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
Abstract and details available


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
Abstract and details available


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
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Alexander Fish,   Hebrew University
Title: Solvability of Linear Equations within Weak-Mixing Sets
Abstract and details available


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
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Amos Nevo,   IAS and Technion University
Title: Ergodic theory and lattice points
Abstract and details available


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
Abstract and details available


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
Abstract and details available


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.
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, May 30, 2006

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


Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Howard Masur,   UIC
Title: Topological dichotomy and strict ergodicity on translation surfaces
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
David McClendon,   Northwestern University
Title: On the identification of points by Borel semiflows
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Ben Schmidt,   University of Chicago
Title: Weakly hyperbolic group actions
Abstract and details available


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
Abstract and details available


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.
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Anna Wienhard,   University of Chicago
Title: Symplectic Anosov Structures on Riemann surfaces
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Anthony Quas,   University of Victoria
Title: Global behaviour of piecewise isometries
Abstract and details available


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
Abstract and details available


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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