Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Year 2008-2009


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
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Yongxia Hua,   Northwestern
Title: TBA
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Ana Rechtman,   Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
Title: Existence of periodic orbits of geodesible vector fields on closed 3-manifolds
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Fernando Oliveira,   Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Title: Some results on the existence of homoclinic orbits
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Tech L361, 2:00pm
Professor Maria Jose Pacifico,   Institute of Mathematics - UFRJ
Title: Pre-Talk: Survey on the Lorenz chaotic attractor
Special Note: Pre-talk. Note special place.
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Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Maria Jose Pacifico,   Institute of Mathematics - UFRJ
Title: Lorenz systems: decay of correlations for its Poicaré map and a logarithm law for its recurrence time.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Fang Wang,   Northwestern
Title: Some Topics on Mather Theory
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Fernando Oliveira,   Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Title: Prime ends and area preserving homeomorphisms
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Christian Rosendal,   UIC
Title: Descriptive Kakutani equivalence
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Tech L168, 1:00pm
Professor Ana Rodrigues,   IUPUI
Title: Pre-Talk
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Ana Rodrigues,   IUPUI
Title: Kneading sequences for double standard maps
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Tanya Yarmola,   University of Maryland
Title: Degenerate Random Perturbations of Anosov Diffeomorphisms
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Alexander Fish,   Ohio State
Title: Expander phenomena for Bohr sets
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Kasra Rafi,   University of Oklahoma
Title: Counting closed geodesics in a stratum.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Nikolai Chernov,   University of Alabama at Birmingham
Title: Abnormal behavior in periodic Lorentz gases with infinite horizon
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Sergey Tikhomirov,   Saint Petersburg University
Title: Shadowing in smooth flows and structural stability.
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Artur Avila,   CNRS, IMPA, Clay
Title: Convergence of renormalization (and Sullivan's program)
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Amanda Potts,   Northwestern
Title: Nonconventional Polynomial Ergodic Averages and Flows
Abstract and details available



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