Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar

I ran the Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar in Manchester from January 2015 - June 2016. Here is a list of all the speakers:

2015:

• February 3rd: Ábel Farkas (St Andrews). Linear images of self-similar sets with no separation condition. Abstract

• February 10th: Paul Glendinning (Manchester). Two topics in piecewise smooth systems: high dimensional attractors and refractions and reflections in a chessboard medium.

• February 17th: Lyndsey Clark (Manchester). The β-transformation with a hole. Abstract

• February 24th: James Robinson (Warwick). On finite-dimensional attractors of homeomorphisms. Abstract

• March 3rd: Tom Kempton (St Andrews). Dynamics on self-affine sets. Abstract

• March 10th: Zemer Kosloff (Warwick). Inhomogeneous Markov shifts, their smooth realization and new examples of Anosov diffeomorphisms. Abstract

• March 17th: Thomas Jordan (Bristol). Fourier transforms and Minkowski's question mark function. Abstract

Easter break!

• April 14th: Kit Nair (Liverpool). Strong Uniform Distribution. Abstract

• April 21st: Wael Bahsoun (Loughborough). Mixing rates and limit theorems for random intermittent maps. Abstract

• April 28th: Charles Walkden (Manchester). Stochastic stability and limit theorems for coupled iterated function systems that contract on average. Abstract

• May 5th: Felipe Ramirez (York). Rational approximation of points lying on submanifolds of Euclidean space. Abstract

• May 12th: Karma Dajani (Utrecht). A dynamical approach to $N$-continued fraction expansions. Abstract

Summer break!

• 6th October: Luis García Naranjo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). Preservation of volumes in nonholonomic mechanics. Abstract

• 13th October: no seminar due to visit from the Dean

• 20th October: Simon Baker (University of Reading). Approximation properties of beta expansions. Abstract

• 27th October: Nicholas Sharples (Middlesex). Irregular PDEs, well-posedness and fractal geometry. Abstract

Reading week!

• 10th November: Rhiannon Dougall (University of Warwick). Amenability and Growth of Closed Geodesics for Regular Covers. Abstract

• 17th November: Mike Jeffrey (University of Bristol). Ghosts of departed quantities in piecewise smooth dynamics. Abstract

• 24th November: Tuomas Sahlsten (University of Bristol). Fuchsian groups and Fourier transforms. Abstract

• 1st December: Yemon Choi (University of Lancaster). Translation-finite sets of positive integers. Abstract

• 2nd December: Antti Käenmäki (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). Ledrappier-Young formula and exact dimensionality of self-affine measures. Abstract

• 8th December: Ana Rodrigues (University of Exeter). Counting preimages. Abstract

• 15th December: Richard Sharp (University of Warwick). Higher Teichmuller theory and thermodynamic formalism Abstract

2016:

• February 9th: Mairi Walker (The Open University). Continued fractions and semigroups of Mobius transformations. Abstract

• February 23rd: Tom Withers (University of Manchester). Invariant sets for a family of non-uniformly expanding skew products. Abstract

• March 1st: Paul Glendinning (University of Manchester). Less is more: how to think about piecewise smooth bifurcation theory.

• March 15th: Amna Shaddad (University of Manchester). Point Vortices on the Complex Projective Plane. Abstract

Easter break!

• April 12th: Ian Morris (University of Surrey). Ergodic properties of matrix equilibrium states. Abstract

• April 19th: David Beltran (University of Birmingham). Optimal control of Fourier multipliers by maximal operators. Abstract

• May 3rd: Christian Bick (University of Exeter). Angular Frequency Synchronization and Localized Dynamics in Symmetrically Coupled Oscillators. Abstract

• May 10th: Peter Varju (University of Cambridge). Bernoulli convolutions. Abstract

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