University of Maryland
Dynamics Seminar Schedule, 2002-03

Location: Math 1311
Time: 2:00
Day: Thursday
Organizer: Joe Auslander/Ken Berg



Current Schedule

September 12: Relative mixing and orbit equivalence
Dan Rudolph (University of Maryland), Department of Mathematics, 20742, djr@math.umd.edu
September 19: Relative Mixing and Orbit Equivalence (II)
Dan Rudolph (University of Maryland), College Park, MD, djr@umd.edu
September 26: When are random graphs connected?
Steve Kalikow (University of Maryland), College Park, MD, skalikow@math.umd.edu
October 01: Self-similarity of fractal measures and measure-valued stationary processes This talk is at the Statistics Seminar, in Math1313
Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University visiting Univ. of Maryland), hillel@math.umd.edu
October 3: What's New in the Theory of Non-Conventional Ergodic Averages?
Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University), Jerusalem, Israel, harry@math.huji.ac.il
October 10: Flow equivalence of skew-products of irreducible shifts of finite type
Mike Sullivan (University of Maryland), Department of Mathematics, College Park, MD, 20742, sullivan@math.umd.edu
October 17: No Meeting
No Meeting
October 24: Partial hyperbolicity in dimension three (Part I)
Misha Brin (College Park), mib@math.umd.edu
October 31: Partial Hyperbolicity in dimension three (Part II)
Misha Brin (College Park), mib@math.umd.edu
November 7: Connected Random Graphs Not neccesary to have attended any previous talk.
Steve Kalikow (College Park), 72604.3435@compuserve.com
December 12: A Linking Homorphism for Minimal Sets.
Mike Sullivan (Southern illinois and Univ of MD)
January 30: Dynamics on zero dimensional spaces Rescheduled from December snow day
Joe Auslander (College Park), jna@math.umd.edu
March 6: Proper actions, geodesic flows and Riemann surfaces
William M. Goldman (University of Maryland, College Park), College Park, MD, 20742, wmg@math.umd.edu
March 13: Sofic shifts from signed matrices
Jim Wiseman (Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, Swarthmore), Swarthmore, PA 19081, jwisema1@swarthmore.edu
April 24: Complexity and entropy for self-affine tiling systems
R. E. Robinson (George Washington University), robinson@gwu.edu
May 1: TBA POSTPONED TO NEXT WEEK
Sam Lightwood (George Washington University)
May 8: Embedding Finite Extensions of Nonperiodic Subshifts into the Domino Shift: Bubbles, Foam and Almost Square Mixing. Previously scheduled for May 1
Sam Lightwood (Georege Wahingtom University), sjlight@gwu.edu

Previous Schedules

Academic Year 1998-1999 Academic Year 2000-2001
Academic Year 1999-2000 Academic Year 2001-2002