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Friday April 2
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| 3:00 |
Kamlesh Parwani, Northwestern University |
| Actions of SL(n,Z) on spheres
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| 4:00 |
Jeff Xia, Northwestern University |
| Action-minimizing periodic
and quasi-periodic solutions of the n-body problem
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Saturday April 3, |
| 8:30 | Breakfast munchies |
| 9:00 |
Rick Moeckel, University of Minnesota |
| TBA |
| 10:00 |
James Montaldi, University of Manchester |
| Stability of systems of point
vortices on the sphere |
| 11:00 |
Jim Yorke, University of Maryland at College Park
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| On area-preserving maps
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| 1:30 |
Anthony Bloch, University of Michigan
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| Nonholonomic mechanics -- a
generalization of Hamiltonian mechanics
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| 2:30 |
Dan Koditschek, University of Michigan |
| On dynamical system modeling
in robotics
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| 3:30 | Break |
| 3:45 |
Dieter Schmidt, University of Cincinnati
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| Variational equations of
elliptic periodic solutions of the N-body problem
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| 4:45 |
George Sell, University of Minnesota
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| Bifurcation theories for
non-autonomous systems
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| 7:00 |
Dinner Party in honor of Ken Meyer |
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Sunday April 4 |
| 9:00 | Breakfast munchies
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| 9:30 |
Todd Fisher,
Northwestern University |
| The structure of hyperbolic
sets |
| 10:30 |
Robert Easton,
University of Colorado |
| Economics: What good is a
model? |