Dynamical Systems Seminars
Fall 1999
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.
- August 30: Jean-Pierre Eckmann (University of Geneva)
Porosity and dimension of fractal measures
- September 6: Labour Day
- September 13: Fourth Annual Get-acquainted Wine and Cheese Reception
- September 20: Sir Christopher Zeeman, FRS
Geometric unfolding of a difference equation
- September 27: Martin Golubitsky (University of Houston)
Oscillations in coupled systems and animal gaits
- October 4: Scott Sutherland (SUNY Stony Brook)
Brillouin zones: endpoint boundary-value problems, crystallography,
geometric focusing, and a little number theory
- October 11: Christopher Columbus (University of Genoa)
Great circle routes on the 2-sphere
- October 18: Ranjit Bhattacharjee (Boston University)
The hairy Julia set of the exponential
- October 25: Govind Menon (Brown University)
Geometric singular perturbation theory for the laser PDE
- November 1: David Fried (Boston University)
Zeroes of Dynamical Zeta Functions
- November 8: Rafael de la Llave (University of Texas at Austin)
Construction of orbits of unbounded energy in mechanical systems
- November 15: Mike Field (University of Houston)
Symmetrically coupled systems and cycling chaos
- November 22: Henk Broer (Groningen)
KAM Theory: multiperiodicity in dissipative and conservative systems
- November 29: Moisey Guysinski (Tufts University)
Differentiability of holonomy maps
for Anosov area-preserving maps
of a two-dimensional torus
- December 6: Stephen Yeung (Boston University College of Engineering)
Dynamics of a solid-state laser with injection
- December 13: Henk Bruin (Cal Tech)
Complex quadratic maps, symbolic dynamics, and Hubbard trees
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