The Seminars take place on Tuesday afternoons and are held in the Mathematics Seminar Room (Room 103, first floor of the Mathematical Sciences Building). Tea is available from 3.00pm in the adjacent common room.

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Dynamical Systems Seminars - Spring Semester 2004

Tuesday 20th January 4pm — G. Poggiaspalla (Queen Mary and Marseille) — Self-similarity in piecewise isometries

Tuesday 27th January 4pm — Ursula Martin (Queen Mary and Cambridge) — talk cancelled

Tuesday 3rd February 4pm — Eddie Wilson (Bristol) — Length on Dynamics of Highway Traffic

Tuesday 10th February 4pm — John Roberts (University of New South Wales, Sydney)— Symmetries and reversing symmetries of planar polynomial automorphisms over a (finite) field

Tuesday 17th February 4pm — P.V.E. McClintock (Lancaster University) — Nonlinear dynamics of the cardiovascular system

Tuesday 24th February 4pm — Bruno Cessac (INLS, Nice)— A dynamical system approach to Self-Organized Criticality

Wednesday 25th February 4pm— Tassos Bountis (Patras) — talk cancelled

Tuesday 2nd March 4pm — M.C. Mackey (McGill University) — Mathematical Models of Gene Regulation

Tuesday 9th March 4pm — N.Kenny (UMIST) — Traffic reduction in information networks

Tuesday 16th March 4pm — J.S.W.Lamb (Imperial College) — Symmetric homoclinic tangles in reversible systems

Tuesday 23rd March 4pm — C.P. Dettmann (University of Bristol) — Periodic solutions of coupled Tchebyscheff maps

Tuesday 30th March 4pm — Hugo Touchette (Queen Mary) — Applications and ramifications of large deviations theory

Tuesday 29th June 4pm — K. Yagasaki (Bristol and Gifu, Japan) — Detection and Numerical Evidence of Fast Diffusion in Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Hamiltonian Systems with Saddle-Centres