Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Year 2006

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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Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Howard Masur, UIC; Title: Topological dichotomy and strict ergodicity on translation surfaces
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: David McClendon, Northwestern University; Title: On the identification of points by Borel semiflows
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Ben Schmidt, University of Chicago; Title: Weakly hyperbolic group actions
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University; Title: Existence of physical invariant measures for some chaotic attractors
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Manfred Einsiedler, Ohio State University; Title: The distribution of periodic torus orbits on homogeneous spaces.
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Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Anna Wienhard, University of Chicago; Title: Symplectic Anosov Structures on Riemann surfaces
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Anthony Quas, University of Victoria; Title: Global behaviour of piecewise isometries
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Adilson Motter, Department of Physics, Northwestern University; Title: On a Dynamical Systems Problem in Theoretical Physics
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute of Science; Title: Steep billiard potentials and the Boltzmann ergodic hypothesis
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