Dynamical Systems Seminars

Fall 2009

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 21
  99-th annual wine and cheese kick-off event

• September 28 Margaret Beck (Boston University)
  Nonlinear convective stability of travelling fronts near Turing and Hopf instabilities

• October 5 Dan Thompson (Pennsylvania State University)
  The irregular set for the beta transformation has full topological entropy (= log beta) and full Hausdorff dimension (=1)

• October 12 Christopher Q. Columbus (Genoa Institute of Technology)
  Structure of Geodesics on the Two Sphere under H₂0

• October 19 Mike Todd (Boston University)
  Transience in dynamical systems

• October 26 Jean-Luc Thiffeault (University of Wisconsin)
  Braids of entangled particle trajectories

• November 2 Henk Broer (Rijks Universiteit Groningen)
  Geometric KAM theory with some applications

• November 9 Sarah Koch (Harvard University)
  B\"ottcher coordinates in C^m

• November 16 Mark Levi (Pennsylvania State University)
  Bicycle tracks, the symplectic group, and forced pendula

• November 23 Ana Rodrigues (Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis)
  Double standard maps: Tongues and kneading sequences

• November 30
  No seminar

• December 7 David Fried (Boston University)
  Complex Dynamics of Moebius Semigroups

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