Cornell Dynamics Seminar, Spring 2012

Friday 2:15pm, Malott 230



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Schedule of talks:

January 27:
Xavier Buff, Université de Toulouse III (Paul Sabatier)
Dynamics on stable curves and rescaling limits (after M. Arfeux)
February 24:
Stephen Chamblee, Indiana University — Purdue University Indianapolis
The Dynamics of Twisted Tent Maps
March 2:
John Guckenheimer, Cornell University
Dynamical Systems Analysis of Animal Locomotion
March 9:
Matthieu Arfeux, Université de Toulouse III (Paul Sabatier)
Trees and Irreducibility of Pern(0)

Dzmitry Dudko, University of Göttingen
Matings with laminations
Attention: additional meeting. Friday, 3:15pm, Malott 230.
March 16:
Kathryn Lindsey, Cornell University
An introduction to McMullen's work on Teichmüller curves on Hilbert modular surfaces
March 23:
spring break

March 30:
Tomas Johnson, Cornell University
Rigorous enclosures of slow manifolds
April 6:
Neil Dobbs, IBM Research
Ergodic properties of some maps from the exponential family
April 13:
Remus Radu, Cornell University
Topological models for semi-parabolic Hénon maps
April 20:
no meeting

April 27:
Giulio Tiozzo, Harvard University
Topological entropy of quadratic polynomials and Hausdorff dimension of sections of the Mandelbrot set
May 4:
John Hubbard, Cornell University
Wakes of cubic polynomials
May 11:
Anders Södergren, Institute for Advanced Study
Equidistribution of pieces of closed horospheres in hyperbolic manifolds
Attention: additional meeting. Friday, 1:30pm, Malott 230.

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