Schedule of talks
Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar
October 10 - 12, 2003
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
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"