| September 7: |
NOTE: FALL 2000: Fractals, ergodic theory and geometric Ramsey theory Rm. 3206 |
| Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University) |
| September 14: |
Fractals, ergodic theory, and geometric Ramsey theory, II . Rm 3206 |
| Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University) |
| September 21: |
Density of Hyperbolicity and Homoclinic Bifurcation
|
| Martin Sambarino (UMCP), samba@math.umd.edu |
| September 28: |
Nonuniformly expanding dynamics: Stability
from a probabilistic viewpoint |
| Jose Alves (University of Porto and UMCP) |
| October 5: |
Dynamical Coloring of Knots |
| Susan Williams (University of South Alabama), williams@mathstat.usouthal.edu |
| October 12: |
Knots, Links and Lehmer's Question |
| Dan Silver (University of South Alabama ), silver@math.umd.edu |
| October 19: |
Some new sample path concepts and their implications
|
| Paul Shields , pshield2@uoft02.utoledo.edu |
| November 1: |
Stabilty of the inverted pendulum by a topological argument.
This is a talk for undergraduates, in the undergraduate colloquium (see www.wam.umd.edu/~sdlawton/lectures.html), 4:00 PM in Math 3206. |
| Mark Levi (Pennsylvania State University ), levi@math.psu.edu |
| November 2: |
Periodic motions of charged particles in magnetic fields.
|
| Mark Levi (Pennsylvania State University ), levi@math.psu.edu |
| November 9: |
Stochastic stability of nonuniformly expanding maps
|
| Jose Alves (University of Porto and UMCP ), jfalves@umd.edu |
| November 16: |
Aperiodic tilings in the hyperbolic plane and symbolic dynamics |
| Chaim Goodman-Strauss (University of Arkansas), cgstraus@comp.uark.edu |
| November 30: |
Smooth embedding of non-smooth sets |
| Jim Yorke (University of Maryland), yorke@ipst.umd.edu |
| November 30: |
Robust transitivity and partial hyperbolicity. Special seminar, 5 : 00 pm |
| Enrique Pujals (IMPA and NYU) |
| December 7: |
Automorphisms of cubic surfaces |
| Bill Goldman (University of Maryland ), wmg@math.umd.edu |
| February 1: |
Shift asymptotic flows, and a theorem of Sell on periodic orbits |
| Joe Auslander (University of Maryland), jna@math.umd.edu |
| February 8: |
Lyapunov exponents: zero or non-zero ? |
| Marcelo Viana (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro) |
| February 22: |
Partial hyperbolicity |
| Misha Brin (UMCP) |
| March 01: |
On the dominated splitting |
| Martin Sambarino (UMCP) |
| March 8: |
The residual entropy of a dynamical system |
| Mike Boyle (University of Maryland, College Park), mmb@math.umd.edu |
| March 15: |
Ergodic properties of linear actions of 2 x 2 matrices |
| Francois Ledrappier (CNRS and Northwestern University ), ledrappi@math.northwestern.edu |
| March 29: |
Statistical properties of weak Gibbs measures |
| Michiko Yuri (Sapporo University ), yuri@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp |
| April 5: |
Equivalence of random walks on a random scenery
|
| Karen Ball (University of Maryland, College Park), ktb@math.umd.edu |
| April 12: |
Tilings associated with some non-Pisot matrices and explicit construction
of Markov partitions
|
| E. Arthur (Robbie) Robinson (George Washington University ), robinson@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu |
| April 26: |
The spectrum of completely positive entropy actions and the Rudolph-Weiss theory |
| Valentyn Golodets (Institute for Low Temperature Physics, Kharkov, Ukraine), golodets@math.umd.edu |
| May 3: |
The spectrum of completely positive entropy actions and the Rudolph-We
iss theory II
|
| Valentyn Golodets (Institute for Low Temperature Physics, Kharkov, Ukr
aine), golodets@math.umd.edu |