DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS and RELATED TOPICS WORKSHOP
October 11-14, 2001
Penn State
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
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| THURSDAY, | OCTOBER 11 | |
| REGENCY BALLROOM, ATHERTON HOTEL | ||
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1:00-1:45
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Registration *Coffee service* | |
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1:45-2:00
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Opening Session | |
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2:00-2:50
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Boris Gurevich (Moscow State University and Penn State) Multifractal analysis of ergodic averages for multidimensional time parameter. | |
| PARALLEL SESSIONS: REGENCY BALLROOM A and B | ||
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3:10-4:00
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A | Todd Young (Ohio State University) Absolutely continuous invariant measures and saddle-node bifurcations |
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3:10-4:00
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B | Alistair
Windsor (Penn State) Mixed spectrum reparameterizations
of linear flow on . |
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4:00-4:30
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*Coffee break* | |
| MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM - REGENCY BALLROOM, ATHERTON HOTEL | ||
| 4:30-5:30 | Michael Shub (IBM) Order out of Chaos? Some recent examples. |
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FRIDAY,
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OCTOBER 12 | |
| PARALLEL SESSIONS: REGENCY BALLROOM A and B | ||
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9:30-10:20
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A | Thomas
Ward (University of East Anglia) A mixing rigidity
result for  actions. |
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9:30-10:20
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B | Nicolai
Haydn (University of Southern California) A
Central Limit Theorem for maps that are mixing. |
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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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A | David Fisher (Yale University) Local rigidity of partially hyperbolic and isometric lattice actions. |
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11:00-11:50
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B | Huyi Hu (University of Southern California) Absolutely continuous invariant measures for non-uniformly expanding maps. |
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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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A | Hee Oh (Princeton University) Hecke operators and equi-distribution of integer points on a family of homogeneous varieties. |
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1:30-2:20
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B | Jarek Kwapisz (Montana State University) Rotation sets and combinatorics of torus diffeomorphisms. |
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2:30-3:00
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A | Rodrigo Perez (SUNY Stony Brook) Finite recurrence patterns in the quadratic family. |
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2:30-3:00
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B | Yitwah Cheung (Northwestern University) Hausdorff dimension of the set of divergent trajectories in a product space. |
| 3:00-3:30 | A | Elizabeth Burslem (Northwestern University) Centralizers of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms. |
| 3:00-3:30 | B | Arek Goetz (San Francisco State University) Examples of rational piecewise rotations with unbounded return times. |
| 3:30-4:00 | *Coffee break* | |
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4:00-4:50
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A | Federico Rodriguez-Hertz (IMPA) Stable ergodicity of some linear automorphisms of the torus. |
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4:00-4:50
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B | Tomasz Downarowicz (University of Maryland) Entropy properties in topological dynamics. |
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9:00-
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Party at the home of Olga and Mark Levi |
| SATURDAY, | OCTOBER 13 | |
| 104, THOMAS BLDG, PENN STATE CAMPUS | ||
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9:30-10:20
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Domokos Szász (Technical University of Budapest) Algebraic methods and the ergodic hypothesis for hard balls. | |
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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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Nandor Simányi (University of Alabama) The ergodicity of typical hard sphere systems in 2D: geometric aspects. | |
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12:00-1:30
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*Lunch break* | |
| PARALLEL SESSIONS: A - 104 THOMAS BLDG, B - 117 THOMAS BLDG | ||
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1:30-2:20
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A | Sergei Tabachnikov (Penn State) Multi-dimensional Birkhoff theorem: periodic trajectories in smooth convex billiards. |
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1:30-2:20
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B | Renato Feres (Washington University) Foliated Liouville theorems. |
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2:30-3:20
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A | Viorel Nitica (West Chester University) Transitivity of euclidean extensions of Anosov diffeomorphisms. |
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2:30-3:20
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B | Richard Brown (American University) The dynamics of surface diffeomorphisms on geometric structure. |
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3:30-4:00
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*Coffee break* | |
| 104, THOMAS BLDG | ||
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4:00-5:50
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OPEN PROBLEMS SESSION | |
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6:30-9:30
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Banquet at Gardens Restaurant, Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center, Research Park |
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SUNDAY,
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OCTOBER 14 | |
| 201, THOMAS BLDG | ||
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9:00-9:50
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Zbigniew Nitecki (Tufts University) Preimage entropy and symbolic dynamics. | |
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10:00-10:50
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Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr) Embedded surfaces with Anosov geodesic flow. | |
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10:50-11:15
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*Coffee break* | |
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11:15-12:05
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Michael Brin (University of Maryland) On the integrabiblity of the central distribution of a partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism. | |
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12:15-1:05
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John Mather (Princeton University) Arnold diffusion. | |
| Following tradition, a short hike will take place for those who wish to partake and weather permitting. |