Working Seminar: Dynamics and its Working Tools, SPRING 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 January 16 Dmitry Scheglov Slow and not-so-slow mixing in flows on surfaces, I.
Tuesday January 23 Bryce Weaver Construction of Margulis measure for systems with invariant cones, I.
Tuesday January 30 Dmitry Scheglov Slow and not-so-slow mixing in flows on surfaces, II.
Tuesday February 6 Yakov Pesin Principal results and methods in non-uniform hyperbolicity, I.
Tuesday February 13 Sun Peng Below estimates of Lyapunov exponents and applications, after M. Herman
Tuesday February 20 Yakov Pesin Principal results and methods in non-uniform hyperbolicity, II.
Tuesday February 27 Yakov Pesin Principal results and methods in non-uniform hyperbolicity, III.
Tuesday March 6 Bryce Weaver Construction of Margulis measure for systems with invariant cones, II.
Tuesday March 13 NO SEMINAR; SPRING BREAK
Tuesday March 20 NO SEMINAR: MARYLAND CONFERENCE
Tuesday March 27 Andrey Gogolev Moduli of smooth conjugacy for Anosov systems, III.
Tuesday April 3 Andrey Gogolev Robust transitivity
Tuesday April 10 Izabella Laba (University of British Columbia) Green-Tao work on arithmetic progressions in primes and methods and techniques used in it, I.
Tuesday April 17 Izabella Laba (University of British Columbia) Green-Tao work on arithmetic progressions in primes and methods and techniques used in it, II.
Tuesday April 24 Izabella Laba (University of British Columbia) Green-Tao work on arithmetic progressions in primes and methods and techniques used in it, III.
Tuesday May 1 Izabella Laba (University of British Columbia) Green-Tao work on arithmetic progressions in primes and methods and techniques used in it, IV.
MONDAY May 7 (special date) Andrey Gogolev Robust transitivity, II.