Dynamical Systems Seminar

Dynamical Systems Seminar

List of Talks given in 2008-09

Monday, September 1   Jayadev Athreya, Yale University
Shrinking targets in parabolic dynamical systems
Friday, September 5   Matthew Noonan, Cornell University
A tutorial on FractalStream
Friday, September 19   Yulij Ilyashenko, Cornell University
Polynomial differential equations in real and complex domains
Friday, September 26   Bernd Krauskopf, University of Bristol
The Lorenz manifold: from mathematics to steel
Friday, October 3   Melvin Leok, Purdue University
Lie group and homogeneous variational integrators and their applications to geometric optimal control theory
Friday, October 10   Gabriela Schmithüsen, Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
Veech groups of a family of infinite translation surfaces
Friday, October 17   Richard Schwartz, Brown University
Outer billiards and the modular group
Friday, October 24   Michael Henderson, T. J. Watson Center (IBM)
Continuation in more than two dimensions
Friday, October 31   Hinke Osinga, University of Bristol and Cornell University
Invariant polygons and resonances in a friction oscillator
Friday, November 7   Alexander Bufetov, Rice University
Suspension flows over Vershik’s automorphisms II
Friday, November 14   Dennis Yang, Cornell University
Existence and smoothness of invariant manifolds for a system of ODEs
Friday, November 21   Evgeny Poletsky, Syracuse University
F-holomorphic functions
Monday, November 24   Serge Cantat, Université de Rennes
Dynamics on character varieties: an example, with open questions
Friday, December 5   Chris Lipa, Cornell University
Monodromy and the Hénon map
Friday, January 30   Thorsten Riess, University of Bristol
Bifurcation analysis of EtoP cycles
Friday, February 6   Mathieu Desroches, University of Bristol
Numerical computation of slow manifolds and canards near a folded node
Friday, February 20   John Guckenheimer, Cornell University
Complex oscillations: mixed modes and bursting
Friday, February 27   Christian Kuehn, Cornell University
Singular bifurcation diagrams and the FitzHugh-Nagumo equation
Friday, March 6   Joshua Bowman, Cornell University
From the golden ratio to the geometric series
Friday, March 27   Bernd Krauskopf, University of Bristol
Bifurcations of invariant manifolds in planar endomorphisms
Friday, April 3   Arthur Sherman, National Institute of Health
Bifurcation analysis of the dual oscillator model for pancreatic beta-cells
Friday, April 10   Remus Radu, Cornell University
Understanding topological models for complex Hénon maps
Friday, April 17   Christopher Scheper, Cornell University
Geometry of mixed-mode oscillations in a chemical model
Thursday, April 23   Roland Roeder, SUNY Stony Brook
Complex dynamics for the Lee-Yang zeros - study of a model magnetic material
Friday, April 24   Hinke Osinga, University of Bristol and Cornell University
Numerical computation of isochrons
Friday, May 1   Raluca Tanase, Cornell University
An analytic description of the escaping set U+ for complex Hénon maps
Friday, May 8   Barak Weiss, Ben Gurion University
An introduction to Ratner’s theorems and conjectured analogs for translation surfaces