DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS and RELATED TOPICS WORKSHOP
October 12-15, 2002
Thomas Building, Penn State, University Park Campus
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
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October 12-15, 2002
Thomas Building, Penn State, University Park Campus
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
Click on the name to see Abstract
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 ROOM 104
| 9:00-9:45 | Registration *Coffee service* |
| 9:45-10:00 | Opening Session |
| 10:00-11:00 | P. Eberlein, Structure of 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras of type (p,q). |
| 11:00-12:00 | D. Rudolph, Relative mixing. |
| 12:00-1:30 | *Lunch break* |
| 1:30-2:20 | Y. Kifer, Theorems and problems in fully coupled averaging. |
| PARALLEL SESSIONS: ROOMS 104 and 125 | |
| 2:30-3:00 | 104 V. Sadovskaya, On local and global rigidity of uniformly quasiconformal Anosov systems. |
| 2:30-3:00 | 125 S. Luzzatto, Markov structures and decay of correlations for non-uniformly expanding dynamical systems. |
| 3:00-3:30 | 104 I. Ugarcovici, On admissible geometric codes for geodesics on modular surfaces. |
| 3:00-3:30 | 125 S. Hruska, Constructing hyperbolic structures for Henon maps. |
| 3:30-4:00 | *Coffee break* |
| 4:00-4:50 | 104 A. Torok, Stable ergodicity of smooth compact Lie group extensions of hyperbolic basic sets. |
| 4:00-4:50 | 125 V. Zharnitsky, Billiards and closed orbits in subriemannian geometry. |
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 ROOM 104
| 9:00-9:50 | J. Smillie, Complex dynamics in two dimensions. |
| 10:00-10:50 | R. Krikorian, Differentiable rigidity and Lyapunov exponents: some examples. |
| 10:50-11:20 | *Coffee break* |
| PARALLEL SESSIONS: ROOMS 104 and 125 | |
| 11:20-12:10 | 104 D. Fisher, Continuous and smooth orbit equivalence rigidity. |
| 11:20-12:10 | 125 B. Fayad, Elliptic constructions and nonuniform hyperbolicity. |
| 12:10-1:30 | *Lunch break* |
| 1:30-2:20 | 104 E. Glasner, Classifying dynamical systems by their recurrence properties. |
| 1:30-2:20 | 125 M. Schmoll, On finite blocking properties for geodesics on translation surfaces. |
| 2:30-3:00 | 104 K. Parwani, Monotone periodic orbits on surfaces. |
| 2:30-3:00 | 125 M. Sullivan, Flow equivalence of skew-products of irreducible shifts of finite type. |
| 3:00-3:30 | 104 W.-C. Cheng, Relations among conditional entropy. |
| 3:00-3:30 | 125 A. Miller, Characterizations of regular almost periodicity in compact minimal abelian flows. |
| 3:30-4:00 | *Coffee break* |
| 4:00-4:50 | 104 L. Koralov, Homogenization and transport by random flows. |
| 4:00-4:50 | 125 B. Kalinin, Rigidity properties of higher rank abelian actions. |
| 8:00 | PARTY |
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 ROOM 104
| 9:00-9:50 | B. Weiss, Recent results in the theory of actions of amenable groups. |
| 10:00-10:50 | H. Hofer, Holomorphic curves in low-dimensional dynamics. |
| 10:50-11:20 | *Coffee break* |
| 11:20-12:10 | D. Dolgopyat, Stable ergodicity of random rotations. |
| 12:10-1:30 | *Lunch break* |
| 1:30-2:20 | P. Le Calvez, A foliated equivariant version of Brouwer's Plane Translation theorem and some applications. |
| 2:30-3:20 | F. Ledrappier, Distribution results for cocompact groups in SL(2,Qp). |
| 3:30-4:00 | *Coffee break* |
| 4:00-4:50 | J. Yorke, Learning about reality from observation. |
| 6:00 | BANQUET in PANDA INN restaurant |
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15 ROOM 104
| 9:00-9:50 | J. Mather, Arnold diffusion. |
| 10:00-10:50 | A. Fathi, The interface of PDE's and Lagrangian dynamics: existence of C1 subsolutions. |
| 10:50-11:20 | *Coffee break* |
| 11:20-12:10 | S. Marmi, Quasianalytic solutions of cohomological equations. |
| 12:20-1:10 | A. Chenciner, Continuing the *Eight* in 3-space: Marchal's P12 family. |
| Following tradition, a short hike will take place for those who wish to partake and weather permitting. | |