Schedule
Midwest Dynamical System Seminar
September 25 - 27, 1998
Northwestern University

Friday September 25, Swift 107

3:00 Todd Young, Ohio University
"Rotation Distributions - A Measure Theoretic Version of the Rotation Interval"
4:30Zbigniew Nitecki, Tufts University
"Graph automorphisms and surface homeomorphisms"

Saturday September 26, Swift 107

9:30 Kresimir Josic, Pennsylvania State University
"Chaotic Synchronization of Coupled Oscillators"
11:00 John Alongi, Carleton College
"Rotation Vectors, Accessibility, and Hyperbolicity"
2:00 Marlies Gerber, Indiana University
"Holder Regularity of Horocycle Foliations"
3:15 Bill Cowieson, UCLA
"Multi-Dimensional Piecewise Expanding Maps"
4:30 Florence Newberger, Pennsylvania State University
"Ergodic theory of exotic hyperbolic manifolds with respect to the Bowen-Margulis measure"
8:00 Party

Sunday September 27, Swift 107

9:30 Richard Cushman, Dordrecht
"Monodromy in Routh's sphere"
11:00 Robert Devaney, Boston University
"The Mandelbrot Set and the Farey Tree"