The conference will focus on a few minicourses and plenary lectures, so that a large part of the time will be devoted to informal discussions.  A number of lecture rooms will be available to participants for more specialized sessions.

NOTICE TO LOCAL PARTICIPANTS:  If you are planning to attend the conference and are not on the list of confirmed participants, you must notify the conference organizers in advance of the conference.  The conference center is not open to the public.

Minicourses. Each minicourse will consist of three 50-minute long lectures. The minicourse speakers are:

    Sylvain Crovisier (Paris 13) "Creation of homoclinic intersections" lecture notes
    David Fisher (Indiana) "Local rigidity: a survey" abstract article
    Omri Sarig (Penn State) "Critical phenomena for maps with countable Markov partitions" lecture notes
    Marcelo Viana (IMPA) "Lyapunov exponents of Teichmuller flows" lecture notes
    Lan Wen (Beijing) "Selection of quasi-hyperbolic strings" lecture notes

Plenary talks. There will be a small number of plenary talks, many of them devoted to a broader perspective on areas central to the workshop. There will also be a talk on the work of Francois Ledrappier, who is celebrating his 60th birthday this year.   Plenary speakers include:

    Lorenzo Diaz (PUC/RJ)  "Robust heterodimensional cycles"
    Bassam Fayad (Paris 13)  "Solution to Moser's conjecture on commuting circle diffeomorphisms"
    Giovanni Forni (Toronto)  "Sharp regularity of solutions of the cohomological equation for (typical) interval exchange transformations."
    Anatole Katok (Penn State)  "Measure rigidity beyond uniform hyperbolicity"
    Ian Melbourne (Surrey)  "Decay of correlations for Lorentz gases and Lorenz attractors"
    Maria-Jose Pacifico (UFRJ) "From the Lorenz chaotic attractor to singular-hyperbolic attractors"
    Enrique Pujals (IMPA)  "Density of hyperbolicity and homoclinic bifurcations in attracting regions."
    Michael Shub (Toronto)   "Non-zero Lyapunov exponents in families of dynamical systems"
    Philippe Thieullen (Bordeaux)   "Francois's approach to smooth ergodic theory and stochastic hyperbolic geometry"

Special sessions. Special sessions with shorter talks will focus on recent advances in more specialized areas, including:

Physical measures

Strong statistical properties

Hyperbolicity (uniform and partial)

Nonuniform hyperbolicity

Lyapunov exponents, dimension

Geometry and rigidity

Flat billiards and Teichmuller dynamics

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
	Wednesday May 17	Thursday May 18	Friday May 19	Saturday May 20	Sunday May 21	Monday May 22
9:00 am		Viana I	Viana II	Sarig I	Sarig II	Sarig III
10:00		Wen I	Wen II	Wen III	Fisher II	Fisher III
11:00		BREAK
11:30		Katok	Viana III	Fisher I	Crovisier II	Crovisier III
12:30 pm	Check-in at Cenacle Center	LUNCH
2:00		SPECIAL SESSIONS I	SPECIAL SESSIONS II	Crovisier I	SPECIAL SESSIONS III
3:00				Fayad
4:00		TEA
4:20		Forni	Melbourne	Pujals	SPECIAL
5:15	Shub	Pacifico	Diaz	Thieullen	SESSIONS IV
6:30	DINNER			LEDRAPPIER BIRTHDAY BANQUET	DINNER