Dynamical Systems Seminar

Dynamical Systems Seminar

List of Talks given in 2004-05

Monday, September 6   Sarah Day, Cornell University
Rigorous numerics based on the Conley index: infinite-dimensional maps
Monday, September 13   Kariane Calta, Cornell University
Veech surfaces and complete periodicity in genus 2
Monday, September 20   John Hubbard, Cornell University
A degenerate case of Newton's method in two variables
Monday, September 27   John Guckenheimer, Cornell University
Henon-like maps from relaxation oscillations
Monday, October 4   Roland Roeder, Cornell University
Homoclinic tangles in tokamaks (nuclear fusion reactors) and heat spirals on the tokamak wall
Monday, October 18   Konstantin Mischaikow, Georgia Tech
Topological analysis of time dependent patterns
Monday, October 25   Tatyana Firsova, Moscow State University
Topology of phase curves of generic analytic vector fields. Kupka-Smale property
Monday, November 1   John Smillie, Cornell University
Some conjectures of John Hubbard about the complex Henon family
Monday, November 8   Tatiana Kutuzova, Moscow State University
Nonexistence of time averages and nonuniqueness of limit measures
Monday, November 15   Suzanne Hruska, Indiana University
The dynamics of polynomial skew products of C^2
Monday, November 22   Greg Buzzard, Purdue University
Holomorphic motions and structural stability for H�non maps
Monday, November 29   Sylvain Bonnot, Universit� de Provence and Cornell University
A global topological model for a class of complex H�non mappings
Monday, December 6   John Robertson, Wichita State University
The critical locus of H�non maps
Monday, January 31   Robert Clewley, Cornell University
A computational tool for the reduction of nonlinear ODE systems possessing multiple scales
Monday, February 14   Roland Roeder, Cornell University
Bumpy tubes and tori � linking in the basins of attraction for Newton's method
Monday, March 7   Robert Ghrist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Braids and parabolic PDEs
Monday, March 14   Kevin Lin, New York University
Entrainment and chaos in the pulse-driven Hodgkin-Huxley oscillator
Monday, March 28   Philip Mummert, Cornell University
Anti-integrable limits, Biham-Wenzel's algorithm, and symbolic dynamics of Henon maps
Monday, April 4   Stanislaus Maier-Paape, RWTH Aachen
Structure of the attractor of the Cahn-Hilliard equation
Monday, April 11   Bill Kalies, Florida Atlantic University
Computational Conley index theory
Monday, April 18   Jan Bouwe van den Berg, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Fourth order differential equations and braids