Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Hongkun Zhang,   Northwestern

Title: Decay of correlations for nonuniformly hyperbolic billiards
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Katrin Gelfert,   Visiting Professor, Northwestern University

Title: Lyapunov spectrum of some parabolic maps
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Jana Rodriguez Hertz,   Unversidad de la Republica, Montevideo

Title: New criteria for ergodicity and the Pugh Shub conjecture
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Lan Wen,   Peking University and Northwestern University

Title: Existence of transverse homoclinic points
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Steve Hurder,   UIC

Title: Classifying foliation dynamics
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Bryna Kra,   Northwestern University

Title: Additive combinatorics and ergodic theory: beyond Fourier analysis
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Curt McMullen,   Harvard University

Title: Echos of Teichmueller theory in holomorphic dynamics on the unit disk
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Ayse Sahin,   DePaul

Title: Dye's theorem in the almost continuous category
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Yitwah Cheung,   San Francisco State University

Title: Divergent trajectories of homogeneous flows
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Dave Morris,   University of Lethbridge

Title: Amenable groups that act on the line
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Gregory Galperin,   Eastern Illinois University

Title: Polygonal, Polyhedral, and other Traps for Non-Periodic Billiard Trajectories
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Nikos Frantzikinakis,   University of Memphis

Title: A Hardy Field Extension of Szemeredi's Theorem
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Seonhee Lim,   Cornell University

Title: Volume entropy rigidity for buildings (Joint work with François Ledrappier)
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Tom Sanders,   IAS

Title: Differences and the primes
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Pierre Berger,   Stony Brook University

Title: Persistence of stratifications of laminations
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Kal Nanes,   Northwestern University

Title: On the ergodicity of partially hyperbolic group actions
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Rupert Venzke,   Northwestern

Title: Braid Forcing and Hyperbolic Geometry
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Chris Connell,   Indiana University

Title: Leafwise entropy rigidity for foliations
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Piotr Oprocha,   AGH University of Science and Technology

Title: Coherent lists and chaotic sets
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor David Damanik,   Rice University

Title: Schrödinger cocycles over the skew-shift
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Daniel Thompson,   Warwick Mathematics Institute

Title: The irregular set for the Beta-shift has full topological entropy
Special Note: This talk is on a THURSDAY!
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Mike Todd,   University of Porto

Title: Multifractal analysis for multimodal maps
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Katrin Gelfert,   Northwestern

Title: Multifractal analysis in nonuniformly hyperbolic dynamics
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Francois Ledrappier,   University of Notre Dame

Title: Liouville property on regular covers
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Ralf Spatzier,   University of Michigan

Title: TBA
Special Note: This talk is on a THURSDAY!
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Pierre Py,   University of Chicago

Title: Quasi-morphisms continuous for the C^0-topology on groups of area-preserving diffeomorphisms of surfaces
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