Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar
October 10 - 12, 2003
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
Schedule of talks
On Friday the talks will be held in the LD building (it can be
easily found on this map, look for it
to the left of Blackford Street), room 010, and on Saturday and Sunday
in the IH (School of Law) building (on the corner of New York and West
streets; it is only 1 block from the hotel), room 300.
To see an abstract, click on the title of the talk
Friday, October 10
3:00 pm -- 4:00 pm
Vitaly Bergelson (Ohio State University)
Higher degree mixing out of weak mixing
4:00 pm Coffee
4:30 pm -- 5:30 pm
Mike Boyle (University of Maryland)
Entropy on shrinking scales, and the entropy
theory of symbolic extensions
7:30 pm Theatre
Saturday, October 11
8:30 am Coffee
9:00 am -- 10:00 am
Kuo-Chang Chen (University of Arizona)
Minimizing methods for the N-body problem
without equal-mass constraint
10:00 am Coffee
10:30 am -- 11:30 am
Ana Rodrigues (Oporto University and Minho University)
Secondary bifurcations in systems with S_N
symmetry
11:40 am -- 12:40 pm
Qui-Dong Wang (University of Arizona)
Dynamics of rank one maps: Theory and
application
12:40 pm Lunch break
2:30 pm -- 3:30 pm
Susan Williams (University of South Alabama)
Knots, algebraic dynamics and Mahler
measure
3:30 pm Coffee
4:00 pm -- 5:00 pm
Nandor Simanyi (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
From local to global ergodicity: An algebraic
approach
5:10 pm -- 6:10 pm
Ethan Coven (Wesleyan University)
Continuous Markov maps of the interval
8:00 pm Party
Sunday, October 12
9:00 am Coffee
9:30 am -- 10:30 am
Charles Holton (University of Texas)
Symmetry in packing problems and tiling
systems
10:30 am Coffee
11:00 am -- 12:00 noon
Mike Keane (Wesleyan University)
Coefficient dynamics
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