Maryland - Penn State Dynamics Workshop, March 22-25 2003

Conference Schedule


Friday March 21

3:00-4:00 pm

Mike Keane: Wesleyan, Amsterdam, Keio
--Departmental Colloquium, Math 3206--
On spontaneous emergence of opinions

7:30 -> Ergodic Party at the Boyles

finger food, dessert and libations - directions at www.math.umd.edu/~mmb/directions.html


Saturday March 22

8:30-9:00

Welcome and registration: Light refreshments in the lounge

9:00-9:45

Vitaly Bergelson, Ohio State University
weakly mixing and central sets

10:00-10:45

Elon Lindenstrauss, Stanford University
invariant measures and arithmetic quantum ergodicity

11:15-12:00

Nandor Simanyi, University of Alabama at Birmingham
upgrading the theorem on local ergodicity

Lunch

2:00-2:45

Bernard Host: University of Marne-La-Vallee and
Bryna Kra: Penn State Univerisity
Nonconventional ergodic averages - Lecture I (notes for all lectures in .pdf)

Parallel Sessions

3:00-3:45

Kamlesh Parwani: Northwestern Room 3206
An analog of the sharkovskii theorem on the annulus
Todd Fisher: Northwestern Room B0421
Hyperbolic sets that are not isolated

4:15-5:00

Roland Gunesch: University of Leipzig Room B0421
Precise asymptotics of periodic orbits for geodesic flow in nonpositive curvature
Pawel Pilarczyk: Jagiellonian University and Georgia Tech Room 3206
Algorithmic homology computation as a tool in dynamics

Sunday March 23

8:30-9:00

Light refreshments in the lounge

9:00-9:45

Idris Assani: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
On the speed of convergence of the Wiener Wintner ergodic theorem

10:00-10:45

Tomasz Downarowicz: Wroclaw Univesity of Technology and Ohio State
Entropy structure

11:15-12:00

Shmuel Friedland: University of Illinois at Chicago
Computation of entropy in statistical mechanics and information theory

Lunch

2:00-2:45

Host and Kra
Nonconventional ergodic averages - Lecture II (notes in .pdf)

Special Session in Honor of Professor Hsin Chu

3:15-4:00

Ta-Sun Wu: Case Western Reserve
On Chu Groups

4:15-5:00

Nelson Markley: Lehigh University
The contributions of Hsin Chu

5:30-7:30

Reception in the Rotunda
Emcee - D. Gulick

Monday March 24

8:30-9:00

Light refreshments in the lounge

9:00-9:45

Greg Swiatek: Penn State University
Dynamics and universality of unimodal maps with infinite criticality

10:00-10:45

Mark Levi: Penn State University
Stability and resonence webs in Hill's equations

11:15-12:00

Howie Weiss: Penn State University
Free energy as a dynamical and geometric invariant

Lunch

2:00-2:45

Host and Kra
Nonconventional ergodic averages - Lecture III (notes in .pdf)

Parallel Sessions


3:00-3:45

Boris Begun: University of Toronto
On weakly wandering vectors and weakly independent partitions
De-Jun Feng: Georgia Tech
Lyapunov exponents for products of matrices and multifractal analysis

4:00-4:45

Misha Guysinsky: Penn State University
Differentiability of the Hartman-Grobman linearization
Zoltan Buczolich: Eotvos University and University of North Texas
Divergent square ergodic averages

Tuesday

8:30-9:00

Light refreshments in the loungs

9:00-9:45

Dimitri Dolgopyat: IAS and University of Maryland
Some questions about the Brownian Motion

10:00-10:45

Cesar Silva: Williams College
Mixing on a class of rank 1 transformations

11:15-12:00

Karl Petersen: University of North Carolian, Chapel Hill
Dynamical properties of the Pascal adic transformation

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