Dynamical Systems and Statistical Physics Seminar

Autumn Term 2008

Time:  Tuesday at 4pm; tea is available from 3.15pm in the adjacent common room.
Location:  Room 103, first floor of the Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizer: Franco Vivaldi (f.vivaldi@qmul.ac.uk)

Date	Speaker	Title
23 Sep	Costantino Tsallis (Rio)	Additive and nonadditive entropies and the foundations of statistical mechanics
30 Sep	Franco Vivaldi (Queen Mary)	Pseudo-hyperbolic points in piecewise isometric systems
07 Oct	Ian Morris (Warwick)	Pythagorean triples and thermodynamical formalism
14 Oct	Edmund Harriss (Imperial)	Rauzy Fractals from PV (Pisot) to Non-PV
21 Oct	Julien Tailleur (Edinburgh)	Fluctuations of Chaoticity: A Statistical Mechanical Approach.
28 Oct	Kit Nair (Liverpool)	Subsequence pointwise ergodic theorems
04 Nov	Lina Avramidou (Surrey)	Ergodic averages along polynomial sequences and optimization
11 Nov	Freddy Bouchet (Nice)	Out of equilibrium statistical mechanics of two dimensional and geophysical turbulent flows
18 Nov	Robert Szalai (Bristol)	Resonances in a piecewise-smooth system
25 Nov	Alessandro Astolfi (Imperial)	Nonlinear observer design
02 Dec	James Montaldi (Manchester)	Why is zero momentum special in Hamiltonian bifurcations?
09 Dec	Tassos Bountis (Patras)	Order and chaos in multi-dimensional Hamiltonian systems
12 Dec special event	Oscar Bandtlow Oliver Jenkinson (Queen Mary)	One-Day Ergodic Theory Meeting (supported by the LMS)
16 Dec	Shaun Stevens (UEA)	Orbit growth for arithmetic dynamical systems