DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS and RELATED TOPICS WORKSHOP

 

October 12-15, 2002

 

Thomas Building, Penn State, University Park Campus

 

SCHEDULE OF TALKS

 

Click on the name to see Abstract

 

SATURDAY

OCTOBER 12

 

ROOM 104

9:00-9:45

Registration          *Coffee service*

9:45-10:00

Opening Session

10:00-11:00

P. Eberlein, Structure of 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras of type (p,q)

 

 

11:00-12:00

D. Rudolph, Relative mixing, isometric extensions and orbit equivalence

12:00-1:30

                               *Lunch break*

1:30-2:20

Y. Kifer, Theorems and problems in fully coupled averaging

 

PARALLEL SESSIONS:  ROOMS 104 and 125

2:30-3:00

104 V. Sadovskaya, On local and global rigidity of uniformly quasiconformal Anosov systems

2:30-3:00

125 S. Luzzatto, Markov structures and decay of correlations for non-uniformly expanding dynamical systems

3:00-3:30

104 I. Ugarcovici, On admissible geometric codes for geodesics on modular surfaces

3:00-3:30

125 S. Hruska, Constructing hyperbolic structures for Henon maps

3:30-4:00

                               *Coffee break*

4:00-4:50

104 A. Torok, Stable ergodicity of smooth compact Lie group extensions of hyperbolic basic sets

4:00-4:50

125 V. Zharnitsky, Billiards and closed  orbits in subriemannian geometry

 

SUNDAY

OCTOBER 13

 

ROOM 104

9:00-9:50

J. Smillie,  Complex dynamics in two dimensions

10:00-10:50

R. Krikorian, Differentiable rigidity and Lyapunov exponents: some examples

10:50-11:20

                               *Coffee break*

 

PARALLEL SESSIONS:  ROOMS 104 and 125

11:20-12:10

104 D. Fisher, Continuous and smooth orbit equivalence rigidity

11:20-12:10

125 B. Fayad, Elliptic constructions and nonuniform hyperbolicity

12:10-1:30

                               *Lunch break*

1:30-2:20

104 E. Glasner, Classifying dynamical systems by their recurrence properties

1:30-2:20

125 M. Schmoll, On finite blocking properties for geodesics on translation surfaces

2:30-3:00

104 K. Parwani, Monotone periodic orbits on surfaces

2:30-3:00

125 M. Sullivan, Flow equivalence of skew-products of irreducible shifts of finite type

3:00-3:30

104 W.-C. Cheng, Relations among conditional entropy, topological entropy and pointwise preimage entropy

3:00-3:30

125 A. Miller, Characterizations of regular almost periodicity in compact minimal abelian flows

3:30-4:00

                               *Coffee break*

4:00-4:50

104 L. Koralov, Homogenization and transport by random flows

4:00-4:50

125 B. Kalinin, Rigidity properties of higher rank abelian actions

 

 

8:00

PARTY

 

MONDAY

OCTOBER 14

 

ROOM 104

9:00-9:50

 B. Weiss, Recent results in the theory of actions of amenable groups

10:00-10:50

 H. Hofer, Holomorphic curves in low-dimensional dynamics                        

10:50-11:20

                              *Coffee break*

11:20-12:10

 D. Dolgopyat, Stable ergodicity of random rotations

12:10-1:30

                               *Lunch break*

1:30-2:20

 P. Le Calvez, A foliated equivariant version of

Brouwer's Plane Translation theorem and some applications

2:30-3:20

 F. Ledrappier, Distribution results for cocompact groups in SL(2,Qp).

3:30-4:00

                              *Coffee break*

4:00-4:50

 J. Yorke, Learning about reality from observation

 

 

6:00

BANQUET in PANDA INN restaurant

 

TUESDAY

OCTOBER 15

 

ROOM 104

9:00-9:50

J. Mather, Arnold diffusion

10:00-10:50

A. Fathi, The interface of PDE's and Lagrangian dynamics: existence of  C1 subsolutions

10:50-11:20

                              *Coffee break*

11:20-12:10

S. Marmi, Quasianalytic solutions of cohomological equations

12:20-1:10

A. Chenciner, Continuing the *Eight *  in 3-space: Marchal's  P12   family

 

 

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