Dynamical Systems Seminars

Spring 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.

• January 18 Martin Luther King Day
  

• January 25 No seminar
  

• February 1 Blaz Mramor (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  Aubry-Mather theory and ghost circles

• February 8 Ryan Broderick (Brandeis University)
  Schmidt's game and orbits of toral endomorphisms

• February 15 George (M.W.U.)
  Remarks on being the first iterate

• February 16: SPECIAL SEMINAR (4-5 pm): Joseph Galante (University of Maryland)
  Cometary Escape in the Restricted Circular Planar Three Body Problem

• February 19: SPECIAL SEMINAR (3-4 pm): Joshua Clemons (University of North Carolina)
  Dynamical Properties of Weierstrass Elliptic Functions on Square Lattices

• February 22 Will Ott (University of Houston)
  Borel-Cantelli Lemmas for Dynamical Systems

• February 22: SPECIAL SEMINAR (3-4 pm): Travis Waddington (SUNY Stony Brook)
  

• February 24: SPECIAL SEMINAR (2--3 pm): Christian Kuehn (Cornell University)
  Multiple time-scale dynamics: bifurcations and mixed-mode oscillations

• March 1 Xavier Jarque (University of Barcelona)
  Connectivity of the escaping set for transcendental entire maps

• March 8 Spring Break: no seminar
  

• March 15 Dan Look (St. Lawrence University)
  Checkered Julia sets

• March 22 Korana Burke (U.C. Merced)
  Chaotic transport in phase space --- ionization of a Rydberg atom subjected to external electric field pulses

• March 29: Note Special Time: 3:00--4:00 pm: Matt Holzer (Boston University)
  Renormalization group methods for singularly perturbed systems and traveling waves in a reaction-diffusion-mechanics system

• April 5 Paola Malerba (Boston University)
  Excitation dominated or inhibition dominated: different mechanisms behind rhythmic interaction in a hippocampal model

• April 12 Baldur Hedinsson (Boston University)
  Inhibitory cell interactions: synchrony vs. anti-synchrony and the effect of periodic forcing

• April 15: SPECIAL SEMINAR (4 PM) Thomas Jordan (Bristol University)
  Multifractal analysis of Birkhoff averages for countable Markov maps

• April 19 Paul Revere (Silversmith U.)
  An early study of nonlinear dynamics of real horseshoes

• April 26 Hongkun Zhang (UMass Amherst)
  Spectral gaps of transfer operators for deterministic and random billiards

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