The Dynamical Systems Seminar for the mathematics department at the University of Maryland meets on
Thursdays from 3:30 to 5:30 PM in room 1311 of the Mathematics
Building. In spring 2009, the organizer is Paul Wright.
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Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, University of Maryland,
April 4-7, 2009.
| Date | Name |
Title/Abstract |
| February 5 | NO SEMINAR
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| February 12 | Yakov Pesin (Penn State/visiting UM)
| Thermodynamics of towers and the liftability problem |
| February 19 | Mike Todd (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto)
| Smooth pressure and Lyapunov spectra for unimodal maps |
| February 26 | Van Cyr (Penn State)
| Obstructions to the Existence of Equilibrium Measures for Countable Markov Shifts |
| March 3 in room 1308 NOTE THE SPECIAL DAY (Tuesday) AND LOCATION, AND THAT THERE ARE TWO SEMINARS THIS WEEK | Federico Rodriguez Hertz (IMERL)
| Invarianat Tori with Anosov Dynamics in Dimension Three |
| March 5 NOTE THAT THIS IS THE SECOND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR THIS WEEK |
Joseph Auslander (UM)
| Generalized recurrence and
compactifications of closed relations |
| March 12 | Michael Hochman (Princeton)
| Local Entropy, Hausdorff Dimension, and Marstrand's Theorem |
| March 19 | NO SEMINAR
| Spring Break |
| March 26 | Nikolai Chernov (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
| Statistical Properties of Hyperbolic Systems with Singularities |
| March 31 in room 1308 NOTE THE SPECIAL DAY (Tuesday) AND LOCATION, AND THAT THERE ARE TWO SEMINARS THIS WEEK | Corinna Ulcigrai (University of Bristol)
| Beyond Sturmian sequences: symbolic sequences in regular 2n-gons |
| April 2 NOTE THAT THIS IS THE SECOND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR THIS WEEK | Rick Moeckel (University of Minnesota)
| Tropical celestial mechanics |
| April 4-7 |
Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics
| University of Maryland |
| April 9 | Alejandra Rodriguez Hertz (IMERL)
| The use of blenders in smooth ergodic theory - a case study |
| April 16 | Jerome Buzzi (Laboratoire de Mathematique d'Orsay, C.N.R.S. & Universite Paris-Sud)
| (Non-)existence of measures of maximal entropy |
| April 23 | Dong Li (Institute for Advanced Study)
| Decay of Fourier modes for 2D Navier-Stokes
systems with special boundary conditions |
| April 30 | Kening Lu (BYU)
| Approximately invariant manifolds and global dynamics of spike states |
| May 7 | Rafael de la Llave (UT Austin)
| Tori on the verge of an analyticity breakdown |
| Date | Name |
Title/Abstract |
| September 4 | NO SEMINAR
| tba |
| September 11 | Anton Gorodetski (UC Irvine)
| Hyperbolicity of the trace map and properties of the Fibonacci Hamiltonian |
| September 18 | James Yorke (UM)
| Cascades of period doubling |
| September 25 | Nándor Simányi (University of Alabama Birmingham)
| The conditional proof of the Boltzmann-Sinai hypothesis |
| October 2 | NO SEMINAR
| tba |
| October 9 | Yong Zheng (UM)
| Arnold diffusion in the planar five body problem |
| October 16 | Karl Petersen (UNC)
| Adic dynamical systems coming from reinforced random walks |
| October 23 | NO SEMINAR
| Workshop in Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, Penn State University |
| October 30 | Yulij Ilyashenko (Cornell)
| ATTRACTORS AND LIFE IN THE NON-FUBINIAN WORLD |
| November 6 | David Damanik (Rice)
| Schrödinger cocycles over the skew-shift |
| November 13 | Steve Simpson (Penn State)
| Degrees of unsolvability of 2-dimensional subshifts of finite type |
| November 20 | John Mather (Princeton)
| Mechanical Systems on the 2-Torus: Extension of Results of Carneiro and Application to Arnold Diffusion in Two and a Half and Three Degrees of Freedom |
| November 27 | NO SEMINAR
| Thanksgiving break |
| December 4 | Marco Martens (SUNY Stony Brook)
| Hénon renormalization |
| December 11 | tba
| tba |
