CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF MICHAEL JAKOBSON'S 60TH BIRTHDAY
October 14-17, 2005
114 McAllister Building, Mathematics Department, Penn State, University Park Campus
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
Click on the name to see Abstract
October 14-17, 2005
114 McAllister Building, Mathematics Department, Penn State, University Park Campus
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
Click on the name to see Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2005
| 9:30-10:15 | Registration *Coffee service* |
| 10:15-10:30 | Welcome |
| 10:30-11:30 | Stefano Luzzatto, 25 years on: a quantitative, computer-assisted, version of Jakobson's Theorem. |
| 11:30-2:00 | *Lunch break* |
| 2:00-3:00 | Samuel Senti, Measures of maximal entropy for a class of non-uniformly hyperbolic 2-dimensional maps. |
| 3:15-4:15 | Sebastian van Strien, Solution of the real Fatou conjecture: from Jakobson to the present day. |
| 4:15-4:45 | *Coffee break* |
| 4:45-5:45 | Michael Benediks, Non-uniformly hyperbolic attractors: invertible and non-invertible. |
Saturday, October 15, 2005
| 9:30-10:30 | Sheldon Newhouse, Dissipative surface dynamics: critical points vs. induced maps. |
| 10:30-11:00 | * Coffee break* |
| 11:00-12:00 | Masato Tsujii, Decay of correlations in expanding semi-flows. |
| 12:00-2:00 | *Lunch break* |
| 2:00-3:00 | Jose Alves, Topological structure of partially hyperbolic sets with positive volume. |
| 3:15-4:15 | Lai-Sang Young, Detecting strange attractors. |
| 4:15-4:45 | * Coffee break* |
| 4:45-5:45 | Discussion of current topics and open problems. |
| 8:30 | Party at the Katoks in honor of Michael Jakobson |
Sunday, October 16, 2005
| 9:30-10:30 | Leonid Bunimovich, Dynamical systems and Benford's law. |
| 10:30-11:00 | *Coffee break* |
| 11:00-12:00 | Pavel Bleher, Exact solution of the six-vertex model with domain wall boundary condition. |
| 12:00-2:00 | *Lunch break* |
| 2:00-3:00 | Francois Ledrappier, Distributions of horocycles on abelian covers. |
| 3:15-4:15 | Michal Misiurewicz, Invariant measures for random iterations of affine maps. |
| 4:15-4:45 | * Coffee break* |
| 4:45-5:45 | Gregory Margulis, Discrete groups of affine transformations. |
| 7:00 | Banquet in honor of Michael Jakobson |
Monday, October 17, 2005
| 9:30-10:30 | Greg Swiatek, Dynamics of Meromorphic Misiurewicz Maps. |
| 10:30-11:00 | * Coffee break* |
| 11:00-12:00 | Jacek Graczyk, Negative Schwarzian and cohomological inequality. |
| 12:00-2:00 | *Lunch break* |
| 2:00-3:00 | Yulij Ilyashenko, Skew products and nonremovable Lyapunov exponents. |
| 3:15-4:15 | Marcelo Viana, TBA. |