Dynamics Seminar, Fall 2008


Meets 2:15 on Fridays in Malott 205, unless otherwise noted.

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Friday, 8/29: Organizational meeting

Monday, 9/1 (2:45, Bache): Shrinking target properties for parabolic dynamical systems
Jayadev Athreya, Yale University

Friday, 9/5: A tutorial on FractalStream
Matt Noonan, Cornell University

Friday, 9/12: no meeting

Friday, 9/19: Polynomial differential equations in real and complex domains
Yulij Ilyashenko, Cornell University

Monday, 9/22 (2:45, Malott 230): Lattice surfaces, the Veech dichotomy and generalizations
Barak Weiss, Ben Gurion University

Friday, 9/26: The Lorenz manifold: from mathematics to steel
Bernd Krauskopf, University of Bristol

Friday, 10/3: Lie group and homogeneous variational integrators and their applications to geometric optimal control theory
Melvin Leok, Purdue University

Friday, 10/10: Veech groups of a family of infinite translation surfaces
Gabriela Schmithüsen, Universität Karlsruhe

Friday, 10/17: Outer billiards and the modular group
Richard Schwartz, Brown University

Friday, 10/24: Continuation in more than two dimensions
Michael Henderson, T.J. Watson Center (IBM)

Friday, 10/31: Invariant polygons and resonances in a friction oscillator
Hinke Osinga, University of Bristol

Friday, 11/7: Suspension flows over Vershik's automorphisms II
Alexander Bufetov, Rice University

Friday, 11/14: Existence and smoothness of invariant manifolds for a system of ODEs
Dennis Yang, Cornell University

Friday, 11/21: F-holomorphic functions
Evgeny Poletsky, Syracuse University

Monday, 11/24 (2:45, Bache): Dynamics on Character Varieties: an example, with open questions
Serge Cantat, Université de Rennes

Friday, 12/5: Monodromy and the Hénon map
Chris Lipa, Cornell University