Seminars in Dynamics

Dynamical Systems Seminars

Spring 2002

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 21: Holiday - No Seminar
January 23: Kresimir Josic (Boston University) - joint N-gang/Dynamical Systems Seminar
Phase Synchronization in Systems with Small Phase Diffusion
January 28: Brian Hunt (University of Maryland)
Using low-dimensional dynamics to improve weather forecasting
February 4: Rodrigo Alonso Perez (SUNY Stony Brook)
Fibonacci Maps and Generalizations in the Quadratic Family
February 11: Rafael de la Llave (University of Texas at Austin)
Minimal Surfaces in Periodic Media
February 18: No Seminar
February 25: No Seminar
March 4: No Seminar (Spring Break)
March 11: Lora Billings (Montclair State University)
Noise Induced Chaos
March 18: Horacio Rotstein
The canard phenomenon as a mechanism of localization of oscilllations
March 25: Leon Glass (McGill University)
Can Simple Equations be Used to Model Real Gene Networks?
April 1: Warwick Tucker (Cornell University)
The Lorenz attractor exists
April 8: Monica Moreno Rocha (Boston University)
Indecomposable Continua and Complex Dynamics
April 15: Paul Revere (University of Lexington and Concord)
How to count n lanterns across a river for n = 1, 2.
April 22: Vadim Kaloshin (MIT)
Growth of the number of periodic orbits for generic diffeomorphisms
April 29: Douglas Lind (Yale University)
A Gentle Introduction to Algebraic Z^d actions