Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Year 2009-2010

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Ke Zhang, University of Maryland; Title: Speed of Arnold diffusion for analytic Hamiltonian systems
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: David Ralston, Ohio State; Title: Constructing Families of Non-Orbit-Equivalent Systems
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Alex Furman, UIC; Title: Invariant and stationary measures for groups of toral automorphisms
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Roland Roeder, IUPUI; Title: Lee-Yang zeros and rational dynamics in two variables
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Andrey Gogolev, U Texas; Title: The space of Anosov diffeomorphisms and new examples of Anosov diffeomorphisms on exotic nilmanifolds.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Hillel Furstenberg, Northwestern University and Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Title: Stationary Measures for Non-Amenable Group Actions and a Szemeredi Theorem for SL(2, R)
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Kevin McGoff, University of Maryland; Title: Orders of accumulation of entropy
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Michael Hochman, Princeton and IAS; Title: Local entropy averages and projection of fractal measures
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Tim Austin, UCLA; Title: Some recent convergence results on non-conventional ergodic averages
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Dave Constantine, University of Chicago; Title: Compact forms of homogeneous spaces and group actions
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Howard Masur, University of Chicago; Title: Is a "random" element in the mapping class group Pseudo-Anosov?
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Dan Thompson, Penn State; Title:
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul; Title: On a two-parameter family of continued fraction transformations
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Marian Gidea, NEIU; Title: Shadowing and Diffusion in Hamiltonian Systems
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Sergey Bezuglyi, Institute for Low Temperature Physics (Kharkov, Ukraine); Title: Invariant Measures on Bratteli Diagrams
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Monday, April 19, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Raul Ures, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay; Title: Entropy maximizing measures for some partially hyperbolic systems
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 102, 10:0am: Alex Gorodnik, University of Bristol; Title: Exponential mixing for automorphisms on nilmanifoldsq
Special Note: unusual time
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Albert Fathi, ENS Lyon; Title: Lyapunov functions: continuous, Lipschitz or smooth? Aubry-Mather Formalism for Homeomorphism.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Natalie Frank, Vassar College; Title: Self-similar tilings, finite local complexity, and generalized beta-transformations
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Ayse Sahin, DePaul; Title: Directional entropy and orbit equivalence for measurable Z^d actions
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: D. Ben McReynolds, U. of Chicago; Title: Symmetry and Teichmuller curves
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Anthony Quas, Victoria; Title: Semi-invertible Oseledets Theorems and Applications
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