Schedule 
                    Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
                           October 19-21, 2007
                         The University of Michigan

All sessions in 1360 East Hall

Friday, October 19 

  2-2:50 Anthony Bloch (Michigan)
         Integrable Geodesic Flows on the symmetric and skew-symmetric
            matrices

  3-3:50 Sebastian Marotta (Boston University)
         Singular Perturbations of z to z^n with Multiple Poles

  Refreshments

  4-4:50 Steve Batterson (Emory) 
         The Grandfather of American Mathematics and the Dynamics of 
             Meteor Showers

  5-5:50 Youngna Choi (Montclair State)
         Attractors of Two-Piece Expanding Maps

Saturday, October 20
In Celebration of the (almost) Fortieth Anniversary of the August 1968
Berkeley Global Analysis Conference

  9-9:45 John Franks (Northwestern): 
         Global Fixed Points for Surface Actions and Morita’s Theorem

  10-10:50 Robert F. Williams (Texas)
           Higher Dimensional Continued Fractions and Positive Matrices

  11-11:50 Chris Novak (Northwestern)
           Distortion elements and discontinuity growth in the 
                interval exchange group

  12-1:30 Lunch

  1:30-2:20 Morris Hirsch (Wisconsin/Berkeley)
            TBA

  2:30-3:20 Charles Pugh (Toronto)
            Focal Stability (with Mauricio Peixoto)

  4-4:50 Johannes Grote (Michigan State)
         Sharp rigorous enclosures of invariant manifolds and homoclinic
            points and construction of symbolic dynamics 
            (with Martin Berz, Kyoko Makino and Sheldon Newhouse)

  6-9 Banquet

Sunday, October 21

  9-9:50 Kamlesh Parwani (Eastern Illinois)
         C^1 actions of the mapping class group on the circle.

  10-10:50 Xie Zhifu (Virginia State)
           Bifurcation of 4-Body Central Configurations with Three Equal Masses

  11-11:45 Bruce Peckham (Minnesota Duluth)
           Cusp-cusp Bifurcation for Non-invertible Maps of the Plane