Seminars in Dynamics

Dynamical Systems Seminars

Spring 1996

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 22: Vered Rom-Kedar (Weizmann)
Nonseparable two degree of freedom Hamiltonian flows
January 29: Duncan Sands (Paris-Sud)
Collet-Eckmann and related hyperbolicity conditions for unimodal maps
February 7: Evelyn Sander (University of Minnesota)
Hyperbolic sets and shadowing for noninvertible maps
February 12: Arek Goetz (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Dynamics of locally isometric mappings of R^n
February 14: Adam Landsberg (Georgia Tech)
Oscillatory bifurcation with broken translation symmetry
February 26: Erik Bollt (USMA)
Controlling Hamiltonian chaos through recurrence
March 4: Spring Break
March 11: No Seminar
March 18: Hinke Ossinga (Groningen)
On the computation of normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds
March 19: Bernd Krauskopf (Cornell)
Infinity is closer than you think: Compactification and vector fields on the cylinder
March 22: Yulij Ilyashenko (Moscow, visiting Cornell)
Finiteness theorems for limit cycles
March 25: Jon Rubin (Brown)
The generation of edge oscillations in an inhomogeneous reaction-diffusion equation
April 1: Sam Kaplan (Boston University)
The collinear one-bumper two-body problem
April 8: Jeff Suzuki (Boston University)
The history of the stability problem in celestial mechanics from Newton to Laplace
April 15: Patriots Day - no classes
April 22: Tom Witelski (MIT)
Shocks in nonlinear diffusion