Working Seminar: Dynamics and its Working Tools, SPRING 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.

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

Tuesday January 22 Arseny Egorov Coding in dynamics and geometry, I.
Tuesday January 29 Arseny Egorov Coding in dynamics and geometry, II.
Tuesday February 5 Arseny Egorov Coding in dynamics and geometry, III.
Tuesday February 12 CANCELLED
Tuesday February 19 Feliks Przytycki (Math. Inst. Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) Holomorphic dynamics in one variable: methods of ergodic theory, I. Iteration of rational functions. Introduction.
Tuesday February 26 Feliks Przytycki (Math. Inst. Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) Holomorphic dynamics in one variable: methods of ergodic theory, II. Applications of theormodynamical formalism.
Tuesday March 4 Feliks Przytycki (Math. Inst. Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) Holomorphic dynamics in one variable: methods of ergodic theory, III. Non-unifrom hyperbolicity.
Tuesday March 11 NO SEMINAR Spring break
Tuesday March 18 NO SEMINAR Brin-60 conference
Tuesday March 25 Andrey Gogolev Local rigidity of algebraic Anosov actions I. Introduction.
Tuesday April 1 Andrey Gogolev Local rigidity of algebraic Anosov actions II. A preparatory analytic result.
Tuesday April 8 Andrey Gogolev Local rigidity of algebraic Anosov actions III. Non-stationary normal forms.
Tuesday April 15 Andrey Gogolev Non-stationary normal forms II. This series will continue in the Fall
Tuesday April 22 Yuri Kifer, (Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Shapiro fellow) Averaging in dynamical systems I. An introduction.
Tuesday April 29 Yuri Kifer, (Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Shapiro fellow) Averaging in dynamical systems II. Some classical and new results.