Midwest Dynamical Systems

Northwestern University

October 29-31, 2010

Friday, October 29 - Lunt Hall, 2033 Sheridan Road, Room 105
3:00-3:50

John Franks

Area Preserving Entropy Zero Diffeomorphisms

4:00-4:30 Coffee and cookies

4:30-5:20 Charles Pugh

Solution Funnels

6:00-9:00 PARTY
Saturday, October 30 - Chambers Hall (600 Foster Street), Downstairs
9:00-9:30

Coffee and breakfast

9:30-10:20 David Fisher

Local rigidity revisited

11:00-11:50 Victoria Sadovskaya

Linear cocycles over hyperbolic systems: pinching, conformality, and cohomology

Lunch Break

1:30-2:20 Patrick LaVictoire

Exponential Sums and Pointwise Convergence of Averages

2:30-3:20 Ciprian Demeter

Proof of the HRT conjecture for special configurations

3:30-4:00 Coffee and cookies

4:00-4:50 Ana Rechtman

Existence of periodic orbits for geodesible flows on 3-manifolds

Sunday, October 31 - Chambers Hall (600 Foster Street), Downstairs
9:00-9:30

Coffee and breakfast

9:30-10:20 Van Cyr

Constructing Conformal Measures for Transient Markov Shifts

11:00-11:50 Alex Furman

The space of metrics on a hyperbolic group, Sullivan's measure, and rough symmetries.

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