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

Registration                                        * Coffee service*

10:15-10:30

Welcome

10:30-11:30

Stefano Luzzatto, 25 years on: a quantitative, computer-assisted, version of Jakobson's Theorem

11:30-2:00

*Lunch break*

 

2:00-3:00

Samuel Senti, Measures of maximal entropy for a class of non-uniformly hyperbolic 2-dimensional maps.

3:15-4:15

Sebastian van Strien, Solution of the real Fatou conjecture: from Jakobson to the present day

4:15-4:45

*Coffee break*

4:45-5:45

Michael Benediks, Non-uniformly hyperbolic attractors: invertible and non-invertible

 

Saturday, October 15, 2005                                      

 

9:30-10:30

Sheldon Newhouse, Dissipative surface dynamics: critical points vs. induced maps

10:30-11:00

* Coffee break*

11:00-12:00

Masato Tsujii, Decay of correlations in expanding semi-flows.

12:00-2:00

*Lunch break*

 

2:00-3:00

Jose Alves, Topological structure of partially hyperbolic sets with positive volume

3:15-4:15

Lai-Sang Young, Detecting strange attractors

4:15-4:45

* Coffee break*

4:45-5:45

Discussion of current topics and open problems

 

 

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

10:30-11:00

* Coffee break*

11:00-12:00

Pavel Bleher, Exact solution of the six-vertex model with domain wall boundary condition

12:00-2:00

*Lunch break*

 

2:00-3:00

Francois Ledrappier, Distributions of horocycles on abelian covers

3:15-4:15

Michal Misiurewicz, Invariant measures for random iterations of affine maps

4:15-4:45

* Coffee break*

4:45-5:45

Gregory Margulis, Discrete groups of affine transformations

 

 

7:00

Banquet in honor of Michael Jakobson

 

 

Monday, October 17, 2005                                  

 

9:30-10:30

Greg Swiatek, Dynamics of Meromorphic Misiurewicz Maps.

10:30-11:00

* Coffee break*

11:00-12:00

Jacek Graczyk, Negative Schwarzian and cohomological inequality

12:00-2:00

*Lunch break*

 

2:00-3:00

Yulij Ilyashenko, Skew products and nonremovable Lyapunov exponents

3:15-4:15

Marcelo Viana, TBA