Semi-annual Workshop in Dynamical Systems and Related Topics
DYNAMICS AT THE CROSSROADS OF MODERN MATHEMATICS:
RECENT PROGRESS AND PERSPECTIVES.
November
2-5, 2006
114 McAllister Building, Mathematics Department,
Penn State, University Park
Campus
SCHEDULE
OF TALKS
Thursday, November 2, 2006
9:00-10:00
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Registration
* Coffee service*
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10:00-10:15 |
Welcome |
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10:15-11:05 |
Rostislav Grigorchuk, Amenability, Liouville property and ergodicity of boundary actions.
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11:15-12:05 |
Mark
Pollicott, A dynamical analogue of Bauer's Theorem.
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12:05-1:30 |
*Lunch
break* |
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1:30-2:00 |
Corinna Ulcigrai,
Mixing for flows over interval exchange transformations.
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2:05-2:35 |
Svetlana Krat,
On surfaces with small variation of Gaussian curvature.
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2:40-3:30 |
Nikita Netsvetaev, On the topological structure of complex projective varieties with simple singularities. |
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3:30-4:00 |
*Departmental Tea* |
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4:00-5:00 |
Department of Mathematics Colloquium |
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5:15-6:05 |
Jeremy Wang, An extension procedure for manifolds-with-boundary. |
Friday, November 3, 2006
9:30-10:20
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Amie Wilkinson,
Asymmetrical diffeomorphisms. |
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10:30-11:20 |
Alistair Windsor,
Constructions in elliptic dynamics: recent results and open problems. |
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11:20-11:45 |
* Coffee break* |
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11:45-12:35 |
Boris Kalinin,
Smooth rigidity of higher rank abelian actions. |
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12:45-2:30 |
*Lunch break* |
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2:30-3:20 |
Jens Marklof,
The distribution of visible lattice points and collision times in the periodic Lorentz gas.
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3:30-4:00 |
Roman Schubert,
Mixing and equidistribution in wave propagation. |
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4:00-4:30 |
* Coffee break* |
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4:30-5:20 |
Dmitry Dolgopyat,
Recurrence properties of Lorenz process. |
Saturday, November 4, 2006
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9:30-10:20 |
Dmitry Kleinbock, Expanding translates of horospheres and their applications to number theory. |
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10:30-11:20 |
Gerhard Knieper, Hyperbolic dynamics and Riemannian geometry. |
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11:20-11:45 |
* Coffee break* |
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11:45-12:35 |
Leonid Polterovich,
Between symplectic dynamics and symplectic topology. |
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12:35-2:30 |
*Lunch break* |
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2:30-3:20 |
Bruce Kleiner, BiLipschitz embedding in Banach spaces. |
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3:30-4:20 |
Christina Sormani, The topology of complete spaces with nonnegative Ricci curvature. |
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4:20-4:45 |
* Coffee break*
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4:45-5:35 |
Yuri Burago, Bi-Lipschitz equivalence of Alexandrov surfaces and global Chebyshev coordinates. |
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7:30 |
Voice Recital by Danya Katok, mezzo-soprano, |
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9:00 |
Party at the Katoks (food, desserts, and drinks will be served) |
Sunday, November 5, 2006
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9:00-9:30 |
David Ralston,
An obesity epidemic in dynamical systems.
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9:35-10:05 |
Mark Demers, Stability of statistical properties for piecewise hyperbolic maps. |
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10:10-10:40 |
Paul Wright,
Some rigorous results for a simple model of the adiabatic piston.
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10:40-11:10 |
* Coffee break* |
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11:15-11:45 |
Boris Begun,
Bernoulli-type behavior in random dynamical systems.
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11:50-12:20 |
Todd Fisher,
Superexponential growth of the number of periodic orbits
for non-hyperbolic homoclinic classes.
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12:20-1:40 |
*Lunch break* |
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1:40-2:10 |
Yuki Yayama,
On the uniqueness of measures of full Hausdorff dimension for some compact invariant sets.
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2:15-2:45 |
Anish Ghosh,
SL(2, k)-ergodic invariant measures in positive
characteristic.
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2:50-3:20 |
Meera Mainkar,
Anosov automorphisms on nilmanifolds. |