Dynamics Seminar

Mondays 2-3 pm in Ryerson 358 and Wednesdays 3-4 pm in Eckhart 312


Autumn 2008

October 6
Kacey Walker
University of Michigan
Connected components of strata of quadratic differentials over Teichmuller space
October 8
Stephen Smale
University of Chicago
Dynamics of Consensus and Flocking
October 13
Anton Zorich
University of Rennes
Lyapunov exponents of the Teichmüller flow, determinant of Laplacian, and volumes of moduli
October 20
Renato Feres
Washington University
Harmonic functions over group actions
October 29
Hamid Hamazi
Johns Hopkins
Inverse spectral problems for symmetric domains in R^n
November 3
Chris Judge
Indiana University
Critical ellipses in translation surfaces
November 10
Howard Masur
University of Chicago
Billiards, ergodicity, and Hausdorff dimension
November 17
Amie Wilkinson
Northwestern University
TBA
December 10
Rich Schwartz
Brown University
Outer billiards and the modular group


Department of Mathematics
Other seminars
Autumn 2007
Spring 2008

For questions or comments, please contact Ben McReynolds (dmcreyn@gmail.com), Matt Bainbridge (mcb@math.uchicago.edu), Ben Schmidt (bischmid@uchicago.edu), or Howard Masur (masur@math.uchicago.edu).