Working Seminar: Dynamics and its Working Tools, FALL 2007  

The format is mixed featuring both series of talks by guest speakers and presentations by the participants. The emphasis is on learning appropriate techniques and discussing their recent and potential applications with only general overviews of proofs of results from adjacent fields.

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Seminar meets on Tuesdays from 3:30 till 5:30/5:45 PM in 216 McAllister

Tuesday August 28 David Witte Morris (University of Lethbridge) Ratner theory of unipotent flows, I.
Tuesday September 4 David Witte Morris (University of Lethbridge) Ratner theory of unipotent flows, II.
Tuesday September 11 David Witte Morris (University of Lethbridge) Ratner theory of unipotent flows, III.
Tuesday September 18 David Witte Morris (University of Lethbridge) Ratner theory of unipotent flows, IV.
Tuesday September 25 Dmitry Scheglov Interval exchange transformations, I. Rauzy induction and Gauss transformation.
Tuesday October 2 Dmitry Scheglov Interval exchange transformations, II. Ergodic properties of Gauss transformation.
Tuesday October 9 Dmitry Scheglov Interval exchange transformations, III. Ergodic properties of Gauss transformation, cont.
Tuesday October 16 Andrey Gogolev Introduction to KAM-theory, I.
Tuesday October 23 Andrey Gogolev Introduction to KAM-theory, II.
Tuesday October 30 A. Katok Group representations and dynamics: An introduction
Tuesday November 6 Misha Guysinsky Back to unitary group representations, I. SL(2,R) and SL(2,C}
Tuesday November 13 Bryce Weaver Growth Rate of Periodic orbits for Geodesic Flows on Surfaces with Regions of Positive Curvature
Tuesday November 20 No seminar Thanksgiving break
Tuesday November 27 Misha Guysinsky Back to unitary group representations, II.
Tuesday December 4 Andrey Gogolev Introduction to KAM-theory, III. Moser twist map Theorem
Tuesday December 11 No seminar End of semester