Working Seminar: Dynamics and its Working Tools, SPRING 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.

Fall 2008 program
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 January 13 Dmitry Scheglov Lusternik-Shnirelman Theorem on three closed geodescs on a sphere, I.
Tuesday January 20 Dmitry Scheglov Lusternik-Shnirelman Theorem on three closed geodescs on a sphere, II.
Tuesday January 27 Pavlo Tsytsura Exponential error term for the growth of closed geodesics on negatively curved surfaces; after Dolgopyat and Pollicott-Sharp, II.
Tuesday February 3 Pavlo Tsytsura Exponential error term for the growth of closed geodesics on negatively curved surfaces; after Dolgopyat and Pollicott-Sharp, III.
Tuesday February 10 Federico Rodriguez Hertz, IMERL, Montevideo Introduction to dynamics and ergodic theory of partially hyperbolic systems, I.
Tuesday February 17 Federico Rodriguez Hertz, IMERL, Montevideo Introduction to dynamics and ergodic theory of partially hyperbolic systems, II.
Tuesday February 24 Federico Rodriguez Hertz, IMERL, Montevideo Introduction to dynamics and ergodic theory of partially hyperbolic systems, III.
Tuesday March 3 Anatole Katok Slow entropies, I: A slow introduction
Tuesday March 10 NO SEMINAR SPRING BREAK
Tuesday March 17 Alain Albouy, Paris Observatory Unexpected regularities in Newtonian n-body dynamics, I.
Tuesday March 24 Alain Albouy, Paris Observatory Unexpected regularities in Newtonian n-body dynamics, II.
Tuesday March 31 Anatole Katok and Jean Paul Thouvenot (Paris VI) Slow entropies, II: (Mostly) open problems
Tuesday April 7 NO SEMINAR MARYLAND CONFERENCE
Tuesday April 14 Andrey Gogolev Hyperbolic dynamics on exotic manifolds and topology of Anosov world, I.
Thursday April 16, Room 113 Andrey Gogolev Hyperbolic dynamics on exotic manifolds and topology of Anosov world, II.
Tuesday April 21 Livio Flaminio, University of Lille Cohomological equations and renormalization, I.
Tuesday April 28 Livio Flaminio, University of Lille Cohomological equations and renormalization, II.