Midwest Dynamical System Seminar

Second Announcement
November 15 - 17, 1996
Northwestern University

The usual format will be followed, i.e first talk starts at 3pm Friday and last talk ends by 12:30pm Sunday.

Speakers:

Pau Atela, Smith College "Commuting Polynomials and Polynomials with same Julia Set"
Benson Farb, University of Chicago
David Fried, Boston University
Marian Gidean, SUNY at Buffalo "Discrete Conley Index for Non-Invariant Sets and Detection of Chaos"
Eugene Gutkin, University of Southern Calif
Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University
Michel Herman, Ecole Polytechnique (Paris)
Kenning Lu, Brigham Young University
Pat McSwiggen, University of Cincinnati
Jorge Sotomayor, University of Sao Paulo

Hotels:
Rooms have been reserved in the Orrington Hotel (800-843-6664).

Other hotels include the

Holiday Inn in Evanston (800-382-6786),
The Homestead (847-475-3300),
The Margarita European Inn in Evanston (847-869-2273),
The North Shore Hilton is 3 miles west (847-679-7000).

Also there are some dorm rooms available at

Seabury Seminary (847-328-9300) and
Garrett Seminary (847-866-3900) which are both both of which are essentially on the Northwestern Campus.
The YMCA in Evanston is nearby (847-475-7400).

For those of you driving there are two motels about six miles west on Waukegan Avenue (between Golf and Dempster) with cheaper prices:

Admiral Oasis Motel (847-965-4000) and
Grove Motel (847-966-0960). (Call for the price.)

Registration:
There is no preregistration nor registration fee.

Travel funds:
There is some travel funds available for graduate students and recent PhD. Have your advisor or senior researcher write a note to
mwds@math.nwu.edu

Web page:
For updated informations consult the web page
http://www.math.nwu.edu/~mwds

Organizers:

Keith Burns (travel funds), 847-491-3013, burns@math.nwu.edu
John Franks (speakers), 847-491-5548, john@math.nwu.edu
Clark Robinson, 847-3738, clark@math.nwu.edu
Don Saari, 847-491-5580, d_saari@math.nwu.edu
Jeff Xia (speakers), 847-491-5487, xia@math.nwu.edu