Working Seminar: Dynamics and its Working Tools, FALL 2008  

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.

Spring 2008 program
Fall 2007 program
Spring 2007 program
Fall 2006 program
Fall 2005 program
Spring 2005 program


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

Coffee and cookies served during the break

Tuesday August 27 NO SEMINAR
Tuesday September 2 Andrey Gogolev Local rigidity of algebraic Anosov actions I.
Tuesday September 9 Andrey Gogolev Local rigidity of algebraic Anosov actions II.
Tuesday September 16 Vaughn Climenhaga Measure theory through dynamical eyes (after Bedlewo Lecture notes), I.
Tuesday September 23 Vaughn Climenhaga Measure theory through dynamical eyes (after Bedlewo Lecture notes), II.
Tuesday September 30 Sun Peng Entropy, shadowing and Invariant measures, I. Preparation: Lyapunov neighborhoods, admissible manifolds, closing and shadowing, etc.
Tuesday October 7 Sun Peng Entropy, shadowing and Invariant measures, II. Katok's theorem on periodic orbits and Herman's counterexample.
Tuesday October 14 Andrey Gogolev Local rigidity of algebraic Anosov actions III.
Tuesday October 21 Andrey Gogolev Local rigidity of algebraic Anosov actions IV.
Tuesday October 28 Sun Peng Entropy, shadowing and Invariant measures, III. Zero entropy invariant measures for skew products.
Tuesday November 4 Zhenqi Wang Classification of symmetric spaces and dynamics of homogeneous systems, I.
Tuesday November 11 Zhenqi Wang Classification of symmetric spaces and dynamics of homogeneous systems, II.
Tuesday November 18 Zhenqi Wang Classification of symmetric spaces and dynamics of homogeneous systems, III. (one hour, due to the Marker lecture)
Tuesday November 25 NO SEMINAR THANSGIVING HOLIDAY
Tuesday December 2 Zhenqi Wang Classification of symmetric spaces and dynamics of homogeneous systems, IV.
Tuesday December 9 Pavlo Tsytsura Exponential error term for the growth of closed geodesics on negatively curved surfaces; after Dolgopyat and Pollicott-Sharp, I.