| Thursday, October 18, 2007 |
| 9:20-9:30 |
-- Welcoming remarks -- |
|
| 9:30-10:30 |
Benjamin Weiss |
Measured topological dynamics |
| 10:30-11:00 |
-- coffee break -- |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Stephen Simpson |
Medvedev degrees
of 2-dimensional subshifts of finite type |
| 12:00-2:30 |
-- lunch break -- |
|
| 2:30-3:30 |
John Clemens |
Isomorphism of subshifts and countable Borel equivalence relations |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Departamental Tea |
| 4:00-5:00 |
Giovanni Forni |
Mathematics Colloquium: On the
Greenfield-Wallach and Katok conjectures |
| 5:10-5:40 |
Alex Yurchenko |
Where to place a hole to achieve a maximum escape |
| 5:40-6:10 |
Alexander Grigo |
Defocusing fails for non-absolutely
focusing components |
| Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| 9:30-10:30 |
Manfred Denker |
Thermodynamic formalism for skew products |
| 10:30-11:00 |
-- coffee break -- |
|
| 11:00-12:00 |
Dmitry Scheglov |
Absence of mixing for special flows over interval
exchange maps |
| 12:00-2:15 |
-- lunch break -- |
|
| 2:15-3:15 |
Yulij Ilyashenko |
Non-attracting attractors |
| 3:15-3:45 |
-- coffee break - |
|
| 3:45-4:45 |
Boris Hasselblatt |
The miracle of Anosov Baire rigidity – nonuniform
hyperbolicity everywhere implies uniform hyperbolicity
|
| 4:45-5:15 |
Jacopo De Simoi |
Complex dynamics in a model for phase
transitions |
| 5:15-5:45 |
Jon Chaika |
Hausdorff dimensions for ergodic
measures of IETs |
| 5:45-6:15 |
Jim Tseng |
Playing Schmidt game with Markov partition |
| 7:00- |
-- Workshop banquet at the "Fuji and Jade Garden" Restaurant, 418 Westerly Parkway, State College PA 16801-- |
| Saturday, October 20, 2007 |
| 9:30-10:30 |
Marcelo Viana |
Absolute continuity, Lyapunov exponents, rigidity |
| 10:30-11:00 |
-- coffee break -- |
|
| 11:00-12:00 |
Huyi Hu |
Infimum of entropy of hyperbolic attractors |
| 12:00-2:15 |
-- lunch break -- |
|
| 2:15-3:15 |
John Mather |
Alnold diffusion |
| 3:15-3:45 |
-- coffee break -- |
|
| 3:45-4:45 |
Vadim Kaloshinn |
Arnold diffusion through a double resonance:
an example of Hedlund type |
| 4:45-5:45 |
Marian Gidea |
Diffusion with optimal time in the large
gap problem |
| 8:00- |
-- Party at the Levis: 196 Potter Lane, Port Matilda, PA 16870 -- |
| Sunday, October 21, 2007 |
| 9:30-10:30 |
Wolfgang Ziller |
Manifolds with positive sectional
curvature |
| 10:30-10:50 |
-- coffee break -- |
|
| 10:50-11:50 |
Larry Guth |
Area-contracting maps |
| 11:50-1:10 |
Lunch break |
|
| 1:10-2:10 |
Yaron Ostrover |
Symplectic measurements and convexity |
| 2:10-3:00 |
Yuri Zarhin |
Finite linear groups, invariant lattices and
elliptic curves |
