Dynamical Systems Seminar

Dynamical Systems Seminar

List of Talks given in 2005-06

Monday, September 19   Sarah Koch, Cornell University
Moving in herds: critical points of the H�non map
Friday, September 23   Christiane Rousseau, University of Montreal
The finiteness part of Hilbert's 16th problem for quadratic vector fields
Monday, September 26   Zin Arai, Kyoto University
On the hyperbolicity of the real and complex H�non map
Monday, October 3   Yulij Ilyashenko, Cornell University
Topological properties of polynomial foliations
Wednesday, October 12   Sebastian van Strien, University of Warwick
Density of hyperbolicity
Wednesday, October 12   Stefano Luzzatto, Imperial College
The boundary of hyperbolicity for Henon-like maps
Monday, October 24   Robert Devaney, Boston University
McMullen domains and their environs
Monday, October 31   Xavier Buff, Universit� Paul Sabatier
Quadratic Julia sets with postive area
Monday, November 7   Madhusudhan Venkadesan, Cornell University
Dexterous manipulation in humans: characterizing a noisy dynamical system
Monday, November 14   Arnd Scheel, University of Minnesota
Following coherent structures
Monday, November 21   Drew LaMar, Cornell University
Modeling the inner ear
Monday, November 28   Araceli Medina-Bonifant, University of Rhode Island
Elementary maps on P^2 and their intermingled basins
Monday, December 5   Joshua Bowman, Cornell University
Veech groups of flat surfaces
Monday, December 5   Yoav Naveh, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Upper bounds on the number of invariant components on Abelian differentials
Monday, January 30   Jean-Philippe Lessard, Georgia Institute of Technology
Parallel continuation for equilibria of PDEs
Monday, March 13   W. Patrick Hooper, Yale University
Stable billiards in triangles
Monday, April 3   Adam Epstein, Warwick Mathematics Institute
Teichmuller theory of Riemann surfaces and solenoids
Monday, April 3   Roland Roeder, Fields Institute, Toronto
Linking with currents to study the topology of basins of attraction
Monday, April 10   Dierk Schleicher, International University Bremen
Newton's method for finding roots of complex polynomials (with a view towards transcendental functions)
Monday, April 10   Johannes Rueckert, International University Bremen
Newton's method for transcendental functions
Monday, April 17   Umberto Pesavento, Cornell University
Unsteady aerodynamics of falling plates: experiments, simulations, and bifurcation analysis
Monday, April 24   Mitsuhiro Shishikura, Kyoto University
The renormalization for parabolic fixed points and their perturbations
Monday, May 1   Victor Matveev, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Multistability in a two-cell inhibitory network with T-like currents and synaptic facilitation