Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar April 1-3 2005
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus

Organizers:

Marshall Hampton
Richard Moeckel

Schedule:

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.