DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS and RELATED TOPICS WORKSHOP

October 11-14, 2001

Penn State

SCHEDULE OF TALKS
Click on the name of a speaker to see the Abstract


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11
REGENCY BALLROOM, ATHERTON HOTEL
1:00-1:45
Registration        *Coffee service*
1:45-2:00
Opening Session
2:00-2:50
Boris Gurevich  (Moscow State University and Penn State) Multifractal analysis of ergodic averages for multidimensional time parameter.
  PARALLEL SESSIONS: REGENCY BALLROOM A and B
3:10-4:00
A Todd Young   (Ohio State University)  Absolutely continuous invariant measures and saddle-node bifurcations
3:10-4:00
B Alistair Windsor  (Penn State)  Mixed spectrum reparameterizations of linear flow on.
4:00-4:30
                          *Coffee break*
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM - REGENCY BALLROOM, ATHERTON HOTEL
4:30-5:30 Michael Shub  (IBM)  Order out of Chaos?  Some recent examples.

FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 12
PARALLEL SESSIONS: REGENCY BALLROOM A and B
9:30-10:20
A Thomas Ward  (University of East Anglia)  A mixing rigidity result for actions.
9:30-10:20
B Nicolai Haydn   (University of Southern  California) A Central Limit Theorem for maps that aremixing.
10:30-11:00
                          *Coffee break*
11:00-11:50
A David Fisher   (Yale University)  Local rigidity of partially hyperbolic and isometric lattice actions.
11:00-11:50
B Huyi Hu   (University of Southern California)  Absolutely continuous invariant measures for non-uniformly expanding maps.
12:00-1:30
                          *Lunch break*
1:30-2:20
A Hee Oh   (Princeton University)  Hecke operators and equi-distribution of integer points on a family of homogeneous varieties.
1:30-2:20
B Jarek Kwapisz   (Montana State University)  Rotation sets and combinatorics of torus diffeomorphisms.
2:30-3:00
A Rodrigo Perez (SUNY Stony Brook) Finite recurrence patterns in the quadratic family.
2:30-3:00
B Yitwah Cheung   (Northwestern University)  Hausdorff dimension of the set of divergent trajectories in a product space.
3:00-3:30 A Elizabeth Burslem    (Northwestern University)  Centralizers of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms.
3:00-3:30 B Arek Goetz   (San Francisco State University)  Examples of rational piecewise rotations with unbounded return times.
3:30-4:00                           *Coffee break*
4:00-4:50
A Federico Rodriguez-Hertz  (IMPA)  Stable ergodicity of some linear automorphisms of the torus.
4:00-4:50
B Tomasz Downarowicz   (University of Maryland)  Entropy properties in topological dynamics.
9:00- 
Party at the home of Olga and Mark Levi

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13
104, THOMAS BLDG, PENN STATE CAMPUS
9:30-10:20
Domokos Szász  (Technical University of Budapest) Algebraic methods and the ergodic hypothesis for hard balls.
10:30-11:00
                          *Coffee break*
11:00-11:50
Nandor Simányi   (University of Alabama)  The ergodicity of typical hard sphere systems in 2D: geometric aspects.
12:00-1:30
                          *Lunch break*
PARALLEL SESSIONS: A - 104 THOMAS BLDG,  B - 117 THOMAS BLDG
1:30-2:20
A Sergei Tabachnikov  (Penn State)  Multi-dimensional Birkhoff theorem: periodic trajectories in  smooth convex billiards.
1:30-2:20
B Renato Feres  (Washington University)   Foliated Liouville theorems.
2:30-3:20
A Viorel Nitica  (West Chester University)  Transitivity of euclidean extensions of Anosov diffeomorphisms.
2:30-3:20
B Richard Brown  (American University)  The dynamics of surface diffeomorphisms on geometric structure.
3:30-4:00
                         *Coffee break*
104, THOMAS BLDG
4:00-5:50
OPEN PROBLEMS SESSION
6:30-9:30
Banquet at Gardens Restaurant, Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center, Research Park


SUNDAY,
OCTOBER 14
201, THOMAS BLDG
9:00-9:50
Zbigniew Nitecki   (Tufts University)  Preimage entropy and symbolic dynamics.
10:00-10:50
Victor Donnay  (Bryn Mawr)  Embedded surfaces with Anosov geodesic flow.
10:50-11:15
                          *Coffee break*
11:15-12:05
Michael Brin  (University of Maryland)  On the integrabiblity of the central distribution of a partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism.
12:15-1:05
John Mather  (Princeton University)  Arnold diffusion.


Following tradition, a short hike will take place for those who wish to partake and weather permitting.