Dynamical Systems Seminars

Fall 2010

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 13 Ian Melbourne (University of Surrey)
  Operator renewal theory and mixing rates for dynamical systems with infinite measure

• September 20 Two Talks:
  3:45 PM Hinke Osinga (University of Bristol)
  Continuation-based computation of global isochrons
  4:30 PM Bernd Krauskopf (University of Bristol)
  The role of global manifolds in the transition to chaos in the Lorenz system

• September 27 Chris Chong (Universität Stuttgart)
  The discrete cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation

• October 4 Mathieu Desroches (University of Bristol)
  Canards and inflection

• October 11 C. Columbus (Genoa CC)
  Non-existence of geodesics on a wet 2-sphere

• October 18 Mark Demers (Fairfield University)
  Escape rates and variational principles for dynamical systems with holes

• October 25 Neil Dobbs (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Lab) Typical behavior in (complex, exponential) dynamics
  

• November 1 Anna Benini (University of Barcelona) A taste of transcendental dynamics
  

• November 8 Aaron Brown (Tufts University) Rigidity of measures on the the torus
  

• November 15 Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)
  

• November 22 Eva Uhre (Harvard) Quadratic rational dynamics: the Mandelbrot set and its deformations
  

• November 29 Andrey Shilnikov (Georgia State University) An equation-free approach to studying the organizing principles of a multifunctional central pattern generator
  

• December 6
  

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