Dynamical Systems Seminars
Spring 2001
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 22: No Seminar
- January 29: David Fried (Boston University)
Hyperbolic Tilings, Symbolic Dynamics, and Bianchi Groups
- February 5: Dmitry Dolgopyat (Pennsylvania State University)
Passive Transport in Random Periodic Media
- February 12: Changfeng Gui (University of Connecticut)
Concentration phenomena of a nonlinear Neumann problem
- February 19: No Seminar
- February 26: Juan Rivera-Letelier (SUNY Stony Brook)
Rational maps with decay of geometry:
rigidity, Thurston's algorithm and local connectivity.
- March 2: David Morgan (Boston University) Special Seminar
Annular rings and their destabilization into spots in the 2-D
Gray-Scott model
- March 5: No Seminar
- March 12: Andrea Bertozzi (Duke University)
Uncompressive Shocks in Driven Film Flow
- March 19: Lisa Humphreys (Rhode Island College)
An exploration of a nonlinear spring-mass model: From Runge-Kutta to
Newton's Method to mountain pass techniques
- March 26: Raphael de la Llave (University of Texas at Austin)
Geometric mechanisms for diffusion in Hamiltonian systems.
Rigorous results on resonances.
- April 2: Valentin Afraimovich (IICO-UASLP, Mexico)
Some topological properties of chaotic lattice dynamical systems
- April 9: Lee DeVille (Boston University)
- April 16: Paul Revere (Lexinton and Concord State U.)
Arcs of Cannonballs from English-made Cannons
- April 23: Roderick Jensen (Wesleyan University)
Synchronization of Randomly Driven Nonlinear Oscillators and the
Reliable Firing of Cortical Neurons
- April 30: Victor Roytburd (Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Dynamics of a three-mode approximation of a model of thermal instabilities
- May 14: Michael Grinfeld (University of Strathclyde in Glasgow)
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