| September 10: |
Some Ramsey-theoretic results for amenable groups |
| Randall McCutcheon (University of Maryland ), randall@math.umd.edu |
| September 17: |
Equivalence relations and the capturing property in topological dynamics |
| Joe Auslander (University of Maryland), jna@math.umd.edu |
| September 24: |
TBA (dynamics seminar will not meet) |
| Conference in honor of S.Novikov |
| October 1: |
Cohomology of amenable foliations |
| Alessandra Iozzi (University of Maryland), iozzi@math.umd.edu |
| October 8: |
TBA (dynamics seminar will not meet) |
| MD-PSU Dynamics Workshop at Penn State Oct.8-11 |
| October 15: |
Topological Dynamics on Moduli Spaces |
| Joseph Previte (Pennsylvania State University), jpp@vortex.bd.psu.edu |
| October 22: |
On the ergodicity of the geodesic flow on surfaces of nonpositive curvature. Joint meeting with the Geometry - Topology seminar. |
| Michael Brin (University of Maryland), College Park, Maryland, mib@math.umd.edu |
| October 29: |
Some New Results About Continued Fractions Via Multifractal
Analysis of the Gauss Map
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| Howie Weiss (Pennsylvania State University & IPST ), hnw1@glue.umd.edu |
| November 5: |
The Julia set of the Feigenbaum quadratic polynomial |
| Jun Hu (IPST and Brooklyn College of CUNY ), hujun@glue.umd.edu |
| November 12: |
Convergence of Convolution Powers |
| Joe Rosenblatt (University of Illinois, Urbana), jrsnbltt@math.uiuc.edu |
| November 13: |
Dynamics of p-adic Rational Maps [Joint meeting of Algebra-Number Theory & Dynamics Seminars: Friday 2pm, Room TBA] |
| Rob Benedetto (University of Rochester ), benny@math.rochester.edu |
| November 19: |
Geometry and physics of averaging with applications |
| Mark Levi (Pennsylvania State University), levi@math.psu.edu |
| December 10: |
Ergodic properties of some linear actions |
| Francois Ledrappier (Ecole Polytechnique), Palaiseau, France, ledrappi@math.polytechnique.fr |
| January 1: |
NOTE: IN SPRING SEMESTER 1999, |
| USUAL START TIME IS 2:30 |
| January 14: |
Random Transformations and the Structure of Group Actions (Lecture 1 of series) 2PM, ROOM 3206 |
| Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University ) |
| January 14: |
Random Transformations and the Structure of Group Actions (Lecture 1 of series) 2PM, ROOM 3206 |
| Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University ) |
| January 19: |
Random Transformations and the Structure of Group Actions (Lectures 2-3 of series) 2-4 PM, ROOM 3206 |
| Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University ) |
| January 28: |
Ergodicity of the geodesic flow: a complete proof. |
| Michael Brin (University of Maryland), College Park, Md, mib@math.umd.edu |
| February 2: |
Random transformations and the structure of group actions (Lecture 4 of series) 230PM,ROOM 3206 |
| Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University ) |
| February 4: |
Mean dimension and some applications
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| Elon Lindenstrauss (Hebrew University), elon@math.huji.ac.il |
| February 9: |
Random Transformations and the Structure of Group Actions (Lecture 5 of series) 230 PM, ROOM 3206 |
| Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University ) |
| February 11: |
Ergodic Theory and the Geometry of Fractals ROOM 3206 |
| Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University ) |
| February 16: |
Random Transformations and the Structure of Group Actions (last lecture of series) ROOM 3206 |
| Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University ) |
| February 18: |
An onto endomorphism of a subshift need not be one-one |
| Dan Rudolph (University of Maryland, College Park ), djr@math.umd.edu |
| February 25: |
Rational maps are one sided Bernoulli |
| Chris Hoffman (University of Maryland, College Park ), hoffman@math.umd.edu |
| March 4: |
An odd Furstenberg-Szemeredi Theorem |
| Bernard Host (Universite' Marne-la-Valle'e ), host@math.univ-mlv.fr |
| March 11: |
Quasi-isometric and bi-Lipschitz equivalences Joint meeting with geometry/topology seminar |
| Dmitri Burago (Pennsylvania State University), State College, PA, burago@math.psu.edu |
| March 18: |
Homoclinic Points and Markov Partitions for Algebraic
Z^d-Actions |
| Doug Lind (University of Washington), lind@math.washington.edu |
| March 20: |
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| MD-PSU Dynamics Workshop at College Park (Sat-Tues, March 20-23, 1999) |
| April 1: |
Expansive invertible onesided cellular automata |
| Mike Boyle (University of Maryland, College Park ), mmb@math.umd.edu |
| April 8: |
Calculating metric entropy for interval maps |
| Mark Pollicott (University of Manchester), mp@ma.man.ac.uk |
| April 15: |
Dimension and product structure of hyperbolic measures |
| Yasha Pesin (Penn State Univ), State College, PA, pesin@math.psu.edu |
| April 22: |
Weak Bernoulli Implies Eventually Agree |
| Steve Kalikow, 72604.3435@compuserve.com |
| April 29: |
Optimal Orbits of Hyperbolic Systems |
| Brian Hunt (UMCP ), bhunt@math |
| May 6: |
Explosions in dynamics Special place: Rm 3206 (colloquium room) |
| Jim Yorke (University of Maryland), College Park, yorke@ipst.umd.edu |
| June 21: |
On Stability Islands in the Domain of Separatrix Crossings Time: 1:30 pm; Place: 1311 |
| Anatole Neishtadt (Moscow Space Research Institute) |
