sets B0421 Serge Troubetzkoy, University of Alabama, Birmingham Anosov maps with small holes BREAK 10:30-11:20 3206 Michiko Yuri, Sapporo University Statistical properties for multi-dimensional intermittent maps B0421 Jim Olsen, North Dakota State University Uniform sequences in Bourgain and Wierdl's pointwise ergodic theorem LUNCH 1:30-2:20 3206 Howie Weiss, Penn State University Almost transitive geodesic flows for small perturbations of the round metric on the sphere B0421 Manfred Denker, Universitat Goettingen Polynomial skew products in C^2 BREAK 2:50-3:40 3206 Scot Adams, University of Minnesota Dynamics on Lorentz manifolds B0421 Doris Fiebig, Universitat Heidelberg Finite equivalence for countable state Markov shifts BREAK 4:10-5:00 3206 Greg Swiatek, Penn State University Inducing for complex polynomials B0421 Tom Ward, University of East Anglia Typical dynamics associated to rings of S-integers Tuesday March 24 8:30 Coffee and Bagels/Doughnuts in Room 3201 9:15-10:05 3206 Vadim Kaloshin, Princeton University Properties of periodic orbits for generic diffeomorphisms B0421 Roza Galeeva, Instituto de Matematicas U.N.A.M., Cuernavaca The dimension for Poincare recurrences for piecewise linear maps on the interval 10:15-11:05 3206 Boris Solomyak, University of Washington Parabolic iterated function systems with overlaps B0421 Piotr Zgliczynski, Jagiellonian University On stability of some forcing relations of periodic orbits for multidimensional perturbations of 1-dimensional maps BREAK 11:30-12:20 3206 Anatole Katok, Penn State University Growth of periodic orbits for smooth maps from $C^1$ to $C^{\infty}$: results and open problems