Dynamical Systems and Statistical Physics Seminar

Spring Semester 2008

Time:  Tuesday at 4pm (except Special Seminars); tea is available from 3.15pm in the adjacent common room.
Location:  Mathematics Seminar Room (Room 103, first floor of the Mathematical Sciences Building)
Some general remarks: Everyone is invited to come to the seminar. Ideally, the talks should be directed towards discussions of present lines of research rather than covering as many details as possible in perfectly arranged presentations.
Organizer: Thomas Prellberg; if you want to be on the seminar's mailing list, or perhaps want to give a talk yourself. please email me at

Date	Speaker	Title
8 January	David Dunstan (QMUL)	Quenching of the Inversion Transition of Ammonia - A Classical or Quantum Problem?
15 January	Christian von Ferber (Coventry)	Metropolis public transport networks: simulations and empirical results
22 January	John Lowenstein (NYU)	Pseudochaotic Webs of Kicked Oscillator Maps
29 January	Phil Howard (QMUL)	Continuity properties of transport coefficients in simple maps
5 February	Manjula Samarasinghe (QMUL)	Quasi-Fuchsian Correspondences
12 February	David Epstein (Warwick)	A Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach to finding the boundary of a membrane
15 February (CSG talk on Friday!) 4:30pm, Maths G2	Philippe Flajolet (INRIA Rocquencourt)	Singularity Analysis of Generating Functions---A Perspective
19 February	Ivan Tyukin (Leicester)	Non-uniform Small-gain Theorems for Systems with Unstable Invariant Sets and Their Applications
26 February	Boris Khoruzhenko (QMUL)	Moments of random determinants: an exercise in Schur function expansion
4 March	Jens Marklof (Bristol)	The Boltzmann-Grad limit of the periodic Lorentz gas
6 March (special talk on Thursday!) 4pm, Maths Lecture Theatre	Royce Zia (Virginia Tech)	Modeling Protein Synthesis by Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Processes (TASEP)
11 March	Senya Shlosman (CNRS Luminy)	Dynamics of Highly Connected Queuing Networks: Synchronization Phase Transition and the Coherent States
18 March	Andrei Khrennikov (Växjö)	p-adic Ergodicity
25 March	No Seminar	Easter Break
1 April	Thomas Prellberg (QMUL)	Simulating Models of Polymer Collapse