UNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE
The Nonlinear Centre
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1996| Back to: | Dynamical Systems seminars |
| NLC |
| 10th October 2001 | Gabriel Paternain | Dynamics and geometry of geodesic flows | |
| (DPMMS) | Introductory seminar at 3pm | ||
| 17th October 2001 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| 24th October 2001 | Mark Pollicott | Ergodic properties of linear actions by 2x2 matrices | |
| (Manchester) | Introductory seminar at 3pm | ||
| 31st October 2001 | Simon Laughlin | Energy, dynamics, stochasticity, information and brain design | |
| (Zoology) | |||
| 7th November 2001 | Pierre Collet | Recurrence times and closest returns for unimodal maps | |
| (Ecole Polytechnique) | Introductory seminar at 3pm | ||
| 14th November 2001 | Peter Littlewood | Dynamics of charge density waves | |
| (Cavendish Laboratory) | |||
| 21st November 2001 | Oleg Kozlovski | Schwarzian derivative in the real 1D dynamics | |
| (Warwick) | Introductory seminar at 3pm | ||
| 28th November 2001 | Howard Levine | A model for tumor angiogenesis: from necrosis to vascularization | |
| (Iowa State / Newton Inst) |
| *MONDAY* 29 May | Mark Holland:
(Warwick) |
Physical measures, strange attractors and hyperbolic towers |
| *TUESDAY* 13 June# | I Vladimirov:
(University of Brisbane, visiting QMWC, London) |
Branching processes and discretized unimodal mappings of the interval |
| 15 June | Greg King:
(Warwick) |
Can effective diffusion coefficients be extracted from symmetry measures? |
# A joint Dynamical Systems/Probability seminar to be held at 3.15pm, seminar room 12, CMS (pavilion D).
| THURSDAY 20 January* | Jon Keating:
(Bristol) |
Arithmetical symmetries of quantum torus maps |
| 27 January | Kostya Khanin:
(Isaac Newton Institute) |
Multidimensional continued fractions |
| TUESDAY 1 February** | Richard Sharp:
(Manchester University) |
Closed geodesics and periods of automorphic forms |
| 10 February | Paul Glendinning: POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
(UMIST) |
Blow-out bifurcations in coupled maps |
| 17 February | Wendy Hines:
(DPMMS) |
Delay differential equations |
| 24 February | Mark Pollicott:
(Manchester University) |
Calculating dynamical invariants |
| WEDNESDAY 8 March*** | KING'S COLLEGE RESEARCH CENTRE: POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE | TUXEDO DAY |
| WEDNESDAY 8 March**** | FOURTH SOUTHEASTERN BIFURCATION WORKSHOP: | Global dynamics in symmetric systems |
| 9 March | Armen Shirikyan:
(Heriot-Watt University) |
Ergodicity for the randomly forced 2D Navier-Stokes equations |
* NB: This seminar will be held at 3.30pm in the Syndics Room, DAMTP.
** NB: This seminar will be held at 2.00pm in Room 1, Isaac Newton
Institute. For more information about the Newton Institute seminars, please
contact Mark Pollicott at mp281@newton.cam.ac.uk
*** NB: For more information about the TUXEDO meeting, please contact
Robert MacKay at rm214@damtp.cam.ac.uk
or telephone (01223)339733.
**** NB: For more information about this workshop, please contact Alastair
Rucklidge at A.M.Rucklidge@damtp.cam.ac.uk
or telephone (01223)337838.
| 7 October | Michael Yampolsky:
(IHES) |
Renormalization for critical circle maps |
| 14 October | Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer:
(DPMMS) |
Some remarks on the Lyapunov's Method |
| 21 October | Robert MacKay:
(DAMTP) |
Quantum breathers |
| FRIDAY 29 OCTOBER* | Tim Hunt:
(DAMTP) |
NLC Informal Seminar: The triple linkage - a nice system that was almost uniformly hyperbolic |
| 4 November | David Broomhead:
(UMIST) |
Modelling digital communications using iterated function systems |
| 11 November | Matt Keeling:
(KCRC and Zoology) |
Heterogeneity in Childhood Diseases |
| 18 November | Sinisa Slijepcevic:
(Zagreb) |
Construction of invariant measures of Lagrangian maps |
| 25 November | Gabriela Gomes:
(Warwick) |
Black-eye patterns in thin domains |
* Please note that there is no seminar on Thursday 28th October. Instead there will be NLC Informal Seminar on Friday 29th, 12.00noon in seminar room 1, DPMMS.
| *Tues 20 April | S Bolotin:
(Moscow) |
Regularisation and topological entropy for spatial n-centre problem |
| Tues 27 April | Y Aizawa:
(Waseda, Tokyo) |
Long-time tails in N-body Hamiltonian systems |
| Tues 04 May | P Swinnerton-Dyer:
(DPMMS) |
Two systems of third order ODEs |
| Tues 18 May | O Kozlovski:
(Warwick) |
Hausdorff dimension of one-dimensional attractors |
| Tues 15 June | A Fokas:
(Imperial) |
Boundary value problems, the Ehrenpreis principle and Lax pairs |
(NB: * 5pm if DAMTP staff meeting runs over)
| 2 February | PA Glendinning:
(Queen Mary and Westfield College, London) |
Mode-locking and strange non-chaotic sets in quasi- periodically forced circle maps |
| 9 February | C Chandre:
(Dijon) |
Renormalization for Hamiltonian systems |
| 16 February | CT Sparrow:
(Stats Lab) |
Dynamics of continuous time fictitious play |
| 23 February | E Risler:
(Nice) |
On the instability of extended cycles |
| 2 March | V Baladi:
(Geneva) |
On the spectrum of weakly coupled map lattices |
| 9 March | M Nicol:
(UMIST, Manchester) |
Dynamical systems with Euclidean symmetry |
| 13 October | Misha Bialy:
(Tel Aviv & DPMMS) |
Hamiltonian Systems without conjugate points and E.Hopf rigidity |
| 20 October | James Robinson:
(Warwick) |
One-dimensional maps approximating any chaotic dynamics |
| 27 October | Maurice Courbage:
(Paris VII) |
On the rate of decay of correlations in skew product dynamical systems of zero entropy |
| 3 November | Eric Lombardi:
(INLN) |
Asymptotics beyond all orders and bifurcations |
| 10 November | Florian Wagener:
(Warwick) |
Unfolding the skew Hopf bifurcation |
| 17 November | Bernd Krauskopf:
(Bristol) |
Codimension-three unfoldings of resonant homoclinic bifurcations |
| 24 November | David Chillingworth:
(Southampton) |
Bifurcations from a 2-manifold |
| 1 December | Professor F M R Russell:
(Heriot-Watt University) |
Non-linear systems, mechanical analogues and mica |
| ! Tuesday !
21 April ! 5pm ! |
Vladimir Arnold:
(Moscow & Paris) |
Some problems in the theory of dynamical systems |
| 6 May | Stefano Luzzatto:
(Warwick) |
Lorenz attractors without invariant foliations |
| 13 May | Pierre Gaspard :
(Brussels) |
Microscopic chaos and the relaxation to macroscopic equilibrium |
| 20 May | Mike Proctor:
(DAMTP) |
Effect of noise on tranverse bifurcations near heteroclinic cycles |
| 27 May | TBA: |
| ! Tuesday !
20 January |
Gérard Iooss:
(Nice) |
Capillary and capillary-gravity 2D waves for two superposed fluid layers, one being of infinite depth |
| 28 January | Anatole Katok:
(Penn State) |
How regularity (C1 vs higher) affects the orbit growth of a dynamical system: results and open problems |
| 4 February | Gero Frieseke:
(Oxford) |
Stability of solitary waves and the failure of the ergodic hypothesis in anharmonic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chains |
| 11 February
! cancelled ! |
Mike Proctor:
(DAMTP) |
Effect of noise on tranverse bifurcations near heteroclinic cycles |
| 18 February | Boris Buffoni:
(Bath) |
On Stokes waves and their subharmonic bifurcations |
| 25 February | Ben Mestel:
(Exeter) |
Feigenbaum theory for unimodal maps with asymmetric critical point |
| 4 March | Jon Chapman:
(Oxford) |
Exponential asymptotics and Stokes lines in nonlinear difference equations |
| 11 March | Michele Bartucelli:
(Surrey) |
On the problem of positivity of solutions for a class of partial differential equations containing differential operators of order higher than the Laplacian |
| 15 October | Tom Bridges:
(Surrey) |
Instability of solitary waves and fronts |
| 22 October | Jean Bricmont:
(Louvain) |
Infinite-dimensional Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen measures |
| 29 October | Toby Hall:
(Liverpool) |
Dynamics implied by an invariant Cantor set |
| 5 November | Alan Champneys:
(Bristol) |
Homoclinic orbits to a saddle-centre and applications in nonlinear optics |
| 12 November | Yurii Suhov:
(DPMMS) |
A multi-dimensional continuous fractions theory |
| 19 November | Jack Carr:
(Heriot-Watt) |
The Becker-Doring Equations and the Lifshitz-Slyozov theory |
| 26 November | Michael Berry:
(Bristol) |
Levitrons and flying frogs |
| 3 December | David Rand:
(Warwick) |
Correlation equations for spatial ecology and evolution |
| THURSDAY
4 December, 12.00 |
Dmitri Anosov:
(Moscow) |
Flows on surfaces and related geometrical problems |
| 29 April | Alan Newell:
(Warwick) |
Natural patterns and their defects |
| 6 May | Nikolai Nekhoroshev:
(Moscow) |
Submanifolds of integrability of non-integrable Hamiltonian systems |
| 13 May | Serge Aubry:
(Saclay) |
Breather mobility and reactivity |
| 20 May | Anthony Quas:
(DPMMS)) |
They do it with mirrors |
| 27 May | Konstantin Khanin:
(Heriot-Watt) |
Burgers'equation and random Aubry-Mathertheory and applications |
| 3 June
CANCELLED |
Paul Mandel:
(Brussels) |
Antiphase dynamics in multimode lasers |
| 10 June | Roger Nussbaum:
(DPMMS) |
Periodic points of non-expansive maps |
| FRIDAY
17 January |
Peter Leach:
(Durban, Sth Africa) |
Singularity analysis of ordinary differential equations |
| 21 January | Peter Ashwin:
(Surrey) |
Chaotic dynamics of symmetric systems |
| 28 January | James Robinson:
(DAMTP) |
Global attractors: topology and finite-dimensional dynamics |
| 4 February | Jacques Furter:
(Brunel) |
Forced symmetry breaking and the buckling of elastic bodies: theory and applications |
| 11 February | Jonathan Swinton:
(Plant Sciences) |
Extinction times for spatial stochastic processes and the 1988 seal epidemic |
| WEDNESDAY
19 February CANCELLED |
Jacques Laskar:
(Bureau des Longitudes, Paris) |
Large scale chaos and the organisation of the solar system |
| MONDAY
24 February, INI,5pm |
David Ruelle:
(IHES) |
New theoretical ideas in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics |
| 25 February | Alastair Rucklidge:
(DAMTP) |
Instabilities of periodic orbits with spatio-temporal symmetries |
| 4 March | Sebastian van Strien:
(Warwick) |
A survey in complex dynamics |
| 11 March | Esa Jarvenpaa:
(St Andrews) |
SRB-measures for weakly coupled expanding maps |
| 15 October | Paul Bressloff:
(Loughborough) |
Nonlinear lattice dynamics and the anti-integrable limit |
| 22 October | Robert McLachlan:
(Massey, New Zealand & INI) |
Flows and maps preserving integrals and differential invariants |
| 29 October | Yunping Jiang:
(QC, New York) |
Transfer Operators, Renormalization Theory, and Zygmund Functions |
| 5 November | Yurii Suhov & Phil Hiemer:
(DPMMS) |
Billiards in polygons with point obstacles |
| 12 November | Bernard Schmitt:
(Dijon) |
Absolutely continuous invariant measures for expanding maps |
| 19 November | Jeroen Lamb:
(Warwick) |
K-Symmetry and return maps of space-time symmetric flows |
| 26 November | Rebecca Hoyle:
(DAMTP) |
Fronts in a nonvariational Ginzburg-Landau equation |
| 3 December | Peter Swinnerton-Dyer:
(DPMMS) |
Nosé equations |
| MONDAY 29 April | Gian-Luca Oppo:
(Strathclyde) |
Pattern Formation In Nonlinear Optics |
| 7 May | Jonathan Sherratt:
(Warwick) |
Oscillations and Chaos behind Predator-Prey Invasion |
| 14 May | Hans Henrik Rugh:
(Warwick) |
Scaling and chaos in the Classical Yang-Mills equations |
| THURSDAY 16 May | Hans-Rudolf Jauslin:
(Dijon) |
Floquet methods in quantum mechanics, overview and open problems |
| MONDAY 20 May | Michael Yakobson:
(Maryland) |
Sinai, Ruelle, Bowen measures for non-hyperbolic attractors |
| 21 May | Sergei Bolotin:
(Moscow) |
Variational criteria for nonintegrability of Hamiltonian systems |
| 28 May | Mark Pollicott:
(Manchester) |
Asymptotic Behaviour of Geodesic flows on negatively curved surfaces |
| THURSDAY 6 June, 11am | Sergei Kuksin:
(Moscow) |
On phase-portraits of NLS equations with applications to the turbulence problem |
| 28 April | TBA:
(TBA) |
TBA |
| 21 January | TBA:
(TBA) |
TBA |
| 29 October* | Tim Hunt:
(DAMTP) |
The triple linkage - a nice system that was almost uniformly hyperbolic |
* Please note this seminar will be held in ROOM 1, DPMMS.
| Fri 16 April | V Rothos:
(DAMTP) |
Study group on Arnold and Khesin's book, Topological methods in hydrodynamics |
| Fri 23 April | A Fathi:
(ENS-Lyon) |
Weak KAM solutions and Aubry-Mather theory |
| *Fri 30 April | P Walton:
(DAMTP) |
Slow manifolds |
| Fri 14 May | P Boyland:
(Florida) |
Topological analysis of fluid motions: stirring and point vortices |
| Fri 21 May | O Rath:
(Spivak) |
Classical Monte Carlo trajectory methods in atomic physics |
| Fri 18 June | Y Jiang:
(New York) |
Ruelle Theorem and the convergence speed of Ruelle-Perron-Frobenius operators |
| THURSDAY 1 JULY | V Gelfreich:
(Berlin) |
Splitting of a small separatrix loop near a saddle-center bifurcation in area-preserving maps |
(NB: * to be held in DAMTP Seminar Room B)
Please note also (1) Monday 7 June, 1-6pm, TUXEDO Day, Warwick and (2) The study group on Arnold and Khesin's book, Topological methods in hydrodynamics, will meet at 12 noon most Fridays, in the Syndics Lecture Room (except 30 April in Seminar Room B).
| Date TBA | Name TBA:
(From TBA) |
Title TBA |
| 16 October | Michael Tribelsky:
(Tokyo/Dresden) |
Pattern formation and transition to chaos in dissipative systems with additional symmetry |
| 23 October | Keith Briggs:
(Plant Sc.) |
Scaling in a map of the two-torus |
| 30 October | Andrew Burbanks:
(DPMMS&BRIMS) |
Renormalization for Siegel Discs |
| 20 November | Vassilis Rothos:
(DAMTP) |
Persistent homoclinic orbits in perturbed sine-Gordon equation |
| Fri 1 May, 12.00 | Mikhail Gordin :
(St Petersburg) |
Transversal Markov processes and mixing filtrations |
| Th 14 May, 11.00 | Taehoon Ahn: | Stable periodic solutions in arrays of weakly coupled bistable oscillators |
| Fri 31 July, 11.00 | Mauro Spicci: | Rotobreathers in Josephson junctions arrays |
| Th 6 August, 11.00 | David Daems: | Entropy production and phase space volume contraction |
| Th 20 August, 11.00 | Troy Lee:
(Caltech) |
Collective Forage Selection by Social Insect Societies |
| 29 January | Sinisa Slijepcevic: | Gradient dynamics and connecting orbits of twist diffeomorphisms |
| 5 February | Gero Friesecke:
(Oxford) |
Ground states of quantum many-body systems: what is known and how to prove it |
| 12 February | Richard Battye: | Bound states and dynamics in the Skyrme model |
| 19 February | Tassos Bountis:
(Patras) |
Breathers and Multibreathers in Discrete Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations |
| 5 March | Vikaas Sohal: | Long-range connections synchronize rather than spread oscillations in the brain |
| 12 March
! cancelled ! |
David Chillingworth:
(Southampton) |
Bifurcation from a 2-manifold of solutions |
| 16 October | Valery Tereshko: | Resonant control of dynamical systems |
| 23 October | Jan Hendrik Schmidt:
(Phil. of Sc.) |
Classical universes are perfectly predictable from local data |
| 30 October | Jose-Luis Marin: | Numerical calculations of breathers |
| 6 November | Carlo Laing: | Waves in rings of coupled oscillators |
| 13 November | Vieri Mastropietro:
(Roma) |
Some results about Holstein models |
| 20 November | Tim Hunt: | Constructing a flow with a Plykin Attractor |
| 27 November | Uzy Smilansky:
(Weismann) |
Billiards inside out |
| TUES 2 December,
3pm, room A |
Sergej Flach:
(Dresden) |
Acoustic breathers in 2d lattices |
| 4 December
Syndics Room |
Dmitri Anosov:
(Moscow) |
Flows on surfaces and related geometrical problems |
| 9 May | Andrey Shilnikov: | On blue-sky catastrophe model |
| 16 May | Makoto S. Watanabe: | Molecular dynamics and the effect of system size |
| 23 May | Richard Cushman: | The twisting tennis racket |
| Thursday
29 May |
Xin-chu Fu:
(Wuhang Institute, China) |
Infinite-dimensional linear dynamical systems with chaos |
| 6 June | Mark Venables:
(Innovation Centre, Sainsbury) |
Projects at Sainsbury's Innovation Centre |
| Tuesday 10 June | Roger Nussbaum :
(Rutgers) |
Periodic points of non-expansive maps |
| 13 June | David Stuart: | Superconducting vortices: adiabatic motion and periodic solutions |
| 17 January | Peter Leach: | Singularity analysis of ordinary differential equations |
| Monday 20 January, 9am | Albert Libchaber:
(Rockefeller U., NY) |
Molecular biology: the ultimate dynamical system |
| 31 January | John Dougherty: | Approaches to Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics |
| 7 February | Iuliana Oprea:
(Bucarest) |
Dynamics of convective dynamos: reversals and on-off intermittency |
| 14 February | Yurii Suhov: | Travelling waves (or what should replace them) for non-autonomous KPP equations |
| 21 February | Keith Briggs:
(Plant Science) |
Scaling in maps of the 2-torus |
| Tuesday 29 February | Swan Kim: | Localized Modes of Coherent Structures on a Chain |
| Tuesday 4 March, 1.30pm | Christopher Bose :
(Vancouver) |
On Invariant Densities for Piecewise Convex (not necessarily smooth) Interval Maps |
| 7 March | Alex Haro:
(Barcelona) |
Properties of an exact symplectomorphism using its primitive function |
| 17 October | Sinisa Slijepcevic: | Pulled Frenkel-Kontorova Chains |
| 24 October | Taehoon Ahn: | Separatrix map and anti-integrable limit |
| 31 October | Katie Glass: | Symmetries in Systems of Repelling Particles |
| 7 November | Robert MacKay: | Flux in volume-preserving systems with aperiodic time-dependence |
| 21 November | Yurii Suhov: | Deriving hydrodynamical equations from Hamiltonian dynamics |
| 28 November | Colin Sparrow: | Dynamics of non-expanding maps (and applications and related problems) |
| 4 December | Konstantin Rerikh:
(Dubna) |
Algebraic integrability of birational plane mappings (algebraic-geometry approach) |
| Tu 26 March, 11am | Vladimir Lazutkin:
(St Petersburg) |
Metric entropy of the standard map |
| We 27 March | Jim Meiss:
(Boulder) |
Exponentially small splitting of separatrices in the Suris Map |
| 11 April | Zahir Bishnani: | Forced dynamical systems |
| 18 April | Won Gyu Choe:
(Pohang, Korea) |
Dynamical approach to problems of Josephson junction arrays |
| 25 April | Carlo Laing: | Coupled Oscillators |
| 2 May | Mark Johnston: | Bifurcations in coupled map lattices |
| 9 May | Rua Murray: | Calculation of invariant measures in simple dynamical systems |
| 30 May | James Robinson: | Asymptotic behaviour of dissipative PDEs |
| 6 June | Jacques-Alexandre Sepulchre: | Persistence of periodic orbits of vector fields in Banach space; Application to localised oscillations in networks of oscillators |
| 1 August | Claude Baesens & Robert MacKay: | Exponential decay in space in a variety of situations |
Last updated on 6 July 2000