Dynamical Systems Seminars

Spring 2003

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 20: No seminar
  

• January 27: Jason Ritt (MIT)
  Irregular Forcing of Phase Oscillators

• February 3: Leonid Kalachev (University of Montana)
  On characterizing domains of attraction for stable solutions of quasi-linear parabolic equations

• February 10: Gabriel Soto (University of Minnesota)
  An integrated model for calcium dynamics during synaptic transmission

• February 17: No seminar
  

• February 24: Bert Peletier (University of Leiden)
  Homoclinic, heteroclinic, and periodic orbits of fourth-order model equations such as the Swift-Hohenberg equation

• March 3: Henk Broer (Groningen)
  Geometry of KAM tori in nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems

• March 10: No seminar
  

• March 17: David Cowan (Tufts University)
  Modeling a gas of hard non-spheres

• March 24: Zbigniew Nitecki (Tufts University)
  Entropy and preimage sets

• March 31: Boris Hasselblatt (Tufts University)
  Differentiability of the Hartman-Grobman linearization

• April 7: Stefan Siegmund (University of Augsburg)
  Nonautonomous dynamical systems and inertial manifolds

• April 14: J. Douglas Wright (Boston University)
  Higher order corrections to the KdV approximation for water waves

• April 21: No seminar
  

• April 28: Antonios Zagaris (Boston University)
  

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