AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:44

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday October 12, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, I
Room B215, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Sergey Bolotin, University of Wisconsin-Madison bolotin@math.wisc.edu
Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison rabinowi@math.wisc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dynamics of Lie algebras and Lie groups on low dimensional real and complex manifolds.
  Morris W. Hirsch*, U. Calif., Berkeley. \& U. Wisc., Madison
  (980-37-26)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Applications of a Nash-Moser implicit function theorem with Whitney regularity to KAM theory.
  John Andrew Vano*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  (980-37-29)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Growth of the number of periodic points of a smooth map.
  Vadim Kaloshin*, MIT
  (980-37-91)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Partial hyperbolicity, Lyapunov exponents and stable ergodicity.
  Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
  Dmitry Dolgopyat, University of Maryland
  Yakov Pesin, Pennsylvania State University
  (980-37-166)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Rigorous Computation of Low Dimensional Structures in Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems.
  Konstantin Mischaikow*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (980-37-90)

Saturday October 12, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, II
Room B215, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Sergey Bolotin, University of Wisconsin-Madison bolotin@math.wisc.edu
Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison rabinowi@math.wisc.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Arnold Diffusion.
  John Mather*, Princeton University
  (980-37-137)
- 2:30 p.m.
  A symplectic fixed point theorem and its applications.
  Zhihong Jeff Xia*, Northwestern University
  (980-37-77)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Geometrc mechanisms for instability in Hamiltonian dynamical systems.
  A. Delshams, Univ. Polit. Catalunya
  Rafael de la Llave*, Univ. Of Texas at Austin
  Teresa M. Seara, Univ. Polit. Catalunya
  (980-37-108)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Lagrangian minimizers and computing periodic orbits.
  Philip L Boyland*, University of Florida
  (980-37-138)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Periodic Points of Hamiltonian Surface Diffeomorphisms.
  John Franks*, Northwestern University
  Michael Handel, Lehman College (CUNY)
  (980-37-65)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, III
Room B215, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Sergey Bolotin, University of Wisconsin-Madison bolotin@math.wisc.edu
Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison rabinowi@math.wisc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Isolating Blocks for the Three-Body Problem.
  Richard B. Moeckel*, University of Minnesota
  (980-70-69)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some variational aspects of the Newtonian N-body problem.
  Kuo-Chang Chen*, University of Arizona
  (980-37-67)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Zero entropy, nonintegrable geodesic flows and a non-commutative rotation vector.
  Leo T Butler*, Northwestern University
  (980-37-48)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Forcing in parabolic flows via braids.
  Robert Ghrist*, University of Illinois, Urbana
  Robert Vandervorst, VU Amsterdam
  (980-37-68)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Bifurcations and stability analysis of a three-dimensional non-autonomous model of molecular systems.
  Ufuk Taneri*, Department of Mathematics, Eastern Mediterranean University
  (980-37-309)

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