Dynamical Systems Student Seminar

Fall 2013

• Semptember 6: A Very Brief Introduciton to Dynamics on Homogeneous Spaces, Kurt Vinhage
• September 13: Smooth and measure rigidity for actions of lattices in higher rank Lie groups, Aaron Brown (Working Seminar Preview)
• September 20: Investigations into phase transitions, PSU Creamery
• September 27: Some theorems on polygonal billiards, Shilpak Banerjee
• October 4: Some elementary Lie theory, Agnieszka Zelerowicz
• October 11: Central limit theorems and the Parry measure, Matthew Wroten (Working Seminar Preview)
• October 18: PSU-UMD Semi-Annual Workshop
• October 25: The Schur Multiplier and Hopf's Formula, Kurt Vinhage (Working Seminar Preview)
• November 1: Changuang Dong
• November 8: Oleg Rudenko
• Nobember 15: Aaron Brown
• November 22:
• November 29: THANKSGIVING BREAK
• December 6:
• December 13:

Fall 2012

• September 14: A Brief Introduction to Weyl Chamber Flow, Kurt Vinhage (Notes)
• September 21: Mixing and Correlation Decays, Pavlo Tsytsura
• September 28: An application of the "approximation by conjugation" method, Shilpak Banerjee
• October 5: Geodesic Flow on Manifolds on Nonpositive Curvature, Weisheng Wu
• October 12: Dynamics Workshop - NO SEMINAR
• October 19: Fundamentals of Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, Alena Erchenko
• October 26: Outer Billiards, In-Jee Jeong
• November 2: An Overview of Algebraic K-Theory, Kurt Vinhage (Working Seminar Preview)
• November 9: Weisheng Wu, The Hopf Argument for Geodesic Flows
• November 16: Felipe Ramirez (Working Seminar Preview)
• November 23: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
• November 30: Mike Harrison