DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS and RELATED TOPICS WORKSHOP
October 14-17, 2004
Heritage Hall, HUB-Robeson Center and Wartik Laboratory, Penn State, University Park Campus
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
Click on the name to see Abstract
October 14-17, 2004
Heritage Hall, HUB-Robeson Center and Wartik Laboratory, Penn State, University Park Campus
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
Click on the name to see Abstract
Thursday, October 14, 2004 122, Heritage Hall
| 8:30-9:15 | Registration *Coffee service* |
| 9:15-9:30 | Welcome |
| 9:30-10:20 | Jerome Buzzi, Puzzles of finite type as symbolic dynamics for multidimensional maps. |
| 10:30-11:20 | Mike Boyle, Almost isomorphism for countable state Markov shifts. |
| 11:30-11:55 | Andrew Dykstra, Good almost conjugacy for G-shifts of finite type. |
| 12:00-1:30 | *Lunch break* |
| 1:30-2:20 | Nandor Simanyi, The Boltzmann-Sinai Ergodic Hypothesis in two dimensions (without exceptional models). |
| 2:30-3:20 | Patrick Eberlein, Geometric and dynamical properties of 2-step nilpotent Lie groups. |
| 3:30-4:00 | *Departmental Tea* |
| 4:00-5:00 | Anatoly Vershik, Universal metric space, random graph and related questions, Mathematics Colloquium. |
Friday, October 15, 2004 111, Wartik
| 9:30-10:20 | John Milnor, Rational maps of P2, examples and problems. |
| 10:30-11:00 | *Coffee break* |
| 11:00-11:50 | Chris Connell, Prescribing boundaries for random walks on hyperbolic groups. |
| 12:00-1:30 | *Lunch break* |
| 1:30-2:20 | Vitaly Bergelson, Generalized polynomials: from Weyl and van der Corput to dynamical systems on nilmanifolds. |
| 2:30-3:20 | Renato Feres, Random walks derived from billiards. |
| 3:20-3:50 | * Coffee break* |
| 3:50-4:30 | Hong-Kun Zhang, Billiards with polynomial mixing rates (joint with N. Chernov). |
| 4:40-5:10 | Todd Young, A geometric proof of separatrix crossing results. |
| 5:15-5:40 | Angela Grant, Finding optimal orbits of chaotic systems. |
| 8:30 | Party at the Katoks |
Saturday, October 16, 2004 110, Wartik
| 9:30-10:20 | Dmitry Dolgopyat, Regularity of transport coefficients. |
| 10:30-11:00 | *Coffee break* |
| 11:00-11:50 | Francois Ledrappier, Martin points at infinity for rank one manifolds. |
| 12:00-1:30 | *Lunch break* |
| Special session on measure rigidity | |
| 1:30-2:20 | Manfred Einsiedler, Rigidity of measures - the high entropy case and joinings. |
| 2:30-3:20 | Dmitry Kleinbock, Measure rigidity and p-adic Littlewood-type problems. |
| 3:30-4:00 | *Coffee break* |
| 4:00-4:50 | Andrew Torok, Stability of rapid mixing (joint with M. Field and I. Melbourne). |
| 5:00-5:50 | Anatole Katok, Measure rigidity beyond uniform hyperbolicity and positive entropy. |
| 7:00 | Dinner at Gardens Restaurant |
Sunday, October 17, 2004 110, Wartik
| Session on Riemannian and metric geometry | |
| 9:30-10:20 | Bruce Kleiner, Mostow rigidity for hyperbolic groups. |
| 10:30-11:00 | * Coffee break* |
| 11:00-11:50 | Sergei Ivanov, Boundary rigidity and volume minimality for almost flat metrics. |
| 12:00-1:30 | *Lunch break* |
| 1:30-2:20 | William Minicozzi, The Calabi-Yau conjectures for embedded surfaces. |
| 2:30-3:20 | Xiaochun Rong, The semi-rigidity of nonpositively curved metrics. |
| 3:30-4:00 | *Coffee break* |
| 4:00-4:50 | Anatoly Vershik, Metric spaces with measures and classification of function of several variables. |
| 5:00-5:50 | Boris Kruglikov, Strictly non-proportional geodesically equivalent metrics have htop(g)=0. |