Dynamical Systems Seminars
Spring 1997
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 27: David Fried, Boston U.
Markov Partitions and Continued Fraction Algorithms
- February 3: Cristina Soto-Trevino, Boston U.
Periodic and Multiple-Pulse Homoclinic Orbits in Adiabatic Systems
- February 10: Jonathan Sherratt, Warwick University
Mathematical Modeling of Biological Invasions
- February 17: Holiday, No Seminar
- February 24: Gene Wayne, Pennsylvania State University
Periodic Orbits of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
- March 3: Bill Troy, University of Pittsburgh
Periodic Equilibrium States for a Fourth Order Differential Equation
- March 10: Spring Break, No Seminar
- March 17: St. Patrick, Trinity College
Counting Petals on a Shamrock
- March 24: TBA
- March 31: Victor Donnay, Bryn Mawr College
Using Integrability to Produce Chaos: Convex Billiards with Positive
Entropy
- April 7: Michael Boshernitzan, Rice University
Diophantine and Combinatorial Properties
of Interval Exchange Transformations
- April 14: TBA
- April 28: Robert L. Devaney, Boston University
Bifurcation Diagram for the Complex Exponential
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