University of Maryland
Dynamics Seminar Schedule 2003-2004

Location: Math 1311
Time: 2:00
Day: Thursday
Organizers: Mike Boyle and Dmitry Dolgopyat



Current Schedule

September 11: Generic behavior in positive entropy
Dan Rudolph (University of Maryland), djr@math.umd.edu
September 18: Some recent advances in averaging
Yuri Kifer (Hebrew University), kifer@math.huji.ac.il
October 2: Feigenbaum's dynamics as the nonlinearity grows
Genadi Levin (Hebrew University), levin@math.huji.ac.il
October 16: Entropy on shrinking scales, and the entropy theory of symbolic extensions
Mike Boyle (University of Maryland), mmb@math.umd.edu
October 23: NO SEMINAR, because the Semi-annual Workshop in Dynamical Systems is meeting at Penn State
October 30: Critical saddle-node bifurcations and Morse-Smale maps
Brian Hunt (University of Maryland), bhunt@math.umd.edu
November 6: Subshifts of quasi-finite type
Jerome Buzzi (Centre de Mathematiques, Ecole polytechnique ), buzzi@math.polytechnique.fr
November 13: On the homogenization of stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a vanishing viscosity
Elena Kosygina (CUNY), elena_kosygina@baruch.cuny.edu
November 20: Weapons of math construction
Joe Auslander (University of Maryland), jna@math.umd.edu
December 4: Critical rates in nonconventional ergodic averaging
Anthony Quas (University of Memphis), aquas@memphis.edu
December 8: Spectrum and holonomy. This is a joint dynamics/geometry-topology seminar.
Werner Ballmann (Bonn University)
December 11: Weak integrability of invariant distributions
Misha Brin (University of Maryland), mib@math.umd.edu
January 29: Almost isomorphism of countable state Markov shifts
Mike Boyle (University of Maryland), mmb@math.umd.edu
Feb. 5,10,12: Multiple Ergodic Averages and Nilpotent Groups
Unusual time and place: 3206 MATH, 2:00-3:15 P.M.
Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University)
Feb. 19: NonBernoulli K Actions of Discrete Amenable Groups
Dan Rudolph (University of Maryland), djr@math.umd.edu
February 26: Recurrence, ergodicity and their typicality in (aperiodic) Lorentz gases
Marco Lenci (Stephens Institute of Technology), mlenci@math.stevens.edu
March 4: Variations on Anosov Theorem
Dmitry Dolgopyat (University of Maryland), dmitry@math.umd.edu
March 11:
Dynamical rigidity for Z^d-actions
Bruce Kitchens (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
SAT. Mar. 20
-TUES. Mar. 23
Maryland-Penn State Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics
April 1: Realizing model set dynamical systems with a given spectrum
E. A. Robinson (George Washington University)
April 8: Banach spaces adapted to Anosov systems
Carlangelo Liverani (Tor Vergata), liverani@mat.uniroma2.it
April 13: Towards a constructive approach to Lyapunov exponents
Unusual day (2pm in 1311 as usual)
Ilya Goldsheid (University of London), I.Goldsheid@qmul.ac.uk
April 22: Regularity of transport coefficients for Lorenz gas
Dmitry Dolgopyat (University of Maryland), dmitry@math.umd.edu
April 29: Variation inequalities in ergodic theory
Roger Jones (DePaul University)
May 6: The mathematical work of Ken Berg
Unusual room: 3206 MATH
Joe Auslander (University of Maryland)

Previous Schedules

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