Dynamics Seminar, Fall 2009

Friday 2:15, Malott 205, unless otherwise noted




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Schedule of talks:


August 31:
Organizational meeting


September 4:
no meeting


September 11:
Richard Rand, Cornell University
Modeling Relaxation Oscillators

September 18:
Steven Strogatz, Cornell University
The puzzling integrability of Josephson arrays

September 25:
no meeting


October 2:
Justin Moore, Cornell University
Fast growth in the Følner function for Thompson's group

October 9:
no meeting (Fall Break)


October 16:
Vadim Kaloshin, University of Maryland and Penn State University
Quasi-ergodic hypothesis and almost dense orbits on an energy surface

October 23:
no meeting


October 30:
Tanya Firsova, University of Toronto
Generic properties of holomorphic foliations on Stein manifolds: topology of leaves and Kupka-Smale property

November 6:
Yulij Ilyashenko, Cornell University
Bony and thick attractors

November 13:
no meeting


November 20:
no meeting


November 27:
no meeting (Thanksgiving)


December 4:
Kathryn Lindsey, Cornell University
Measure-free ergodic theory