| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
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| Wed, 21 Jan 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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Mon, 26 Jan 2009
4:00pm - 5:00pm | Stefan Wenger, University of Illinois at Chicago | Compactness for manifolds with bounded volume and diameter (THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE SYNERGISTIC ROOM) |
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| Mon, 2 Feb 2009 | Sherry Teti, Bryn Mawr | The Existence of Elliptic Periodic Orbits in the Smoothed Bunimovich stadium |
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| Wed, 4 Feb 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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| Mon, 9 Feb 2009 | Mike Todd, Porto | Smooth pressure and Lyapunov spectra for unimodal maps |
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| Mon, 16 Feb 2009 | Federico Rodriguez-Hertz, IMERL | Invariant tori with Anosov dynamics in dimension 3 |
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Mon, 23 Feb 2009
MB114
3:35pm - 4:35pm | Ben Schmidt, University of Chicago | Positivity of the simplicial volume for closed locally symmetric spaces of non-compact type |
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| Wed, 25 Feb 2009 | Jacques Fejoz, Paris 6 and Observatoire de Paris | On a simpler proof of the invariant torus theorem in KAM theory |
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| Mon, 2 Mar 2009 | Marcel Guardia, University Politechnica Catalunia | Exponentially small splitting of separatrices for several rapid periodic perturbations of the pendulum |
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| Wed, 4 Mar 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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| Mon, 9 Mar 2009 | SPRING BREAK | No seminar |
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| Wed, 11 Mar 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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| Mon, 16 Mar 2009 | Steve Simpson, PSU | Computable symbolic dynamics |
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| Wed, 18 Mar 2009 | Anton Gorodetski, University of California, Irvine | Hyperbolic dynamics and properties of the trace map |
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| Mon, 23 Mar 2009 | A. Grigo, Georgia Tech | Absolute Focusing, Elliptic Periodic Orbits, and C^2-Stadia |
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| Wed, 25 Mar 2009 | Eveyth Deligero, U South Eastern Philippines | The generalized St. Petersburg games and its applications to p-adic series expansions |
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| Mon, 30 Mar 2009 | Alain Albouy, CNRS and Observatoire de Paris | TBA |
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| Wed, 1 Apr 2009 | Jon Chaika, Rice | Borel-Cantelli sequences |
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| Mon, 6 Apr 2009 | Maryland Conference | No seminar |
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| Mon, 13 Apr 2009 | Jana Rodriguez Hertz, IMERL | The use of blenders in smooth ergodic theory - a case study |
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| Wed, 15 Apr 2009 | J.-P. Thouvenot, Paris 6 | On the weak Pinsker property |
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| Mon, 20 Apr 2009 | Sergey Tikhomirov, St Petersburg | Shadowing in smooth flows and structural stability |
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| Mon, 27 Apr 2009 | A. Katok, Penn State | An overview and recent progress on "slow entropies" |
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| Wed, 29 Apr 2009 | Livio Flaminio, Lille | Cohomology of nilflows and quantitative equidistribution |
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| Mon, 31 Aug 2009 | | NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK |
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| Mon, 14 Sep 2009 | Ke Zhang, University of Maryland | TBA |
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| Mon, 21 Sep 2009 | Victoria Sadovskaya, University of South Alabama, visiting Penn State | Linear cocycles and criteria of conformality |
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| Wed, 23 Sep 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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| Mon, 28 Sep 2009 | Andrea Venturelli, University of Avignon | Variational construction of parabolic solutions in the N-Body Problem |
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Wed, 30 Sep 2009
3:30pm - 5:00pm | A. Lytchak, Univ Bonn | Affine structures in metric spaces |
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| Mon, 5 Oct 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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| Wed, 7 Oct 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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| Mon, 12 Oct 2009 | Daniel Thompson, Penn State | The irregular set for the beta transformation has full topological entropy (= log beta) and full Hausdorff dimension (=1) |
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| Wed, 14 Oct 2009 | S. Ivanov, Steklov Institute, St. Petersburg and Penn State | On topological aspects of the Dvoretzky Theorem |
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| Mon, 19 Oct 2009 | Zhenqi Wang, Penn State | Local rigidity of partially hyperbolic actions |
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| Wed, 21 Oct 2009 | A. Petrunin, Penn State | Alexandrov meets Lott--Villani--Sturm |
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| Mon, 26 Oct 2009 | Anatole Katok, Penn State | Applications of algebraic $K$-theory to rigidity problems in dynamics: An overview |
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| Wed, 28 Oct 2009 | D. Panov, Imperial College | Non-Kahler Calabi-Yau manifolds via hyperbolic geometry |
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Thu, 29 Oct 2009
MB114
8:00am - 4:00pm | Various, Various | Dynamical Systems and Related Topics Workshop |
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Thu, 29 Oct 2009
MB114
5:00pm - 7:00pm | Various, Various | Various Speakers Throughout the Day |
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Fri, 30 Oct 2009
MB114
8:00am - 6:00pm | Various, Various | Dynamical Systems and Related Topics Workshop |
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Sat, 31 Oct 2009
MB114
8:00am - 6:00pm | Various, Various | Dynamical Systems and Related Topics Workshop |
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Sun, 1 Nov 2009
MB114
8:00am - 6:00pm | Various, Various | Dynamical Systems and Related Topics Workshop |
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| Mon, 2 Nov 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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| Wed, 4 Nov 2009 | S. Tabachnikov, Penn State | Elementary surprises in projective geometry |
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| Mon, 9 Nov 2009 | Anatole Katok, Penn State | An overview of principal results and open problems in parabolic dynamics |
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| Wed, 11 Nov 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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| Mon, 16 Nov 2009 | Zhiren Wang, Princeton | Effective results on actions of commuting toral automorphisms |
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| Wed, 18 Nov 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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| Mon, 23 Nov 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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| Wed, 25 Nov 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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| Mon, 30 Nov 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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| Wed, 2 Dec 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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| Mon, 7 Dec 2009 | Dan Thompson, Penn State | Monotonicity of topological entropy under normalised Ricci flow |
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| Wed, 9 Dec 2009 | D. Burago, A. Petrunin, Penn State | On some open problems in geometry |
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| Mon, 14 Dec 2009 | | To Be Announced |
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