Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar April 1-3 2005
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus
Organizers:
Marshall Hampton
Richard Moeckel
The talks will be held in Vincent Hall room 16 (on the basement level).
Friday, April 1st:
3:30 Manuele Santoprete (UC Irvine), Linear stability of the
Lagrangian triangle solutions for quasihomogeneous potentials.
4:15 Coffee
5:00 Richard Montgomery (UC Santa Cruz),
Fitting hyperbolic pants to a 3-body problem
Saturday, April 2nd:
8:30 Coffee and refreshments
9:00 Leo Butler (Queen's U.),
Invariant fibrations and geodesic flows
10:00 James Meiss (U. Colorado, Boulder), Codes for rotational orbits of the area-preserving Henon map
11:00 Break
11:15 Matt Salomone (Northwestern U.),
Constructing N-body action minimizers
12:15 - 2 Lunch
2:00 Mark Demers (Georgia Tech),
Markov extensions for some dynamical systems with holes
3:00 Joel Robbin (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison),
The Moduli space of a Morse Smale flow
4:00 Break
4:15 Marian Gidea (Northeastern Illinois U.),
Topological methods for instability and diffusion in Hamiltonian
systems
Sunday, April 3rd:
9:00 Coffee
9:30 Hassan Aref (Virginia Tech),
The three-vortex problem and its ramifications
10:30 Youngna Choi (Montclair State U.),
Topology of Attractors from Two-Piece Expanding Maps
There will be a party on Saturday evening at 7 pm.
Sponsors:
The National Science Foundation and the University of Minnesota Mathematics Department.
Registration:
There is no registration fee, however it would be helpful if you inform the organizers that you plan to attend.