Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Year 1998


Tuesday, January 6, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Deborah Heicklen,   U. of California, Berkeley
Title: Discretized randomly-perturbed dynamical systems
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Tuesday, January 13, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Chengbo Yue,   UIC
Title: Smoothness self-renewal in dynamical systems
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Tuesday, January 20, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Adam Epstein,   SUNY -- Stonybrook
Title: Algebraic Dynamics: Contraction, Finiteness, and Transversality Principles
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Tuesday, January 27, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Chris McCord,   University of Cincinatti
Title: Reconstructing the global dynamics of an attractor
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Tuesday, February 3, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Howie Masur,   UIC
Title: Actions of higher rank lattices on surfaces
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Tuesday, February 10, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Benson Farb,   University of Chicago
Title: Geometry and Rigidity for the Baumslag-Solitar Groups
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Tuesday, February 17, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Rafael Ruggiero Rodrigues,   PUC -- Rio de Janeiro
Title: Topological stability and Gromov hyperbolicity
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Tuesday, February 24, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Marian Gidea,   Loyola University of Chicago
Title: Non-Smooth Dynamical Systems that Exhibit Hyperbolic Behavior
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Tuesday, March 3, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Marlies Gerber,   Indiana University
Title: Horocycle foliations on surfaces of nonpositive curvature
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Tuesday, March 10, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Youngna Choi ,   Northwestern University
Title: Attractors for Lorenz-like maps
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Tuesday, March 17, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Sen Hu,   Princeton
Title: On self-similarity of critical KAM curves
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Tuesday, April 14, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Viviane Baladi,   University of Geneva
Title: The spectrum of coupled map lattices: beyond the first gap
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Tuesday, April 28, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Predrag Cvitanovic',   Northwestern, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Title: Kneading theory for 2-dimensional maps: the pruning front conjecture
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Tuesday, May 12, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Kathy Alligood,   George Mason University
Title: Global Bifurcations of Chaotic Basic Sets
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Thursday, May 14, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Lee Mosher,   Rutgers -- Newark
Title: Quasi-isometries and solvable groups
Special Note: Note special time, date, and room
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Tuesday, May 19, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Hildeberto Carbral,   TBA
Title: Periodic solutions of symmetric perturbations of the Kepler problem
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Tuesday, May 26, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Florence Newberger,   University of Maryland
Title:
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Tuesday, June 2, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Andrew Torok,   Princeton University
Title: "Density of stably ergodic diffeomorphisms around some non-ergodic ones"
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Tuesday, October 13, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Chris Hoffman,   University of Maryland
Title: Rational maps of the Riemann sphere are Bernoulli.
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Tuesday, October 27, 1998

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar


Tuesday, November 3, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Keith Burns,   Northwestern
Title: Stable ergodicity and frame flows
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Tuesday, November 10, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Amie Wilkinson,   Northwestern
Title: Robust ergodic properties of diffeomorphisms
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Tuesday, November 17, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Sara Asher,   Northwestern
Title: Dynamics of Continuous Baker's Maps
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Monday, November 30, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       TBA, 3:00pm
Professor Henk Bruin,   Caltech
Title: Interval Maps and Adic Transformations
Special Note: One hour earlier than usual.
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Tuesday, December 1, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Arek Goetz,   Boston University
Title: Return maps in piecewise affine and piecewise isometric systems
Special Note: One hour earlier than usual.
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