Dynamical Systems Seminars
Spring 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.
- January 24: Kresimir Josic (Boston University)
Phase locking in chaotic systems
- January 31: William Basener (Boston University)
Global cross sections and minimal flows
- February 7: Ian Stewart (University of Warwick)
Symmetry, Stochastics, and Sympatric Sepiation
- February 14: Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado)
Chaos and Control
- February 21 George Washington (Mt. Vernon State)
Dynamics of Falling Cherry Trees
- February 28: C. Eugene Wayne (Boston University)
Normal forms, center manifolds, amplitude
equations and all that
- March 13: Andre de Carvalho (SUNY Stony Brook)
Kneading, pruning and Henon
- March 20: Vivi Rottschafer(Boston University)
Existence and stability of traveling fronts in the extended
Fisher-Kolmogorov equation
- March 27: Barbara Keyfitz (University of Houston)
Solving Hyperbolic Problems with Elliptic Methods
- April 3: Lou Kondic (NJIT)
Instabilities in the flow of thin liquid films
- April 10: Ernest Barreto (George Mason University)
Subsystem decomposition of coupled chaotic systems: The decoherence
transition and mechanisms for the breakdown of shadowing
- April 17 Paul Revere (Univ. of Lexington and Concord)
Counting Lanterns across Rivers after Midnight
- April 24 Kathleen Alligood (George Mason University)
The Role of Tangencies in CHain Explosions
- May 1 Anael Lemaitre (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay)
Strongly Coupled Maps: Collective Behavior
and Universal Properties
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