DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS and RELATED TOPICS WORKSHOP
October 26-29, 2000
Penn State
Atherton Hotel
State College, PA
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
| THURSDAY, | OCTOBER 26 | |
| REGENCY BALLROOM | ||
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8:30-9:15
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Registration | |
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9:15-9:30
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Opening Session | |
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9:30-10:20
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Leonid Polterovich (Tel-Aviv University), Kick stability in groups and dynamical systems | |
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10:30-11:00
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Coffee break | |
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11:00-11:50
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Joerg Schmeling (Free University, Berlin), Diophantine numbers, dimension and Denjoy maps | |
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12:00-2:00
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Lunch break | |
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2:00-2:50
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James Yorke (IPST, University of Maryland), Smooth embedding of non-smooth sets | |
| PARALLEL SESSIONS: REGENCY BALLROOM A and B | ||
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3:00-3:50
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A | Gregory Galperin (Eastern Illinois University), Illumination of a convex polygon by a billiard search light |
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3:00-3:50
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B | Brian Hunt (University of Maryland), A Robust Example (?) of Strange Nonchaotic Dynamics |
| 4:00-4:30 | Coffee break | |
| 4:30-5:00 | A | Chris Connell (University of Illinois at Chicago), Lyapunov exponent rigidity for nonpositively curved manifolds |
| 4:30-5:00 | B | Peter Veerman (CUNY-Queens College and Portland State University), Furstenberg's conjecture |
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FRIDAY
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OCTOBER 27 | |
| REGENCY BALLROOM | ||
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9:30-10:20
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Eric Bedford (Indiana University at Bloomington), Complex dynamics and real horseshoes, I | |
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10:30-11:00
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Coffee break | |
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11:00-11:50
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John Smillie (Cornell University), Complex dynamics and real horseshoes, II | |
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12:00-2:00
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Lunch break | |
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2:00-2:50
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Howard Masur (University of Illinois at Chicago), Asymptotic formulas for the number of saddle connections on flat surfaces | |
| PARALLEL SESSIONS: REGENCY BALLROOM A and B | ||
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3:00-3:30
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A | Suzanne Lynch Hruska (Cornell University), Hyperbolicity in the complex Henon family |
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3:00-3:30
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B | Enrico Valdinoci (Univ. of Texas, Austin), Speed of Arnold diffusion |
| 3:30-4:00 | A | Robert Yuncken (Penn State), Regular tessellations of hyperbolic space by fundamental regions of a Fuchsian group |
| 3:30-4:00 | B | Alex Haro (Univ. of Texas, Austin), Invariant manifolds in quasi-periodic maps: rigorous results and computations (joint work with Rafael de la Llave) |
| 4:00-4:30 | Coffee break | |
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4:30-5:20
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A | Elon Lindenstrauss (IAS), Bernoulli convolutions and a question of Sinai on attainable entropies (joint work with Yuval Peres and Wilhelm Schlag) |
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4:30-5:20
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B | Nicolai Haydn (University of Southern California), Distribution of return times for dynamical systems |
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6:30-9:00
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Banquet at Gardens Restaurant, Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center, Research Park |
| SATURDAY | OCTOBER 28 | |
| REGENCY BALLROOM | ||
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9:30-10:20
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Steve Hurder (University of Illinois at Chicago), Dynamics of group actions on the circle | |
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10:30-11:00
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Coffee break | |
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11:00-11:50
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Yulij Ilyashenko (Cornell University), Upper estimates of the number of limit cycles for Abel and Lienard equations (partly based on a joint work with A. Panov) | |
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12:00-1:30
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Lunch break | |
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1:30-2:20
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Amie Wilkinson (Northwestern University), C1 density of stable accessibility | |
| PARALLEL SESSIONS: REGENCY BALLROOM A and B | ||
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2:30-3:00
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A | Roman Muchnik (Yale University), Semigroup actions of GL(n,Z) on Tn |
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2:30-3:00
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B | Martin Sambarino (University of Maryland), On surface diffeomorphisms |
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3:00-3:30
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A | Jose Alves (University of Maryland and University of Porto, Portugal), Nonuniformly expanding dynamics: Stability from a probabilistic viewpoint |
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3:00-3:30
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B | Alexander Leibman (Ohio State University), Polynomial unitary actions of nilpotent groups |
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3:30-4:00
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Coffee break | |
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4:00-4:50
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A | Viorel Nitica (University of Notre Dame), Stable topological transitivity of skew-products over hyperbolic sets |
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4:00-4:50
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B | Enrique Pujals (Catolic University of Rio de Janeiro and Courant Institute), Partially hyperbolic systems and robust transitivity |
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8:00-11:00
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Party at the home of Svetlana and Anatole Katok |
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SUNDAY
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OCTOBER 29 | |
| REGENCY BALLROOM | ||
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9:00-9:50
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John Mather (Princeton University), Differentiability of the minimal average action in one higher dimension | |
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10:00-10:50
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Keith Burns (Northwestern University), Magnetic Flows (joint work with Gabriel Paternain) | |
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11:00-11:30
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Coffee break | |
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11:30-12:20
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Francois Ledrappier (Northwestern University and CNRS), Linear actions of 2 x 2 complex matrices | |
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| Following tradition, a short hike will take place for those who wish to partake and weather permitting. |