Working Seminar: Dynamics and its Working Tools, FALL 2009  

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

Coffee and cookies served during the break

Tuesday September 1 Anatole Katok Some new problems in elliptic and parabolic dynamics
Tuesday September 8 Boris Kalinin, University os South Alabama, visiting Penn State Livshits - type theorems and applications, I
Tuesday September 15 Boris Kalinin, University os South Alabama, visiting Penn State Livshits - type theorems and applications, II
Tuesday September 22 Boris Kalinin, University os South Alabama, visiting Penn State Livshits - type theorems and applications, III
Tuesday September 29 Lewis Bowen, Texas A & M University Entropy in measurable dynamics, I
Tuesday October 6 Lewis Bowen, Texas A & M University Entropy in measurable dynamics, II
Tuesday October 13 Lewis Bowen, Texas A & M University Entropy in measurable dynamics, III
Tuesday October 20 Jean-Francois Quint, Paris 13 Measure rigidity for Zariski dense groups, I.
Tuesday October 27 Jean-Francois Quint, Paris 13 Measure rigidity for Zariski dense groups, II.
Tuesday November 3 Jean-Francois Quint, Paris 13 Measure rigidity for Zariski dense groups, III.
Tuesday November 10 Jean-Francois Quint, Paris 13 Measure rigidity for Zariski dense groups, IV.
Tuesday November 17 Vadim Kaloshin Survey of Arnold diffusion
Tuesday November 24 NO SEMINAR THANSGIVING HOLIDAY
Tuesday December 1 Svetlana Katok Attractors, coding and reduction theory for new general classes of continued fractions, I.
Tuesday December 8 Svetlana Katok Attractors, coding and reduction theory for new general classes of continued fractions, II.