EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT

Title: Robust mechanisms for chaotic dynamics
Speaker: Amie Wilkinson
Speaker Info: University of Chicago
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Abstract:

What are the underlying mechanisms for robustly chaotic behavior in smooth dynamics? In addressing this question, I'll focus on the study of diffeomorphisms of a compact manifold, where "chaotic" means "mixing" and and "robustly" means "stable under smooth perturbations." I'll describe recent advances in constructing and using tools called "blenders" to produce stably chaotic behavior with arbitrarily little effort.