Dynamical Systems Seminars

Fall 2006

The Dynamical Systems seminar is held on Monday afternoon at 4:00 PM in MCS 149. Tea beforehand at 3:45 PM in MCS 153.

• September 18 278th Annual Wine and Cheese Party
  

• September 25 Paul Blanchard (Boston University)
  Dynamics in the family z --> z² + lambda / z²

• October 2 Antonio Garijo Real (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
  Parameter planes of the family of functions z --> C z^m exp(z) for m > 1.

• October 10 (Tuesday) Monica Moreno Rocha (CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico)
  External rays and Cantor bouquets

• October 16 Josep Maria (Pitu) Cors (UPC, Manresa, Spain)
  Oblateness and comet-like periodic orbits in the restricted three-body problems

• October 23 Benjamin Kennedy (Rutgers)
  Periodic solutions of differential delay equations

• October 30 Yannick Sire (University of Texas, Austin)
  Some particular solutions on lattices

• November 6 Tommaso Toffoli (Boston University, College of Engineering)
  "Life" without batteries? Or zero-power simulation of dynamical systems (even dissipative ones!) is in principle possible. Can we afford it?
  

• November 13 Stephen Schecter (North Carolina State University)
  Stability of patterns

• November 20 Shangbing Ai (University of Alabama, Huntsville)
  Traveling wave fronts in combustion and chemical reaction models

• November 27 Nikola Popovic (Boston University)
  Canard-induced mixed-mode oscillations in a family of three time-scale systems

• December 4 Robert Pego (Carnegie-Mellon)
  Stability of wave phenomena in infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems: two examples

• December 25 S. Claus (North Pole State College)
  Dynamics in Chimneys
  

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