Spring 2006 Location: Math 3206 (usually)
Math B0427 (occasional backup)
Time: 2:00
Day: Thursday
Organizers:
Mike Boyle and
Dmitry Dolgopyat
| Sept.1 : | No meeting. | |
| Sept.8 : | Algebraic properties of automorphism groups of countable state Markov shifts | |
| Michael Schraudner (University of Heidelberg) | ||
| Sept. 15 : | Symbolic extension entropy: C^r examples, products and flows | |
| Mike Boyle (University of Maryland) | ||
| Sept. 22 : | Multitowers, Conjugacy and Coding | |
| V.S. Prasad (University of Massachusetts Lowell) | ||
| Sept. 29 : | No meeting. | |
| Oct. 6 : | Existence of hyperbolic Bernoulli flows on any manifolds of dimension > 2 | |
| Yakov Pesin (Penn State University) | ||
| Oct. 13 : | Existence of homoclinic intersections | |
| Christian Bonatti (Dijon) | ||
| Oct. 14-17 | (Fri.-Mon.) : at Penn State: | |
| Conference in honor of Michael Jakobson's sixtieth birthday. | ||
| Oct. 20 : | Quantum ergodicity, dynamical zeta functions and Patterson-Sullivan distributions | |
| Steve Zeldich (John Hopkins) | ||
| Oct. 27 : | Recent progress in geometric methods for instability in Hamiltonian systems | |
| Rafael de la Llave (University of Texas, Austin) | ||
| Nov. 3 : | Maximizing measures, large deviations at temperature zero and eigenvalues of the Laplacian in negative curvature | |
| Artur Lopes (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brasil) | ||
| Nov. 10 : | C^1 genericity of trivial centralizers | |
| Amie Wilkinson (Northwestern) | ||
| Nov. 17 : | No meeting. | |
| Go to the Nov. 17 Applied Dynamics Seminar talk of Lai- Sang Young | ||
| and her Nov. 18 department colloquium talk. | ||
| Nov. 24 : | No meeting (Thanksgiving Day). | |
| Dec. 1 : | Nonlocal Arnold diffusion for the Restricted Planar Circular 3 Body Problem | |
| Vadim Kaloshin (CalTech and Penn State) | ||
| Note unusual location: ROOM 3206 MATH | ||
| Dec. 8 : | Space filling curves and geodesic laminations | |
| Victor Sirvent (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela; and Georgia Institute of Technology) | ||
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*** Standard Spring 2006 Seminar Location: Math 3206 *** |
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| Feb.2 : | Coefficient dynamics | |
| Sir Michael Keane (Wesleyan University, on sabbatical at the University of Maryland) | ||
| Feb. 9 : | Non-compact dynamical systems | |
| Joe Auslander (University of Maryland) | ||
| Feb.16 : | Finitary orbit equivalence | |
| Sir Michael Keane (Wesleyan University, on sabbatical at the University of Maryland) | ||
| Note unusual location: ROOM MATH B0427 | ||
| Feb. 23 : | Weak mixing for Interval Exchange Transformations | |
| Giovanni Forni (Toronto) | ||
| Mar. 2. : | No meeting | |
| Mar. 8. : | Note: unusual day (Wed.) and room (MATH 1313): | |
| Mar. 8: | 2:00 Which Bernoulli measures are good? | |
| Ethan Akin (City College, CUNY) | ||
| Mar. 8: | 3:00 The local variational principle | |
| Eli Glasner (Tel Aviv and City College) | ||
| Mar. 9. : | On the Newhouse phenomenon of infinitely many coexisting sinks | |
| Vadim Kaloshin (CalTech and Penn State) | ||
| Mar. 16 : | Multiple ratio ergodic theorems | |
| Jack Feldman (Berkeley) | ||
| Mar. 18-21 | (Sat-Tues) Spring 2006 Dynamics Conference in honor of Yakov Sinai | |
| Mar. 23 : | No meeting (Spring Break). | |
| March 30 : | Dynamical systems from a functional analytic point of view: a brief overview | |
| Carlangelo Liverani (Tor Vergata). | ||
| April 6 : | Proper affine actions of free groups | |
| Bill Goldman (University of Maryland) | ||
| April 13 : | Non-compact dynamical systems | |
| Dmitry Dolgopyat (University of Maryland) | ||
| April 19 : | Note: unusual time (Wed. at 2:00) and room (MATH 0403) | |
| Divergent averages along squares | ||
| Dan Mauldin (University of North Texas, Denton) | ||
| April 27 : | Arnold diffusion in nearly-flat metrics on tori | |
| Mark Levi (Penn State University). | ||
| May 4 : | Commuting diffeomorphisms and homoclinic classes | |
| Todd Fisher (University of Maryland) | ||
| May 11 : | Finite and sigma-finite invariant measures for S-unimodal maps | |
| Michael Jakobson (University of Maryland) |