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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