CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF MICHAEL JAKOBSON'S 60TH BIRTHDAY
October
14-17, 2005
114 McAllister Building, Mathematics Department,
Penn State, University Park
Campus
SCHEDULE
OF TALKS
Click on the name to see Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2005
9:30-10:15
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Registration
* Coffee service*
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10:15-10:30 |
Welcome |
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10:30-11:30 |
Stefano Luzzatto, 25 years on: a quantitative, computer-assisted, version of Jakobson's Theorem |
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11:30-2:00 |
*Lunch
break* |
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2:00-3:00 |
Samuel Senti,
Measures of maximal entropy for a class of non-uniformly
hyperbolic 2-dimensional maps. |
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3:15-4:15 |
Sebastian van Strien, Solution of the real Fatou conjecture: from Jakobson to the present day |
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4:15-4:45 |
*Coffee break* |
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4:45-5:45 |
Michael Benediks,
Non-uniformly hyperbolic attractors: invertible and non-invertible
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
9:30-10:30
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Sheldon Newhouse,
Dissipative surface dynamics: critical points vs. induced maps |
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10:30-11:00 |
* Coffee break* |
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11:00-12:00 |
Masato Tsujii,
Decay of correlations in expanding semi-flows. |
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12:00-2:00 |
*Lunch break* |
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2:00-3:00 |
Jose Alves,
Topological structure of partially hyperbolic sets with positive volume
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3:15-4:15 |
Lai-Sang Young,
Detecting strange attractors |
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4:15-4:45 |
* Coffee break* |
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4:45-5:45 |
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8:30 |
Party at the Katoks in honor of Michael Jakobson |
Sunday, October 16, 2005
9:30-10:30 |
Leonid Bunimovich, Dynamical systems and Benford's law |
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10:30-11:00 |
* Coffee break* |
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11:00-12:00 |
Pavel Bleher,
Exact solution of the six-vertex model with
domain wall boundary condition |
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12:00-2:00 |
*Lunch break* |
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2:00-3:00 |
Francois Ledrappier, Distributions of horocycles on abelian covers |
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3:15-4:15 |
Michal Misiurewicz, Invariant measures for random iterations of affine maps |
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4:15-4:45 |
* Coffee break*
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4:45-5:45 |
Gregory Margulis, Discrete groups of affine transformations |
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7:00 |
Banquet in honor of Michael Jakobson |
Monday, October 17, 2005
9:30-10:30 |
Greg Swiatek,
Dynamics of Meromorphic Misiurewicz Maps.
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10:30-11:00 |
* Coffee break* |
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11:00-12:00 |
Jacek Graczyk, Negative Schwarzian and cohomological inequality |
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12:00-2:00 |
*Lunch break* |
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2:00-3:00 |
Yulij Ilyashenko,
Skew products and nonremovable Lyapunov exponents
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3:15-4:15 |
Marcelo Viana,
TBA |