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