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Symplectic Geometry and Physics Workshop II: Chaotic Dynamics and Transport

May 19 - 23, 2003

IPAM Building
Room 1200


Related seminar series:
Dynamical Systems Seminar Series
May 13 - 16, 2003
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Monday, May 19, 2003

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:20

Lai Sang Young (New York University/Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

"Correlation decay in chaotic systems including billiards"

10:30 - 11:20

Franco Vivaldi (Queen Mary, University of London)

"Arithmetic dynamics of piecewise isometries"

11:30 - 12:20

Anatoly Neishtadt (Space Research Institute)

"On averaging in systems with small Hamiltonianand much smaller non-Hamiltonian perturbations"

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20

Michael Shlesinger (Office of Naval Research)

"The Mathematics of Fractal Time and Levy Flights"

3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:50

Lev Lerman (Russia)

"Multidimensional Hamiltonian homoclinic dynamics"

5:00 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 20, 2003

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:20

Vered Rom-Kedar (Weizmann Institute of Science)

"On the structure of near-integrable multi-dimensional Hamiltonian systems"

10:30 - 11:20

Carlangelo Liverani (University of Rome II)

"Ergodic properties of a family of area preserving maps."

11:30 - 12:20

Jerrold Marsden (California Institute of Technology)

"Transport in Astrodynamics: The 3-body problem and Asteroid Pairs"

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20

Albert Luo (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)

"A mapping theory for regular and chaotic motions in non-smooth dynamic systems"

3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:50

Quidong Wang (University of Arizona)

"Strange Attractors Around Periodically Excited Weakly Stable Periodic "


Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:20

George Zaslavsky (New York University)

"Non-ergodic Hamiltonian Dynamics"

10:30 - 11:20

Leonid Bunimovich (Georgia Institute of Technology)

"Kinematics, equilibrium and shape"

11:30 - 12:20

Vadim Kaloshin (California Institute of Technology)

"Differentiability of Mather beta-function (or Effective Hamiltonian)"

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20

Maurice Courbage (Université Paris 7)

"Statistical irreversible evolution of chaotic systems"

3:20 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:50

Martin Lo (NASA)

"Space Travel via Chaotic Transport"


Thursday, May 22, 2003

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:20

Valentin Afraimovich (Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico)

"The epsilon-complexity in dynamical systems"

10:30 - 11:20

Benjamin Carreras (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

"Plasma Turbulence in Magnetic Confinement Systems"

11:30 - 12:20

Maciej Wojtkowski (University of Arizona)

"Limit Lyapunov spectrum in the system of falling balls"

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20

John Lowenstein (New York University)

"Pseudochaos for piecewise rational rotations"

3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:50

Turgay Uzer (Georgia Institute of Technology)

"Phase Space Transition States"

5:00 - 7:00 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Friday, May 23, 2003

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:20

George Haller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Nonlinear Dynamics of Unsteady Separation"

10:30 - 11:20

Sergey Prants (Pacific Oceanological Institute)

"Quantum chaos and fractals with atoms in cavities"

11:30 - 12:20

Igor Mezic (UCSB)

"Ergodic theory methods for controllability"

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:30

Charles Jaffe (West Virginia University)

"Phase Space Transport: From Atomic & Molecular Physics to Celestial Mechanics"

3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:50

Serguei Medvedev (Institute of Computational Technologies, SB RAS)

"TBA"

4:50 - 5:00 Conclusion

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