Semi-annual Workshop in Dynamical Systems and Related Topics
DYNAMICS AT THE CROSSROADS OF MODERN MATHEMATICS: RECENT PROGRESS AND PERSPECTIVES.
November 2-5, 2006
114 McAllister Building, Mathematics Department, Penn State, University Park Campus
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
DYNAMICS AT THE CROSSROADS OF MODERN MATHEMATICS: RECENT PROGRESS AND PERSPECTIVES.
November 2-5, 2006
114 McAllister Building, Mathematics Department, Penn State, University Park Campus
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
Thursday, November 2, 2006
| 9:00-10:00 | Registration * Coffee service* |
| 10:00-10:15 | Welcome |
| 10:15-11:05 | Rostislav Grigorchuk, Amenability, Liouville property and ergodicity of boundary actions. |
| 11:15-12:05 | Mark Pollicott, A dynamical analogue of Bauer's Theorem. |
| 12:05-1:30 | *Lunch break* |
| 1:30-2:00 | Corinna Ulcigrai, Mixing for flows over interval exchange transformations. |
| 2:05-2:35 | Svetlana Krat, On surfaces with small variation of Gaussian curvature. |
| 2:40-3:30 | Nikita Netsvetaev, On the topological structure of complex projective varieties with simple singularities. |
| 3:30-4:00 | *Departmental Tea* |
| 4:00-5:00 | Department of Mathematics Colloquium Hillel Furstenberg, (G,μ)-dynamical systems: structure theory and multiple recurrence. |
| 5:15-6:05 | Jeremy Wang, An extension procedure for manifolds-with-boundary. |
Friday, November 3, 2006
| 9:30-10:20 | Amie Wilkinson, Asymmetrical diffeomorphisms. |
| 10:30-11:20 | Alistair Windsor, Constructions in elliptic dynamics: recent results and open problems. |
| 11:20-11:45 | * Coffee break* |
| 11:45-12:35 | Boris Kalinin, Smooth rigidity of higher rank abelian actions. |
| 12:45-2:30 | *Lunch break* |
| 2:30-3:20 | Jens Marklof, The distribution of visible lattice points and collision times in the periodic Lorentz gas. |
| 3:30-4:00 | Roman Schubert, Mixing and equidistribution in wave propagation. |
| 4:00-4:30 | * Coffee break* |
| 4:30-5:20 | Dmitry Dolgopyat, Recurrence properties of Lorenz process. |
Saturday, November 4, 2006
| 9:30-10:20 | Dmitry Kleinbock, Expanding translates of horospheres and their applications to number theory. |
| 10:30-11:20 | Gerhard Knieper, Hyperbolic dynamics and Riemannian geometry. |
| 11:20-11:45 | *Coffee break* |
| 11:45-12:35 | Leonid Polterovich, Between symplectic dynamics and symplectic topology. |
| 12:35-2:30 | *Lunch break* |
| 2:30-3:20 | Bruce Kleiner, BiLipschitz embedding in Banach spaces. |
| 3:30-4:20 | Christina Sormani, The topology of complete spaces with nonnegative Ricci curvature. |
| 4:20-4:45 | * Coffee break* |
| 4:45-5:35 | Yuri Burago, Bi-Lipschitz equivalence of Alexandrov surfaces and global Chebyshev coordinates. |
| 7:30 | Voice
Recital by Danya Katok, mezzo-soprano, at University Baptist & Brethren Church, 411 S. Burrowes St. State College |
| 9:00 | Party at the Katoks (food, desserts, and drinks will be served) |
Sunday, November 5, 2006
| 9:00-9:30 | David Ralston, An obesity epidemic in dynamical systems. |
| 9:35-10:05 | Mark Demers, Stability of statistical properties for piecewise hyperbolic maps. |
| 10:10-10:40 | Paul Wright, Some rigorous results for a simple model of the adiabatic piston. |
| 10:40-11:10 | * Coffee break* |
| 11:15-11:45 | Boris Begun, Bernoulli-type behavior in random dynamical systems. |
| 11:50-12:20 | Todd Fisher, Superexponential growth of the number of periodic orbits for non-hyperbolic homoclinic classes. |
| 12:20-1:40 | *Lunch break* |
| 1:40-2:10 | Yuki Yayama, On the uniqueness of measures of full Hausdorff dimension for some compact invariant sets. |
| 2:15-2:45 | Anish Ghosh, SL(2, k)-ergodic invariant measures in positive characteristic. |
| 2:50-3:20 | Meera Mainkar, Anosov automorphisms on nilmanifolds. |