Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Year 2005-2006

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Andres Navas-Flores, IHES and Universidad de Chile; Title: Sharp regularity for group actions on the circle
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor John Franks, Northwestern University; Title: Fixed Points of Group Actions on Surfaces
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Jacek Graczyk, Universite de Paris-Sud; Title: Negative Schwarzian and non-linear cohomological inequality
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Christian Bonatti, Université de Bourgogne; Title: North-south dynamics and Anosov flows
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Gemma Huguet, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; Title: The large gap problem in Arnold diffusion for non polynomial perturbations of an a-priori unstable Hamiltonian system
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Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Yakov Pesin, Pennsylvania State University; Title: "Thermodynamics Associated to Induced Schemes".
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Steve Hurder, UIC; Title: Hyperbolic minimal sets
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Keith Burns, Northwestern University; Title: A proof of Sharkovsky's theorem
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Tuesday, December 6, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis; Title: Some unsolved problems in Ergodic Theory
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Curt McMullen, Harvard University; Title: Topology of numbers
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Alexander Bufetov, University of Chicago; Title: Decay of correlations for the Rauzy-Veech-Zorich induction map on the space of interval exchange transformations
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Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Bernard Host, University of Marne la Vallee; Title: Gowers's norms in combinatorial number theory and in ergodic theory
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3pm: Professor Bernard Host, University of Marne la Vallee; Title: Multiple recurrence and convergence along the primes
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Alexander Fish, Hebrew University; Title: Solvability of Linear Equations within Weak-Mixing Sets
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern; Title: Centralizers of C^1 generic diffeomorphisms
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Tuesday, March 7, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3pm: Professor Chris Leininger, University of Illinois; Title: Pseudo-Anosov dilatations and homology
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Amos Nevo, IAS and Technion University; Title: Ergodic theory and lattice points
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Tuesday, April 4, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University; Title: A criterion for unique ergodicity of a translation flow
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor David Fisher, Indiana University; Title: Coarse differentiation of quasi-isometries and rigidity for lattices in solvable Lie groups
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Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Isaac Kornfeld, Northwestern University; Title: Cantor minimal models for ergodic transformations and topological orbit equivalence.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Pat Hooper, SUNY Stony Brook; Title: Stable Periodic Billiard Paths in Triangle
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