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Dynamical Systems Seminar

Title: Some results on the existence of homoclinic orbits
Speaker: Professor Fernando Oliveira
Speaker Info: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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We are going to show some results about the existence of homoclinic orbits. For example, if we consider the geodesic flow of a metric of positive curvature in the 2-sphere, then every hyperbolic closed geodesic has a homoclinic orbit.
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Time: 3:00pm
Where: Lunt 105
Contact Person: Pat Hooper
Contact email: wphooper@math.northwestern.edu
Contact Phone: 847-491-2853
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