Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Dynamical Systems Seminar
Year 2005


Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Youngna Choi,   Montclair State University
Title: Topology of Attractors from Expanding Maps with One Discontinuity
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Anna Talitskaya,   Northwestern University
Title: Every compact manifold carries a hyperbolic ergodic map
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Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Alex Furman,   University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Rigidity for actions on infinite volume homogeneous spaces
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Hong-Kun Zhang,   University of Alabama at Birmingham
Title: Chaotic billiards with polynomial mixing rates
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Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Mark Pollicott,   University of Warwick
Title: Sierpinski Gaskets with Overlaps
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Dan Rudolph,   Colorado State
Title: Mixing, disjoint factors and isometric extensions
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Marian Gidea,   Northeastern Illinois University
Title: Topological methods for instability and diffusion in Hamiltonian systems
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00 pm
Professor Francois Ledrappier,   University of Notre Dame
Title: Unique ergodicity for nonuniquely ergodic horocycle flows (Joint work with Omri Sarig)
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Tuesday, May 3, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Jacques Fejoz,   University Paris 6
Title: TBA
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Omri Sarig,   Penn State University
Title: Ergodic theory for the horocycle flow on periodic hyperbolic surfaces (joint with F. Ledrappier)
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Thursday, May 12, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Howard Weiss,   Pennsylvania State University
Title: How smooth is your wavelet? A dynamical systems approach
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Matthew Nicol,   University of Houston
Title: An almost sure invariance principle for nonuniformly hyperbolic systems
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Nikos Frantzikinakis,   Penn State University
Title: Counting polynomial configurations in dense subsets of the integers.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Andres Navas-Flores,   IHES and Universidad de Chile
Title: Sharp regularity for group actions on the circle
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor John Franks,   Northwestern University
Title: Fixed Points of Group Actions on Surfaces
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Jacek Graczyk,   Universite de Paris-Sud
Title: Negative Schwarzian and non-linear cohomological inequality
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Christian Bonatti,   Université de Bourgogne
Title: North-south dynamics and Anosov flows
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Gemma Huguet,   Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Title: The large gap problem in Arnold diffusion for non polynomial perturbations of an a-priori unstable Hamiltonian system
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Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Yakov Pesin,   Pennsylvania State University
Title: "Thermodynamics Associated to Induced Schemes".
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Steve Hurder,   UIC
Title: Hyperbolic minimal sets
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Keith Burns,   Northwestern University
Title: A proof of Sharkovsky's theorem
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Tuesday, December 6, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Mate Wierdl,   University of Memphis
Title: Some unsolved problems in Ergodic Theory
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