University of Maryland
Dynamics Seminar Schedule

Location: Math 1310
Time: 2:30
Day: Thursday
Organizer: Mike Boyle and Misha Brin



Current Schedule

September 10: Some Ramsey-theoretic results for amenable groups
Randall McCutcheon (University of Maryland ), randall@math.umd.edu
September 17: Equivalence relations and the capturing property in topological dynamics
Joe Auslander (University of Maryland), jna@math.umd.edu
September 24: TBA (dynamics seminar will not meet)
Conference in honor of S.Novikov
October 1: Cohomology of amenable foliations
Alessandra Iozzi (University of Maryland), iozzi@math.umd.edu
October 8: TBA (dynamics seminar will not meet)
MD-PSU Dynamics Workshop at Penn State Oct.8-11
October 15: Topological Dynamics on Moduli Spaces
Joseph Previte (Pennsylvania State University), jpp@vortex.bd.psu.edu
October 22: On the ergodicity of the geodesic flow on surfaces of nonpositive curvature. Joint meeting with the Geometry - Topology seminar.
Michael Brin (University of Maryland), College Park, Maryland, mib@math.umd.edu
October 29: Some New Results About Continued Fractions Via Multifractal Analysis of the Gauss Map
Howie Weiss (Pennsylvania State University & IPST ), hnw1@glue.umd.edu
November 5: The Julia set of the Feigenbaum quadratic polynomial
Jun Hu (IPST and Brooklyn College of CUNY ), hujun@glue.umd.edu
November 12: Convergence of Convolution Powers
Joe Rosenblatt (University of Illinois, Urbana), jrsnbltt@math.uiuc.edu
November 13: Dynamics of p-adic Rational Maps [Joint meeting of Algebra-Number Theory & Dynamics Seminars: Friday 2pm, Room TBA]
Rob Benedetto (University of Rochester ), benny@math.rochester.edu
November 19: Geometry and physics of averaging with applications
Mark Levi (Pennsylvania State University), levi@math.psu.edu
December 10: Ergodic properties of some linear actions
Francois Ledrappier (Ecole Polytechnique), Palaiseau, France, ledrappi@math.polytechnique.fr
January 1: NOTE: IN SPRING SEMESTER 1999,
USUAL START TIME IS 2:30
January 14: Random Transformations and the Structure of Group Actions (Lecture 1 of series) 2PM, ROOM 3206
Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University )
January 14: Random Transformations and the Structure of Group Actions (Lecture 1 of series) 2PM, ROOM 3206
Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University )
January 19: Random Transformations and the Structure of Group Actions (Lectures 2-3 of series) 2-4 PM, ROOM 3206
Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University )
January 28: Ergodicity of the geodesic flow: a complete proof.
Michael Brin (University of Maryland), College Park, Md, mib@math.umd.edu
February 2: Random transformations and the structure of group actions (Lecture 4 of series) 230PM,ROOM 3206
Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University )
February 4: Mean dimension and some applications
Elon Lindenstrauss (Hebrew University), elon@math.huji.ac.il
February 9: Random Transformations and the Structure of Group Actions (Lecture 5 of series) 230 PM, ROOM 3206
Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University )
February 11: Ergodic Theory and the Geometry of Fractals ROOM 3206
Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University )
February 16: Random Transformations and the Structure of Group Actions (last lecture of series) ROOM 3206
Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University )
February 18: An onto endomorphism of a subshift need not be one-one
Dan Rudolph (University of Maryland, College Park ), djr@math.umd.edu
February 25: Rational maps are one sided Bernoulli
Chris Hoffman (University of Maryland, College Park ), hoffman@math.umd.edu
March 4: An odd Furstenberg-Szemeredi Theorem
Bernard Host (Universite' Marne-la-Valle'e ), host@math.univ-mlv.fr
March 11: Quasi-isometric and bi-Lipschitz equivalences Joint meeting with geometry/topology seminar
Dmitri Burago (Pennsylvania State University), State College, PA, burago@math.psu.edu
March 18: Homoclinic Points and Markov Partitions for Algebraic Z^d-Actions
Doug Lind (University of Washington), lind@math.washington.edu
March 20: ...
MD-PSU Dynamics Workshop at College Park (Sat-Tues, March 20-23, 1999)
April 1: Expansive invertible onesided cellular automata
Mike Boyle (University of Maryland, College Park ), mmb@math.umd.edu
April 8: Calculating metric entropy for interval maps
Mark Pollicott (University of Manchester), mp@ma.man.ac.uk
April 15: Dimension and product structure of hyperbolic measures
Yasha Pesin (Penn State Univ), State College, PA, pesin@math.psu.edu
April 22: Weak Bernoulli Implies Eventually Agree
Steve Kalikow, 72604.3435@compuserve.com
April 29: Optimal Orbits of Hyperbolic Systems
Brian Hunt (UMCP ), bhunt@math
May 6: Explosions in dynamics Special place: Rm 3206 (colloquium room)
Jim Yorke (University of Maryland), College Park, yorke@ipst.umd.edu
June 21: On Stability Islands in the Domain of Separatrix Crossings Time: 1:30 pm; Place: 1311
Anatole Neishtadt (Moscow Space Research Institute)