This workshop provides an introduction to complex and non-Archimedean dynamics in one variable via lecture series by the speakers below. The workshop will begin on Friday, December 7, 2012 in the afternoon and end on
Sunday, December 9 in the early afternoon.

Speakers

• Laura DeMarco (University of Illinois at Chicago): Non-Archimedean dynamics and degenerations of complex dynamical systems
• Xander Faber (University of Hawaii): Non-Archimedean dynamics and degenerations of complex dynamical systems
• Thomas Gauthier (University of Picardie and Stony Brook University:) Bifurcation currents in complex dynamics
  
• William Gignac (University of Michigan): Introduction to the Berkovich projective line
  
• Yusuke Okuyama(Kyoto Institute of Technology): Equidistribution problems

 Funding

Limited funding is available for graduate students and post-docs. Please note your request on the registration form and send an e-mail to Trevor Clark or Mattias Jonsson.

Register for the Workshop

Dynamical Systems: 100 years after Poincaré 
September 3, 2012 - September 7, 2012

Early registration: 15/02/2012-15/06/2012
Abstracts submission: 15/02/2012-30/04/2012

The conference is organized by the Dynamical Systems Group at the University of Oviedo.The aim is to bring together a broad group of scientists working in the field of dynamical systems on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Henri Poincarщ.

All topics related with dynamical systems are considered but focusing on local and global bifurcations in discrete and continuous dynamical systems, planar vector fields and celestial mechanics.
Applications to real-world problems will be highlighted. The conference will promote the diffusion of recent developments and future perspectives.

There will be ten keynote speakers, sixty-four 30-minutes contributed talks in two parallel sessions and also two poster sessions. Plenary speakers are experts chosen from different areas of Dynamical Systems.

In behalf of the Organizing Committee,

Santiago Ibсёez

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From Dynamics to Complexity
 May 7, 2012 - May 11, 2012
Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada

A conference celebrating the work of Mike Shub

Further information is available at
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/11-12/dynamics2complexity/

Organizing Committee:

Jean-Pierre Dedieu (University Paul Sabatier)
Teresa Krick (Department of Mathematics, University of Buenos Aires)
Charles Pugh (Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University)
Amie Wilkinson (Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University)

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Progress and Problems in Dynamics  May 14, 2012 - May 16, 2012
Medical Center, Hilton, Houston (University of Houston)

The aim of the workshop is to review progress and potential topics ripe for cross fertilization and development in the areas of probabilistic dynamics, network dynamics and hybrid dynamic systems.  Participants include a core of experts in the modern statistical theory of dynamical systems complemented by experts in specific areas in dynamics and applications (heteroclinic phenomena, cycling chaos, adaptive networks, control, spatially exptnded systems, and piecewise smooth dynamics).

A priority of the workshop is to involve graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty interested in dynamics and applications.  We anticipate being able to fund travel and accommodation for members of this group (see under support below and note that we expect to know the funding situation in the very near future; we strongly recommend applying now for support).

The workshop will take place at the Hilton, Houston Medical Center.  So as to encourage interactions between participants, there will be no parallel sessions and talks will be structured so as to give ample time for discussion (see also under accommodation below).

• Program and Schedule of Talks
• Participants
• Support (for graduates, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty)
• Accomodation
• Travel
• Workshop Dinner

• Sheena Branton
• Michael Field
• Gemunu Gunaratne
• Preethi Gunaratne
• Matthew Nicol
• Andrew Torok

Conference Dynamics and Geometry

Geometric and Algebraic Structures in Mathematics (Celebrating Dennis Sullivan's 70th Birthday)

The Conference will cover various areas of Dennis Sullivan's interests, and will be structured as a series of coherent mini-programs centered around a set of mini-courses.

Mini-courses:
* Diffeomorphism groups from a homotopical viewpoint (Ib Madsen, University of Copenhagen)
* QFT and string theory (Kevin Costello, Northwestern University)
* Rational homotopy theory (John Morgan, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics)
* Fluid Dynamics (Alexander Shnirelman, Concordia University)
* Rough Geometry (Bruce Kleiner, Courant Institute)
* Renormalization (Artur Avila*, CNRS and IMPA, and Misha Lyubich, IMS)
* Sullivan's Dictionary (Dick Canary, University of Michigan)

For more information please visit the webpage of the conference:

http://www.math.sunysb.edu/dennisfest/

Scientific Committee: John Milnor, Curt McMullen, Jim Stasheff, and all mini-course speakers.

Local organizers: Araceli Bonifant, Joshua Bowman, Misha Lyubich

Speakers:
J. Athreya, P-.E. Caprace, M. Einsiedler, A. Erschler, A. Gorodnick, Y. Guivarch, V. Kaimanovich, D. Kleinbock, E. Lindenstrauss, J. Marklof, N. Monod, A. Nevo, H. Oh, J.-F. Quint, N. Shah, Y. Shalom, A. Wienhard.

Scientific Committee:
Y. Benoist, F. Ledrappier, G. Margulis, S. Mozes

Organizers:
E. Breuillard, F. Dal'Bo, F. Labourie, F. Paulin, B. Weiss

Organizers:  Arnaud Cheritat, Xavier Buff and Patrick Bernard

The conference will be held at the Banff Center, with some participants staying at the adjacent Banff International Research Station.

Objectives:

• To foster interaction among researchers in holomorphic dynamics and allied fields such as several complex variables, Teichmüller theory, self-similar groups, arithmetic dynamics, symbolic dynamics, hyperbolic and algebraic geometry, statistical physics, etc.
• To use this interaction for designing new mathematical tools that can aid in the progress in holomorphic dynamics, especially in understanding and building models of multi-dimensional parameter spaces.
• To involve graduate students and younger researchers into discussions with more senior mathematicians. This interaction will be beneficial for their scientific growth, and will inject new fresh ideas into the field.
• To celebrate John Milnor's 80th birthday: his influence on the field of holomorphic dynamics cannot be overestimated.

For more information about the conference please visit our web-page
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/jackfest/

Organizers:
Araceli Bonifant, Misha Lyubich, Scott Sutherland

The school will consist of three courses :

• "Kahler Geometry and convexity" by Bo Berndtsson,
• "The Cremona group" by Charles Favre,
• "Hardy spaces of Dirichlet series and function theory on polydiscs" by Kristian Seip.

The school will be followed up by KAWA 2.1, a Workshop in Complex Analysis and Geometry.
The workshop will consist in a dozen of 45' talks. We welcome proposals for talks for this workshop.
The Winterschool will start on Monday morning, the 31st of January 2011, and will end right after lunch, Thursday the 3rd of February 2011. The Workshop will start Thursday the 3rd of February 2011 in the afternoon and end Saturday the 5th.
Both events will be hosted by CIRM, in the campus of Luminy (Marseille, France), see
http://www.cirm.univ-mrs.fr/index.html/?lang=en
and it will be part of the thematic month "Complex and Riemannian Geometry" see
http://www.latp.univ-provence.fr/geom2011/index.php/welcome

More information can be found on the website
http://www.latp.univ-provence.fr/geom2011/index.php/welcome/week1


The organizers,
Vincent Guedj (Aix-Marseille)
Joaquim Ortega-Cerda (Barcelona)
Pascal J. Thomas (Toulouse)

For more information please visit:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2010-2011/symposium1011/finalcody/

This workshop is part of the CODY Autumn in Warsaw mini-semester - see
http://www.impan.pl/~autumn10/

There is a link from that web page to the registration form - the deadline for registration is 25th July. The registration form gives you the option of offering a talk for the workshop. We also expect to run a poster session at some point during the week.

There is funding from CODY to support some local expenses for some participants.

Organizers:
Janina Kotus
Phil Rippon
Gwyneth Stallard

Bryn Mawr College will host a conference on the occasion of John Oxtoby's centennial on the Bryn Mawr campus. The Saturday conference will have three parts. The first part consists of morning talks in dynamics addressed to mathematicians, the second part consists of two early afternoon talks addressed to a general audience, with undergraduate students specially encouraged to attend. The third part consists of mid to late afternoon research talks in dynamics. The Sunday conference will consist of a morning session of talks in dynamics. The speakers include Tim Austin, Ethan Akin, Robert Devaney, Jane Hawkins, Fern Hunt, Mike Keane, Dan Mauldin, Nelson Markley, Kyewon Park, V.S. Prasad, and Susan Williams.

There will be a banquet Saturday night on the Bryn Mawr campus. Please see the following website for information and registration.
http://williams.edu/Mathematics/csilva/Oxtoby_Centennial_Conf.htm

Organizers:
Alex Eskin, Ursula Hamenstaedt, Maxim Kontsevich, Martin Moeller, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz and Anton Zorich.

Thomas Scanlon will give a series of five introductory lectures on the use of model theory in algebraic dynamics.

Organizers: Thomas Tucker, Thomas Scanlon, Joseph Silverman, Lucien Szpiro

Nipissing University will offer a Workshop on Recent Advances in Topological and Measure-Theoretic Methods in Dynamical Systems in order to bring researchers and students in these areas together for a five-day series of workshops. The workshops will be jointly supported by the National Science Foundation (funding recommended, but final approval pending) and the Fields Institute, and will be held at Nipissing~Rs pleasant campus in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, May 17-21, 2010.

Over the last 30 years, there have been many developments that have increased the interaction among topology, measure theory, and dynamical systems. Pending NSF support will be used for at least 10 US-based students and recent PhDs to attend the workshops. The workshops will provide the opportunity for recently trained professional mathematicians and students to prepare for research in areas in which current developments are moving rapidly at the intersection point of topology, measure theory, and dynamics. Major speakers with international reputations have been selected who are active in these research areas. Please see the website below:

http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/09-10/topmethods/

This workshop on the modern frontiers of Dynamical Systems and Number Theory is the first EU-Young and Mobile Workshop. It is a joint initiative of the European Research Councils, and will provide travel support for a limited number of young European researchers. The sponsors so far are the Dutch, German, Italian, Russian and UK councils. The deadline for applications is 31 January 2010.

Further details can be found online
http://www.icms.org.uk/workshops/euyam

Organizers: Joseph Galante and Vadim Kaloshin

The details can be found on the website
http://www-users.math.umd.edu/~joepi/celestial.html

The Spring 2010 meeting of the Maryland-Penn State Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics will be held in honor of Dan Rudolph in celebration of his 60th birthday.

The meeting will be Saturday - Tuesday April 10-13, 2010. The conference web page will be http://www.math.umd.edu/research/dynamics/conferences/md10/

The plan is to bring together people working on different aspects of the dynamics of rational maps on the Riemann sphere. All those interested in this area are encouraged to register. Accommodation for those connected with the CODY Network will be covered by University of Warwick node.

Organizers: Davoud Cheraghi, Sebastian van Strien.

The conference will feature 18 invited speakers and 4 special sessions with contributed talks in
1) Geometric Topology/Geometric Group Theory
2) Dynamical Systems
3) Continuum Theory
4) General and Set Theoretic Topology

NSF support is expected and proposed to include modest travel grants to support approximately 24 graduate students and 20 established researchers.

A preliminary conference webpage exists here with more details on lodging and travel arrangements.
http://www2.msstate.edu/~fabel/sptop10a

The school is targeted at the advanced graduate students, with a background in Hamiltonian systems.

There will be four courses of 3-4 hours each, listed in alphabetical order:

First course is by Jacques Fejoz:
Periodic and quasiperiodic motions in the N body problem.

This class is devoted to KAM theory to the N body problem and related questions.

Second course is by Mark Levi
Collision and choreographies

This class is devoted to variational principles and its application to find break orbits (Seifert's), Stormer's problem. Possible applications of Gromov's non--squeezing theorem in celestial mechanics and optics.

Third course is by Richard Montgomery
N body problem: geometric, variational and topological approaches.

This class is devoted to discussion of Open questions, including ``the Oldest Question''. Variational methods and the figure eight. These ideas could be applicable to some designer orbits. Discussion of McGehee blow-up, some of Moeckel's results, Albouy coordinates along with hyperbolic pants will be given.

Fourth course is by Ke Zhang and Jinxin Xue.
Averaging and long time stability for the N body problem.

This class is devoted to applicability of averaging to the N body problem. Part of the class will be devoted to Treschev's method of continuous averaging.

The conference is funded by NSF and we can cover lodging of participants. Some assistance with travel expenses of Ph.D students can be provided.

Organizers: Joseph Galante and Vadim Kaloshin

The details can be found on the website
http://www-users.math.umd.edu/~joepi/celestial.html

The school will focus on the study of periodic approximations as a tool to understand the ergodic properties of deterministic dynamical systems, and as a method of construction of examples (and counter-examples) of ergodic behavior, especially in dynamics related to quasi-periodic motion, such as perturbations of completely integrable systems, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion theory, quasi-periodic cocycles, Schrodinger equation, 1-dimensional complex dynamics around elliptic fixed points, etc.

The school will be aimed at students and young researchers and its goal is to provide them with the state of the art ideas and techniques of the included topics.

Organizers : Carlo Carminati (Pisa), Bassam Fayad (Paris 13), Anatole Katok (PSU), Raphael Krikorian (Paris 6), Stefano Marmi (Pisa).

Scientific committee : Hakan Eliasson (IMJ Paris), Giovanni Forni (Maryland University), Antonio Giorgilli (Milano), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (College de France Paris).

The courses :

1) Periodic approximation in measurbale dynamics and surface homeomorphisms : Frederic Leroux (Orsay Univesity Paris).

2) Fast periodic approximations and constructions by successive conjugations. Bassam Fayad (Paris 13) and Anatole Katok (PSU).

3) Quasi-peridoic cocycles with Liuovillean frequencies. Raphael Krikorian (Paris 6) and Jairo Bochi (PUC Rio de Janeiro).

4) Julia sets with positive measure. Xavier Buff (Toulouse) and Arnaud Cheritat (Toulouse).

To register, participants are kindly requested to fill the on-line form : http://tinyurl.com/ygnft8o

and mention whether they will need financial support. It is important to note that the deadline for registrations asking for financial support is December 1st 2009, while registration without financial support requested is open until December 15th.

The school will consist of four courses :

-"Transfinite diameter and equilibrium measures", by S. BOUCKSOM (Paris)
-"Lee-Yang zeros and 2D rational dynamics", by M. LYUBICH (Stony Brook)
-"Complex methods in symplectic topology", by A. SUKHOV (Lille)
-"Bergman kernels in complex geometry", by D. VAROLIN (Stony Brook)

Everyone interested is welcome. We may have some funds to partially support PhD students and PostDocs, don't hesitate to contact us.


The school will be followed up by KAWA 1.1, a

Workshop in Complex Analysis and Geometry
January 29-31, 2010
in Albi, FRANCE

We welcome proposals for talks for this workshop.

The beautiful town of Albi (http://www.albi-tourisme.fr/fr/default.asp) is one hour drive (or train ride) away from Toulouse. The conference will take place in the "Grand Hotel d'Orleans" (http://hotel-orleans-albi.com/), not far from the train station.

More information can be found on the website
http://www.imub.ub.es/kawa10
where you are encouraged to register. The deadline for registering is October 15.

The organizers,

Vincent Guedj (Aix-Marseille)
Joaquim Ortega-Cerda (Barcelona)
Pascal J. Thomas (Toulouse)

The scope of the conference will be wide, but it will emphasize specific problems in dynamical systems, smooth ergodic theory, and related topics, including differential geometry, group theory and number theory, to name a few, that have seen much progress, but where significant problems vital to the field remain open. Specific examples are the Katok entropy rigidity conjecture for geodesic flows of negatively curved manifolds, the Boltzmann ergodic hypothesis, Liouvillean phenomena, the construction of metrics with ergodic geodesic flow, smooth rigidity of actions of abelian groups of higher rank. We will honor Anatole Katok on the occasion of his 65th

The conference will act as a catalyst for research in mathematics and its applications, providing a venue for established scholars to interact - not only with each other, but also with the junior scholars that will play an essential role now and in the years to come. Accordingly, there will be an emphasis on involving young mathematicians in dynamical systems.

Limited support for participants is expected to be available. Recent recipients of doctoral degrees, women, and members of traditionally underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply.

For more information and registration please consult
http://www.math.psu.edu/katok_s/AK65/home.html


Scientific Program Committee
Boris Hasselblatt
Francois Ledrappier
Yakov Pesin
Jean-Paul Thouvenot
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

Organizing Committee
Bassam Fayad
Raphael Krikorian
Patrice Le Calvez
Feliks Przytycki
Jean Francois Quint

The lectures will begin Friday at 3 pm with the department colloquium and finish at lunchtime on Sunday. This year's speakers will be

Lewis Bowen, Texas A&M University
Alex Clark, University of Leicester
Moon Duchin, University of Michigan
Alexander Fish, University of Wisconsin
Bryna Kra, Northwestern University
Justin Moore, Cornell University
Kevin Pilgrim, Indiana University
Roland Roeder, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Christian Rosendal, University of Illinois at Chicago
Nimish Shah, Ohio State University

FUNDING. The conference is funded by an NSF grant, administered through IUPUI (Bruce Kitchens, PI, and Rodrigo Perez, Co-PI). A portion of the grant has been reserved to assist participants with travel and accomodation.  As our funding is limited, we ask that you cover your own expenses if you have other sources.

Local organizing committee:

Laura DeMarco
Alex Furman
Steve Hurder

All lectures will be at the Mathematics Department (McAllister building) at the Penn State University Park campus.

The second MICHAEL BRIN PRIZE in DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS will be awarded on Saturday, October 31. Saturday afternoon session will feature the award ceremony and two talks dedicated to the award winning work and other achievements of the winner.

WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS
Friday, October 30 afternoon session will feature four talks on recent advances in celestial mechanics and Hamiltonian dynamics.

Several full length talks will be given by very young mathematicians who will present their outstanding recent work.

This workshop has been hosted each fall since 1991 by Penn State University and each spring since 1992 by the University of Maryland, and is jointly sponsored by the two institutions. The basic funding of the workshop is provided by an NSF grant. Additional funding for this meeting, is provided by the Center for Dynamics and Geometry at Penn State.

Organizers:
Anatole Katok katok_a@math.psu.edu
Svetlana Katok katok_s@math.psu.edu

Requests for reimbursement of local expenses will be considered by the organizers. If you decided to participate in the conference, please, retrieve the Registration Form http://www.math.psu.edu/dynsys/registration09.html from the website at: http://www.math.psu.edu/dynsys/DW2009/home.html.

If you plan to participate, please register online by filling the online form

Scientific Committee:
Louis Boutet de Monvel (Univ. Paris 6)
Dominique Cerveau (Univ. Rennes 1)
Stefano Marmi (SNS Pisa)
Takahiro Kawai (RIMS, Kyoto Univ.)

Organizing Committee:
Ovidiu Costin (Ohio State Univ.), costin@math.ohio-state.edu
Frederic Fauvet (Univ. Strasbourg), frederic.fauvet@gmail.com
Frederic Menous (Univ. Paris-Sud Orsay), Frederic.Menous@math.u-psud.fr
David Sauzin (CNRS Paris-SNS Pisa), sauzin@imcce.fr


Scientific themes:
- Local analytic dynamics
- Small denominator problems
- Divergent series, transseries, summability theories
- Resurgent functions, alien calculus, mould calculus
- Analytic PDEs
- Classification of singular geometric structures
- Applications to semi-classical quantum mechanics and perturbative Quantum Field Theory

CRM de Giorgi, affiliated with the Scuola Normale Superiore, is situated in the center of Pisa; an international airport, operating both regular and lowcost airlines is on the outskirts of the town. For practical information, see
http://www.crm.sns.it/informat ion.html

If you plan to attend the conference, we advise that you book your room far in advance (the staff of the CRM can, on request, provide  the registered participants with a list of hotels which have rates related to its activities; you may write to  crm@crm.sns.it or sauzin@imcce.fr).

Meals at the nearby Scuola Normale's cafeteria will be offered to all the participants. We might be able to provide financial support for the accommodation of some participants.

Please don't hesitate to contact any of us for additional information you might wish to have and feel free to communicate this announcement around you.

We very much look forward to seeing you next October, for this meeting on  Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in Tuscany!

Organizers: K. Baranski, F. Przytycki (chair), S. van Strien.

Scientific Committee:
Kari Astala, Walter Bergweiler, Antonios Bisbas, Nuria Fagella, Carsten Lunde Petersen, Feliks Przytycki, Stanislav Smirnov, Sebastian van Strien, Michel Zinsmeister

Topics include interval and holomorphic dynamics, analysis on metric spaces, scaling limits, and other topics of CODY (not only conformal). Every participant is invited to give a short communication or to present a poster.

Minicourses will be given by by Piotr Hajlasz, Pekka Koskela, Grzegorz Swiatek, Xavier Tolsa and Michel Zinsmeister.

There is some support available to cover local expenses for graduate/Phd students and postdocs.

Dynamical Numbers: Interplay between Dynamical Systems and Number Theory
1 May - 31 July, 2009
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn

If you would like to participate, then please send a message to Sergii Koliada or Pieter Moree. We hope to be able to provide accomodation for all participants. We can provide financial support to a few more participants. It is also planned to invite some excellent young scientists (Postdocs, Junior Faculty), who want to carry out their research and to take part in the activity. If you are interested please write to Sergii Koliada or Pieter Moree.

Organizers:
Henk Bruin (H.Bruin@surrey.ac.uk)
Ian Melbourne (I.Melbourne@surrey.ac.uk)

International Conference: Geometry, Dynamics, Integrable systems
2 –7 September 2008
Mathematical Institute SANU (Belgrade, Serbia)

Wesleyan Dynamical Systems Conference
October 13-14, 2007
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Conference in honor of Ethan Coven

Speakers

Louis Block,
Alexander Blokh,
Hillel Furstenberg,
Aimee Johnson,
Bryna Kra,
Bruce Kitchens,
Brian Marcus,
Michal Misiurewicz,
Zbigniew Nitecki,
Karl Petersen,
Aimee Wilkinson
James Yorke.

Organizing Committee

International Conference on DYNAMICAL METHODS
AND MATHEMATICAL MODELLING
Valladolid, Spain
September 18 - 22, 2007


The conference will focus on recent advances in dynamical methods which are relevant in the theory of
-ordinary, partial, functional and stochastic- differential equations. Special attention will be paid to the applications in biology, engineering, physics and other applied sciences.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

• Tomas Caraballo, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
• Amadeu Delshams, Universitat Politecnica de Catalua, Spain
• Peter Kloeden, University of Frankfurt, Germany 
• Angel Jorba, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
• Sylvia Novo, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
• Carmen Nez, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain 
• Rafael Obaya, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
• Jose Real, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
  

Short talks in all areas of dynamical systems and  differential equations are welcome, and a limited number of financial grants for graduate and doctoral  students are available. The deadline for preregistration and submission of abstracts is March 31, 2007.

Please visit the web site

http://wmatem.eis.uva.es/~dm07/

for further information and periodic updates on the Conference program, on-line pre-registration, registration fees, submission of abstract, grant application and accommodation facilities.

Geometry, Rigidity and Group actions
A conference in honor of Robert J. Zimmer's 60th Birthday
September 7 - 9, 2007 University of Chicago
 

International conference ANALYSIS and SINGULARITIES
Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia,
August 20-24, 2007

Dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Vladimir Igorevich Arnold

Topics in Algebraic Geometry, Singularity Theory, Differential Equations, Mechanics, Hydrodynamics, Number Theory.

Organizing committee:

Homogeneous Flows, Moduli Spaces and Arithmetic
June 11 - July 6th
Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, Pisa, Italy

The CMI school will take place whithin the framework of a research trimester on dynamical systems and number theory at the De Giorgi Center. The trimester begins on Apr 16. Please refer to the De Giorgi Center for more information about the trimester  (www.crm.sns.it).

Summer School Program Description

Designed for graduate students and mathematicians within five years of their Ph.D., the program is an introduction to the theory of flows on homogeneous spaces, moduli spaces and their many applications.

These flows give concrete examples of dynamical systems with highly interesting behavior and a rich and powerful theory. They are also a source of many interesting problems and conjectures. Furthermore, understanding the dynamics of such concrete system lends to numerous applications in number theory and geometry regarding equidistributions, diophantine approximations, rational billiards and automorphic forms.

The school will consist of three weeks of foundational courses and one week of mini-courses focusing on more advanced topics.

Foundational Courses

The following 3 week lecture series will be held:

     ● "Unipotent flows and applications" Alex Eskin & Dmitry Kleinbock
     ● "Diagonalizable actions and arithmetic applications" Manfred Einsiedler & Elon Lindenstrauss
     ● "Interval exchange maps and translation surfaces" Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

Shorter courses will be given by Svetlana Katok and Shahar Mozes. Advanced minicourse will be given by Nalini Anantharaman, Artur Avila, Hee Oh, Akshay Venkatesh and others.
 

Conference in honor of G. Henkin

Erwin Schrodinger Insitute, Vienna
Special semester, February - July 2007

The Erwin Schrodinger Institute (ESI) will host a special semester devoted to AMENABILITY during the period end of February 2007 - mid-July 2007.

The organizers are:
Anna Erschler (Orsay, France) anna.erschler@math.u-psud.fr,
Vadim A. Kaimanovich (Bremen, Germany) v.kaimanovich@iu-bremen.de,
Klaus Schmidt (Vienna, Austria) klaus.schmidt@univie.ac.at


The notion of amenability is a natural generalization of finiteness or compactness. It was introduced in 1929 by J. von Neumann (following the work of Hausdorff, Banach and Tarski; in 1955 M. M. Dye first called it amenability). Amenable groups are those which admit an invariant mean (rather than an invariant probability measure, which is the case for finite or compact groups). This classical notion has been generalized in many directions and currently plays an important role in various areas, such as dynamical systems, von Neumann and C*-algebras, operator K-theory, geometric group theory, random walks, etc.

The semester will be centered around several interconnected research subjects at the crossroads of Analysis, Algebra, Geometry, Dynamics and Probability. More specifically, we are going to discuss the following topics:
 

○ groups of intermediate growth, non-elementary amenable groups;

○ self-similar groups and iterated monodromy groups of rational maps;

○ graphed equivalence relations and amenability; L2 cohomology;

○ amenable groupoids; topological amenability of boundary actions;

○ amenability at infinity; Baum--Connes and Novikov conjectures;

○ amenability and rigidity; bounded cohomology;

○ amenable algebras;

○ quasi-isometric classification of amenable groups, geometricity of various group properties;

○ Dixmier's conjecture on characterization of amenability in terms of unitarizable representations;

○ generalizations of amenability: A-T-menabilty (Haagerup property); groups without free subgroups; superamenability;

○ random walks and other probabilistic models on amenable groups;

○ quantitative invariants of amenable groups: growth, isoperimetry, asymptotic entropy, etc.;

Statistical Mechanics Conference

97th STATISTICAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE 
 

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, HILL CENTER, ROOM 114

SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY, MAY 6-8, 2007

To celebrate the achievements and birthdays of John Cardy, Juerg Frohlich and Tom Spencer.

A tentative partial list of speakers:

M. Aizenman, N. Andrei, G. Ben-Arous, W. Bialek, A. Bovier, L. Bunimovich, A. Chakraborty, M. Disertori, M. Douglas, P. Fendley, R. Fernandez, J. Garrahan, G. Giacomin, S. Goldstein, F. Guerra,
F. Hansen, J. Harnad, E. Heller, K. Hepp, A. Jaffe, A. Klein, H. Koch, U. Landman, G. Lawler, E. Lieb, A. Libchaber, A. Ludwig, G. Mussardo, L. Pastur, H. Pinson, B. Schlein, T. Seppalainen, Y. Sinai, B. Simon, S. Smirnov U. Tauber, B. Vollmayr-Lee, P. Wiegmann, H.T. Yau, S. Zamolodchikov, R. Ziff, M. Zurnbauer.

The Clay Research Conference, to be held May 14-15 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, inaugurates an expanded format for the Institute's annual meeting.

The conference consists of a two-day series of lectures on recent research developments and presentation of the Clay Research Awards.

The conference will be held at the Harvard University Science Center, Lecture Hall C.

The schedule of talks is attached, and more information can be found at  http://www.claymath.org.

A conference honoring Svetlana Katok's birthday will take place at the Department of Mathematics, Penn State (University Park) on May 5-6, 2007.

Speakers:

Keith Burns (Northwestern University)
Krystyna Kuperberg (Auburn University)
Elon Lindenstrauss (Princeton University)
Gregory Margulis (Yale University)
John Millson (University of Maryland)
Peter Sarnak (Princeton University) - to be confirmed
Richard Schwartz (Brown University)
Audrey Terras (UC San Diego)

Organizers:

Tatyana Foth (University of Western Ontario)
Omri Sarig (Penn State)
Ilie Ugarcovici (DePaul University)

In celebration of achievements (and birthdays) of Elihu Abrahams and Philip W. Anderson.

There will be one Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference next academic year. It will be held at Indiana U. Purdue U. Indianapolis, Friday-Sunday, October 13-15, 2006.

The meeting will follow the traditional format. The first talk will start at 3pm Friday and the last talk will end by 12:30 pm Sunday.

The webpage of the meeting is http://www.math.iupui.edu/~mmisiure/mwds06/index.html

Organizers:

Will Geller <wgeller@math.iupui.edu>
Bruce Kitchens <bkitchens@math.iupui.edu>
Michal Misiurewicz <mmisiure@math.iupui.edu>
Rodrigo Perez <rperez@math.iupui.edu>

October 6-8, 2006
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
The aim of this workshop is to promote interdisciplinary discussion among researchers working in areas related to dynamics, chaos and their applications. New results will be presented. It is our intention that the talks be accessible to a wide audience.

Confirmed speakers include:

• A. Bulsara (SPAWAR Systems Center)
• L. Bunimovich (Georgia Tech)
• D. Cai (Courant Institute, NYU)
• P. Chaikin (Department of Physics, NYU)
• Y. Couder (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
• S. Gunturk (Courant Institute, NYU)
• Yu. Ilyashenko (Cornell University)
• L. Kadanoff (University of Chicago)
• V. Kaloshin (Cal Tech)
• K. Khanin (University of Toronto, Canada)
• S. Leibler (Rockefeller University)
• A. Majda (Courant Institute, NYU)
• D. Pine (Department of Physics, NYU)
• C. Radin (University of Texas)
• D. Ruelle (IHES, France)
• M. Shelley (Courant Institute, NYU)
• Ya. Sinai (Princeton University)
• M. Spano (NSWC Carderock Laboratory)
• L.-S. Young (Courant Institute, NYU)
• G.M. Zaslavsky (Physics, NYU and Courant Institute)

This workshop is organized by L.-S. Young and G.M. Zaslavsky.

Organizers:

• Mikhail Kapranov (Yale University, USA)
• Sergiy Kolyada (Institute of Mathematics, Ukraine)
• Yuri Manin (MPIM, Germany)
• Pieter Moree (MPIM, Germany)
• Leonid Potyagailo (Universite de Lille 1, France)

 Alexander (Sasha) Reznikov (1960-2003) was a brilliant mathematician who died unfortunately very early. This conference in his remembrance focuses on topics Sasha made a contribution to.

In particular:
1. Hyperbolic, Differential and Complex Geometry.
2. Geometric group theory.
3. Three dimensional topology.
4. Dynamical systems.

Scope of this conference:

Anomalous transport phenomena such as sub- and superdiffusion, non-Gaussian probability distributions, aging and dynamical localization form a rapidly growing research area within nonequilibrium statistical physics. Understanding these processes demands for establishing new cross-links between non-Markovian microscopic correlations and unusual statistical properties on macroscopic scales. This requires to combine methods from dynamical systems theory, stochastic processes and disordered systems. The seminar will provide a unique opportunity to learn about topics ranging from mathematical foundations of anomalous dynamics to the most recent experimental results in this field. It attempts to initiate new cross-disciplinary collaborations between scientists from the above research areas and to foster fruitful interactions between theorists and experimentalists working on anomalous transport.

Scientific key topics:

Applications: Experimental results for anomalous transport under nonequilibrium conditions such as anomalous dispersion in flows, transport in porous media, aging in glassy systems, anomalous diffusion of biological cells and in cell membranes, surface diffusion, anomalous distributions in granular media and in plasma physics

Theoretical methods and models: nonhyperbolic dynamics, intermittent deterministic transport, disordered dynamical systems, Levy walks, Levy flights, random walks in random environments, dynamical phase transitions, classical dynamical localization, thermodynamic formalism, continuous time random walks, fractional calculus

Confirmed invited speakers:

R.Artuso (Como), E.Barkai (Bar-Ilan), C.Beck (London), A.V.Chechkin (Kharkov), D.Del-Castillo-Negrete (Oak Ridge), P.Dieterich (Dresden), T.Geisel (Goettingen), R.Gorenflo (Berlin), R.Hilfer (Stuttgart), J.Kaerger (Leipzig), R.Kimmich (Ulm), J.Klafter (Tel Aviv), W.Kob (Montpellier), A.Kusumi (Kyoto), E.Lutz (Ulm), R.Metzler (Copenhagen), M.J.Saxton (Davis), M.Shlesinger (Arlington), S.Tasaki (Tokio), G.Vogl (Vienna), A.Vulpiani (Rome), S.Yuste (Badajoz)

The conference will provide a unique international forum for the international community of mathematicians and scientists working in analysis, differential equations, dynamical systems, and their applications to real world problems in the forms of modeling and computation. The aim of this conference is to bring together the worldwide senior experts and young researchers as well to this beautiful city, Poitiers, to report recent achievements, exchange ideas, and address future trends of research, in a relaxing and stimulating environment. This is the first time ever for an AIMS conference to be held in the European continent.

Sponsors: American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and University of Poitiers.

Topics: The conference covers all the major research areas in analysis, dynamics and applications including modeling and computations.

Plenary speakers: Alberto Bressan (USA), Odo Diekmann (Netherlands), Pierre-Louis Lions (France), Alexander Mielke (Germany), Masayasu Mimura (Japan), Peter Polacik (USA), Patrizia Pucci (Italy), Bjrn Sandstede (UK), Lan Wen (China)

The conference "Views on ODEs" (VODE2006) will celebrate the 65th birthday of Professors Arrigo Cellina and James A. Yorke and aims to bring together those enrolled in research activities related with ordinary differential equations, differential inclusions and their applications.

Main Topics:
Dynamical systems; Bifurcations; Invariant measures; Chaotic attractors; Prevalence; Population dynamics; Markov operators; Semigroups; Viscosity solutions; Hamilton-Jacobi equations; Hyperbolic systems; Optimal control and differential inclusions; Variational and topological methods.

Vasile Staicu - Chairman of the Organizing Committee
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We have the following confirmed invited speakers

• Zvi Artstein - Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
  
• Jean-Pierre Aubin - CREA - Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
  
• Stefano Bianchini - SISSA-ISAS, Trieste, Italy
  
• Alberto Bressan - The Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia, USA
  
• Constantin Corduneanu - The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
  
• Francesco S. De Blasi - Universite degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
  
• Helene Frankowska - CREA - Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
  
• Andrzej Lasota - University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  
• Jean Mawhin - Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  
• Stefan Mirica - University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
  
• Josef Myjak - Universite degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
  
• Boris S. Mordukhovich - Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
  
• Rafael Ortega - University of Granada, Granada, Spain
  
• Mitsuharu Otani -Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
  
• Biagio Ricceri - University of Catania, Catania, Italy
  
• Nikolaos Papageorgiou - National Technical University of Athens , Greece
  
• Giulio Pianigiani - University of Florence, Florence, Italy

The main themes of the conference will be

1. Dynamics of rational maps in several variables.
2. Holomorphic foliations.
3. Hyperbolicity.

• classical numerical methods for dynamical ODEs and PDEs,
• algorithms for rigorous numerics of dynamical systems,
• topological methods of dynamical systems as tools in developing numerical algorithms,
• numerical algorithms for topological invariants,
• KAM theory and rigorous numerics,
• variational methods,
• applications to celestial mechanics,
• numerical experiments in dynamics.

The 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields will be held from January 16 (Monday) to January 18 (Wednesday), 2006 at the Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. Honolulu is located on the island of Oahu. "Oahu" is often nicknamed "the gathering place". The 2006 Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields will be the gathering place for academicians and professionals from statistics and mathematics related fields from all over the world.

The main goal of the 2006 Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various statistics and/or mathematics related fields from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. An additional goal of the conference is to provide a place for academicians and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests related to statistics and mathematics to meet and interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.

The 2005 conference was a great success! Last year's conference was attended by more than 200 participants representing more than 25 countries.

The conference will be devoted to Complex Function Theory, Quasiconformal Mappings, Complex Dynamical Systems and their Applications with special sessions in honor of

D. Aharonov, L. Aizenberg, S. Krushkal and U. Srebro

The theme of this workshop is to discuss recent developments in geometric dynamics with singularities, and a number of related topics with the particular goal of faciliting informal interactions among participants in different areas. Aspects include:

* Interval exchanges and piecewise isometries
* Geometric methods for nonhyperbolic systems
* Topological and measure dynamics
* Substitution systems defined by geometric systems
* Algebraic dynamics
* Applications in physical and other systems

The "Fourth Meeting on Celestial Mechanics - CELMEC IV" will take place in San Martino al Cimino (Viterbo, Italy) during the period 11-16 September 2005. Updated information is available from the web site at http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/celmec

The meeting will cover the following subjects:

- PERTURBATION THEORIES
(dynamical systems, their stability and evolution);

- SOLAR SYSTEM AND STELLAR SYSTEMS
(dynamics of solar system bodies and of stellar interactions);

- FLIGHT DYNAMICS
(motion of spacecrafts for near-Earth and interplanetary missions).

The organizing committee is composed by
* Alessandra Celletti - Dipt. di Matematica, Univ. di Roma "Tor Vergata"
* Andrea Milani - Dipt. di Matematica, Universita' di Pisa
* Ettore Perozzi - Studi e Progetti Innovativi - Telespazio Spa, Roma
* Giovanni B. Valsecchi - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - IASF, Roma

This workshop/school on "spectrum" of classical and quantum systems, both in the sense of the Laplacian and of dynamical transfer operators, as well as the links of this spectrum with (dynamical) zeta functions, is intended not only for beginners (including PhD students) but also to mathematicians or physicists who wish to learn the basics of the theory and/or the latest developments.

• classical numerical methods for dynamical ODEs and PDEs,
• algorithms for rigorous numerics of dynamical systems,
• topological methods of dynamical systems as tools in developing numerical algorithms,
• numerical algorithms for topological invariants,
• KAM theory and rigorous numerics,
• variational methods,
• applications to celestial mechanics,
• numerical experiments in dynamics.

This conference celebrates the mathematical legacy of Lars Ahlfors and Lipman Bers. There will be 12 one-hour plenary addresses.

we are preparing a small spring school on some topics of complex dynamics. It will be held in Universitat de Barcelona, starting on the morning of May 9 (Monday) and ending at noon on May 13 (Friday). It is meant for PhD students (or recent PhDs) in complex dynamics or related areas and it will consist of 3 mini courses of 5 hours each and student talks. The three mini courses are the following:

1. The Escaping Set of a Transcendental Meromorphic Function by Phil Rippon (Open University, UK)

2. On the Moduli Spaces of Attracting Dynamics (tentative) by Carsten Petersen (Roskilde University, DK)

3. Infinitesimal Thurston Rigidity and the Fatou-Shishikura Inequality by Adam Epstein (Warwick University, UK)

Ian Stewart, Warwick            Phil Holmes, Princeton

John Guckenheimer, Cornell      Marty Golubitsky, Houston

Mike Field, Houston             Pete Ashwin, Exeter

Paul Bressloff, Utah            Jack Cowan, Chicago

Toby Elmhirst, Houston          Bard Ermentrout, Pittsburgh

Kreso Josic, Houston            Nancy Kopell, Boston

Jerry Marsden, Caltech          Matt Nicol, Houston

Lou Pecora, Naval Research Lab  Jon Rubin, Pittsburgh

Mike Thompson, Boston           Andrew Torok, Houston

This event will be a continuation and an extension of the bi-annual Americas Conference Series on Differential Equations and Nonlinear Analysis, which started in 1994 and has already had five meetings held in Mexico, Brazil, US, Venezuela, and Canada. Its main goal will be to promote the interaction between the analytical and dynamical studies of evolutionary equations on the American continent. The core of the program will consist of a series of intensive mini-courses, during the first week, followed by complementary lectures, talks, short communications, and discussions on latest developments, during the second week.

• Dynamics of Nonlinear Waves.
  
• Fractal Geometry, Number Theory, and Dynamical Systems
  
• Geometric Structures in Dynamics
  
• Mathematical Fluid Dynamics