Dynamical Systems Seminars

Fall 2000

The Dynamical Systems seminar is held on Monday afternoon at 4:00 PM in MCS 149. Tea beforehand at 3:30 PM in MCS 153.

• September 11: Seventy-fourth annual wine and cheese get-together
  

• September 18: Robert L. Devaney (Boston University)
  Homoclinic points, cauliflowers, and the birth of baby Mandelbrot sets

• September 25: Rob Benedetto (Boston University)
  Dynamics of p-adic rational functions. (Joint Dynamics/Algebra seminar)

• October 2: Gareth Roberts (University of Colorado at Boulder)
  Linear Stability of the Elliptic Lagrangian Triangle Solutions in the Three-Body Problem

• October 9: Chris Columbus. (University of Genoa)
  Non-circular geodesics on the (perfectly symmetric) two-sphere.

• October 16: Roland Gunesch (Penn State University)
  Asymptotic number of periodic orbits for geodesic flows

• October 23: Peter Bates (Brigham Young University)
  Waves in a bistable lattice system with strong, possibly indefinite interaction

• October 30: Igor Mezic (Harvard University)
  Control of Mixing

• November 6: Nic Ormes (University of Connecticut)
  A homeomorphism invariant for substitution tiling spaces

• November 13: Curt McMullen (Harvard University)
  Dynamics on K3 surfaces

• November 16: Kinya Ono (Boston University)
  Critical wave speeds in reaction-diffusion equations
  ******Note special time and room: MCS 180 at 10-11am.

• November 20: ****There will be no seminar****

• November 27: Alex Haro (University of Texas at Austin)
  Invariant manifolds in quasi-periodic maps: rigorous results and computations

• December 4: Marcy Barge (Montana State University)
  Tiling spaces and hyperbolic attractors

• December 11: Thierry Gallay (University of Paris-Sud)
  Periodic orbits, return times and convergence to equilibrium in partial differential equations.

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