Schedule of Talks

Friday, April 13

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Sheldon Newhouse, Michigan State University
A trip into the world of computer assisted proofs in Dynamical Systems

Saturday, April 14

9:00 am - 9:30 am Refreshment in Martin Hall M-105

9:30 am – 10:30 am Sergei Tabachnikov, Penn State University
Pentagram Map, twenty years after

10:45 am – 11:45 am Douglas Shafer, UNC Charlotte
Stability and Centers in the Moon-Rand Systems

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Sheldon Newhouse, Michigan State University
Homoclinic Points, Hausdorff Dimension, and a theorem of Gonchenko, Silnikov, and Turaev

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch Break

 Martin Hall M-101
 Differential Equations and Applications, in memoriam of     
 Leonid Shilnikov, Douglas Shafer chair

2:30 pm – 3:20 pm Igor Belykh, Georgia State University
Stochastically switched dynamical systems: odds of meeting a ghost

3:30 pm – 4:15 pm Isaac A. Garcia, University of Lleida, Spain
Centers on center manifolds in R³and the vanishing set of inverse Jacobi multipliers

4:30 pm – 5:15 pm Tingli Xing, Georgia State University
Kneading in Lorenz and Shimizu-Moriako model

 Martin Hall M-102
 Ergodic Theory, Karl Peterson chair

2:30 pm – 3:20 pm Sarah Frick, Furman University
Complexity of Isotropic Adic Systems

3:30 pm – 4:15 pm Kevin McGoff, Duke University
Which dynamics are possible for Z^d SFTs

4:30 pm – 5:15 pm Joanna Furno, UNC Chapel Hill
Measures of p-adic Julia Sets

 Martin Hall M-201
 Mathematical Biology and Neuroscience, Igor Belykh chair

2:30 pm – 3:20 pm Justus Schwabedal, Potsdam University, Germany
Phase description of stochastic oscillations

3:30 pm – 4:15 pm Sajiya Jalil, Georgia State University
Experimental phase relation captured by model central pattern generator

4:30 pm – 5:15 pm Jeremy Wojcik, Georgia State University
Phase-lag return mappings for control of polyrhythms in bursting 3-cell networks

 Martin Hall M-202
 Billiard Dynamical Systems, Sam Kaplan chair

2:30 pm – 3:20 pm Timothy Chumley, Washington University in St. Louis
A Central Limit Theorem and Weak Invariance Principle for a Billiard-Markov Model

3:30 pm – 4:15 pm Jasmine Ng, Washington University in St. Louis
Billiard Markov Operators and Second-Order Differential Operators

4:30 pm – 5:15 pm Martin Schmoll, Clemson University
Dynamics on lattice Panov planes and applications

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Conference Banquet

8:30 am - 9:00 am Refreshment in Martin Hall M-105

9:00 am – 10:00 am Robert Connelly, Cornell University
Unfolding a Carpenter's Rule and some consequences

10:15 am – 11:15 am Yuliy Baryshnikov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Bell Labs
Topological Obstacles in Control

11:30 am – 12:30 pm Sergei Tabachnikov, Penn State University
Tire tracks geometry, hatchet planimeter, Menzin's conjecture, and complete integrability

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