DYNAMICS SEMINARS and WORKSHOPS at COURANT
Spring 2013
Friday, January 25, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, WWH Room 705
Eugene Gutkin
(N. Copernicus Univ. and Math. Inst of Polish Academy of Sciences)
The Outer Billiard Map
[ Abstract ]
Fall 2012
Monday, November 12, 3:45 - 4:45 pm, WWH 1302
Domokos Szász
(Budapest University of Technology)
Mathematics Colloquium
On Dettmann's 'Horizon' Conjectures
[ Abstract ]
Friday, November 9, 2:30 - 3:30 pm, WWH Room 512
Bastien Fernandez
(Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS Marseille)
Coupled Map Lattices Beyond the Uncoupled Regime
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, November 7, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, WWH Room 201
Brian Ryals
(Courant Institute)
Horseshoes of Periodically-kicked van der Pol Oscillators
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, November 7, 5:15 - 6:15 pm, WWH Room 201
Stan Mintchev
(Cooper Union)
Stability of a Family of Traveling Wave Solutions in a Feedforward Chain of Phase Oscillators
[ Abstract ]
Thursday, November 1, 4:00 - 5:30 pm WWH 1314
Alex Blumenthal (Courant Institute)
Discrete and Continuum Degrade and Fire Oscillators
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, October 31, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, WWH 201
Domokos Szász
(Budapest University of Technology)
Continuation: On Dettmann's 'Horizon' Conjectures
[ Abstract ]
Thursday, October 25, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, WWH Room 1314
Domokos Szász
(Budapest University of Technology)
On Dettmann's 'Horizon' Conjectures
[ Abstract ]
Thursday, October 18, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, WWH Room 1314
Shirshendu Chatterjee
(Courant)
Persistence of Activity in Threshold Contact Processes, an "Annealed
Approximation" of Random Boolean Networks
[ Abstract ]
Tuesday, October 16, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, WWH Room 705
Yao Li
(Courant Institute)
Asymptotic effects of small random perturbations and applications
[ Abstract ]
Spring 2012
Tuesday, November 6, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, WWH Room 705
Bastien Fernandez
(Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS Marseille)
Coupled Map Lattices Beyond the Uncoupled Regime
[ Abstract ]
Friday, May 18, 10:00 am, WWH Room 512
Mikko Stenlund
(University of Rome)
Joint with Probability and Mathematical Physics seminar
An invariance principle for Sinai billiards with random scatterers
[ Abstract ]
Monday, April 16, 3:45 - 5:00 pm, WWH Room 1302
Vadim Kaloshin
(University of Maryland)
Courant Institute Mathematics Colloquium
Arnold diffusion via invariant cylinders and Mather variational method
Wednesday, March 7, 5 - 7 pm, Meyer 6th floor lounge
Alain Barrat
(Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS Marseille)
Joint with Faculty Exchange seminar
Mining networks of human contact with wearable sensors
[ Abstract ]
Tuesday, March 6, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, WWH Room 317
Alain Barrat
(Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS Marseille)
Online and offline social networks
[ Abstract ]
Friday, March 2, 3:45 - 5:00 pm, WWH Room 805
Brian Ryals
(Courant Institute)
Epidemic and social networks - part II
Thursday, March 1, 3:20 - 5:00 pm, WWH Room 805
Brian Ryals
(Courant Institute)
Epidemic and social networks - part I
Wednesday, February 29, 3:20 - 5:00 pm, WWH Room 705
Bastien Fernandez
(Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS Marseille)
Extensive clustering in populations of degrade-and-fire oscillators - part II
[ Abstract ]
Friday, February 24, 3:45 - 5:00 pm, WWH Room 805
Bastien Fernandez
(Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS Marseille)
Extensive clustering in populations of degrade-and-fire oscillators
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, February 22, 3:20 - 5:00 pm, WWH Room 705
Brian Ryals
(Courant Institute)
Dynamical processes on complex networks
[ Abstract ]
Friday, February 10, 2:30 - 3:30 pm, WWH Room 1302
Yuri Bakhtin
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Applied Math Seminar
Noisy heteroclinic networks and sequential decision making
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, February 8, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, WWH Room 201
Yuri Bakhtin
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Joint Dynamical Systems / PDE / Probability Seminar
Randomly forced Burgers equation in noncompact setting
[ Abstract ]
Fall 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2:00 - 3:00 pm, WWH Room 312
Tatiana Yarmola
(University of Toronto)
Ergodic properties of random billiards driven by thermostats
[ Abstract ]
Friday, October 28, 4:00-5:00 pm, WWH Room 317
David Ruelle (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette)
A mechanical model for Fourier's Law of heat conduction
[ Abstract ]
Friday, October 28, 1:00-2:00 pm, WWH Room 317
Mark Demers (Fairfield University)
A spectral gap for the transfer operator of the Lorentz gas
[ Abstract ]
Friday, October 21, 1:15-3:00 pm, WWH Room 705
Bastien Fernandez (Centre
de Physique Théorique, CNRS Marseille)
Dynamics of chains of coupled piece-wise expanding maps
Spring 2011
Friday, May 13, 4:00-6:00 pm, WWH Room 512
Rafael de la Llave (University of Texas at Austin)
Geometric identities with applications to computational KAM theory.
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, May 11, 2:00-3:00 pm, WWH Room 1314
Francesco Cellarosi (Princeton University)
On the Möbius function and Statistical Mechanics
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, April 27, 4:00-6:00 pm, WWH Room 1314
Bastien Fernandez (Centre
de Physique Théorique, CNRS Marseille)
Properties of synchronization graphs in discontinuous forced systems
[ Abstract ]
Friday, April 22, 1:00-3:00 pm, WWH Room 512
Alexander I. Bufetov (Steklov Institute of Mathematics and Rice University)
Limit theorems for translation flows
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, April 20, 4:00-6:00 pm, WWH Room 1314
Jeroen Lamb (Imperial College, London)
On the geometry of Penrose tilings: projection and substitution
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, April 13, 4:00-6:00 pm, WWH Room 1314
Bastien Fernandez (Centre
de Physique Théorique, CNRS Marseille)
Microscopic vs. macroscopic clustering in populations of coupled
genetic oscillators
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, March 9, 4:00-6:00 pm, WWH Room 1314
Albert Fathi (ENS, Lyon, France)
Smoothing Lyapunov functions
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, March 2, 4:00-6:00 pm, WWH Room 705
Yves Lacroix (Toulon, France)
The law of series
[ Abstract ]
Fall 2010
Friday, November 19, 10:30am, Meyer Room 754
Stephen Coombes
(University of Nottingham, UK)
Rinzel lab meeting
Dynamics of Morris-Lecar networks
[ Abstract ]
Tuesday, November 16, 12:15pm, WWH Room 1314
Stephen Coombes
(University of Nottingham, UK)
Mostly Biomathematics Seminar
Threshold Models of Intracellular Calcium Release
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, November 10, 4:00pm, WWH Room 1314
Amadeu Delshams
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
Global instability in mechanical systems using geometrical methods
[ Abstract ]
Thursday, November 4, 4:00-6:00 pm, WWH Room 317
Yuri Latushkin (University of Missouri)
Dynamics of Evolutionary Equations (following George Sell)
Wednesday, November 3, 4:00pm, WWH Room 1314
Gemma Huguet
(Center for Neural Science, NYU)
A model for dynamical switching during tristable perception of
visual plaids
[ Abstract ]
Friday, October 22, 11:15 am, WWH Room 317
Domokos Szász (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Energy transfer and joint diffusion
[ Abstract ]
Thursday, October 21, 4 pm, WWH Room 317
Domokos Szász (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
(Super)diffusive asymptotic for perturbed Lorentz or Lorentz-like processes
[ Abstract ]
Friday, October 1, 4:00-5:00 pm, WWH Room 312
David Ruelle, (IHES)
Can one differentiate SRB states with respect to the dynamics? What
about stable-unstable tangencies?
[ Abstract ]
Thursday, September 30, 4:00-6:00 pm, WWH Room 905
Yuri Latushkin (University of Missouri)
Dynamics of Evolutionary Equations (following George Sell)
Wednesday, September 15, 4:00-6:00 pm, WWH Room 1314
Yuri Latushkin (University of Missouri)
Dynamics of Evolutionary Equations (following George Sell)
Summer 2010
Monday, August 2, 2:00-3:15, WWH Room 1314
Marco Lenci ,
Bologna
Quenched random Lorentz tubes (Joint work with G. Cristadoro and M. Seri)
[ Abstract ]
Monday, August 2, 4:00-5:15, WWH Room 1314
Mikko Stenlund ,
CIMS
A chaotic walk in a frozen environment (Joint work with T. Simula and
L. Leskelä)
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, July 28, 3:00-4:00, WWH Room 1314
Stefan Siegmund ,
TU Dresden
Dynamics and Control in Fluids, Engineering and Biochemistry
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, July 21, 3:30-4:30, WWH Room 1314
Bastien Fernandez ,
Courant Institute and Marseille
Extensive escape rate in lattices of weakly coupled expanding maps
[ Abstract ]
Spring 2010
Thursday, May 6, 3-4 pm, WWH Room 412
Vered Rom-Kedar ,
Weizmann Institute
The parabolic resonance instability
[ Abstract ]
Tuesday, April 13, 2.30pm, WWH Room 412
Jean-René Chazottes ,
CNRS/École Polytechnique
Concentration inequalities for dynamical systems
[ Abstract ]
Friday, April 2, 11:00-12:00pm, Meyer Hall Room 815
Larry Abbott ,
Columbia University
NeuroFriday Seminar
Controlling Chaotic Activity in Neural Networks
[ Abstract ]
Thursday, March 25, 4:00-5:00 pm WWH Room 1314
Mikko Stenlund ,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Coupling for nonstationary compositions of Anosov diffeomorphisms
[ Abstract ]
Thursday, February 18, 4:00-5:14 WWH Room 1314
Ke Zhang ,
University of Maryland
Speed of Arnold diffusion for analytic Hamiltonian systems
[ Abstract ]
Thursday, February 4, 3:00-4:30 WWH Room 517
Tanya Yarmola ,
University of Maryland
Ergodicity of some open systems with particle-disk interactions
[ Abstract ]
Fall 2009
Thursday, December 10, 4:00-5:00 WWH Room 1314
Giovanni Gallavotti ,
Rome
Thermostats equivalence in the thermodynamic limit, for particles systems
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, December 9, 3:30-4:30, WWH Room 1314
Michael Boshernitzan ,
Rice
Diophantine properties of dynamical systems and interval exchange
transformations
[ Abstract ]
Thursday, December 3, 5:00-6:00, WWH Room 512
Raphael Lefevere ,
Paris
Large deviations of the energy current in local collisional dynamics
[ Abstract ]
Thursday, November 5, 1:45-3:15, WWH Room 317
Bard Ermentrout ,
Pittsburgh
Double or Nothing: The Blinking Brain
[ Abstract ]
Tuesday, November 3, 1:25-3:15, WWH Room 512
Bard Ermentrout ,
Pittsburgh
Rinzel's class
Working memory, oscillations, and disease: Inhibition and Dynamics.
[ Abstract ]
Monday, November 2, 4:30-6:00, WWH Room 517
Bastien Fernandez , CIMS and CNRS
Mini course II
Metastability in interacting nonlinear stochastic differential equations
[ Abstract ]
Friday, October 30, 2:30-3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Yves Couder ,
Matière et Systèmes Complexes Université Paris
Diderot (Paris 7)
Applied Math Seminar
A Macroscopic Type of Wave-Particle Duality: The Role of "Path Memory" in
the Motion of Bouncing Droplets
[ Abstract ]
Friday, October 30, 4:00-5:30, WWH Room 412
Bastien Fernandez , CIMS and CNRS
Mini course I
Metastability in interacting nonlinear stochastic differential equations
[ Abstract ]
Friday, October 23, 2:30-3:30, WWH Room 1302
Björn Birnir ,
UC Santa Barbara
Applied Mathematics Seminar
Changes in Migration Patterns of the Capelin as an Indicator of Temperature Changes in the Arctic Ocean
[ Abstract ]
Thursday, October 22, 2:30-4:00, WWH Room 412
Björn Birnir ,
UC Santa Barbara
Basic Attractors of Nonlinear PDEs and their Bifurcations
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, October 14, 4:00-5:30, WWH Room 412
Bastien Fernandez , CIMS and CNRS
Spatial chaos of traveling waves as a unique velocity
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, October 7, 11:00-12:30, WWH Room 512
Mikhail Lyubich,
Stony Brook University
Renormalization of Henon Maps, I
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, October 7, 4:00-5:30, WWH Room 412
Marco Martens,
Stony Brook University
Renormalization of Henon Maps, II
[ Abstract ]
Wednesday, September 30, 4:00-5:30 PM WWH 412
Mikko Stenlund CIMS
A pair correlation bound implies the Central Limit Theorem for Sinai
Billiards
[ Abstract ]
Spring 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 4:00-6:00 PM WWH 1314
Alejandra Rodriguez Hertz IMERL, Montevideo, Uruguay
Uniqueness of SRB measures for transitive diffeomorphisms of surfaces
[ Abstract ]
Summer 2008
Spring 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 4 PM-5 PM, WWH 1013
Tanya Yarmola, Courant Institute
An example of a pathological random perturbation of the Cat Map
[ Abstract ]
Friday, April 4, 4 PM-6 PM, WWH 1013
Andrey Shilnikov, Georgia State University
Polyrhythmic synchronization in inhibitory-excitatory motifs composed
of bursting neuron models
[ Abstract ]
Tuesday, March 25, 4 PM-6 PM, WWH 1314
Dong Li, IAS
Blow ups of complex solutions of fluid dynamics equations
[ Abstract ]
Tuesday, February 12, 4 PM-5 PM, WWH 1314
Vadim Kaloshin, University of Maryland
Hamiltonian systems exhibiting Arnold diffusion
[ Abstract ]
Fall 2007
- Wednesday, November 28, 3:30pm, WWH 1302 (Applied Math Seminar)
Martin Hairer, U of Warwick
Long-time behaviour of the 2D stochastic Navier-Stokes equations (Lecture I)
[ Abstract ]
- Friday, November 16 , 3:00PM-4:00PM and 4:45PM-5:45PM, 613 WWH
Michael Yampolsky, U of Toronto
Computability and computational complexity of Julia sets
(joint work with M. Braverman)
- Tuesday, September 18, 4:00PM - 5:00PM, First Floor WWH
Tour of the Applied Mathematics Laboratory
Spring 2007
- Friday, April 13, 2:30PM - 3:30PM, 1302 WWH
Martin Feinberg (Ohio State U)
Stability and Instability in Complex Chemical Reaction Networks: The
Big Picture
- Tuesday, April 3, 4:00pm-5:00pm, 1314 WWH
Paul Wright (Courant Institute)
Dissertation defense: Rigorous results for the periodic oscillation
of an adiabatic piston
- Tuesday, March 27, 3:00pm-5:00pm, 1314 WWH
Carlangelo Liverani (Rome)
Dependence of the statistical properties of a Dynamical
Systems from a parameter
- Thursday, February 22, 3:30 pm-4:30 pm, 613 WWH
Huyi Hu (Michgan State)
Absolutely Continuous Invariant Measures for Non-Uniformly Expanding
Maps
Fall 2006
- Tuesday, November 14, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, 1314 WWH
Valentin Afraimovich, Mexico
Some phenomena in networks modeled by generalized Lotka-Volterra equations
- Tuesday, October 31, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, 1314 WWH
Kevin Lin, NYU
Reliable and unreliable dynamics in driven coupled oscillators
Spring 2006
- February 6 - 9
Mini-series on "Brownian Brownian
Motion"
Nikolai Chernov
Lecture 1. Mon, Feb 6, 2:00-3:30, Room 1013
Lecture 2. Tues, Feb 7, 3:30-5:00, Room 1013
Lecture 3. Wed, Feb 8, 3:30-5:00, Room 1013
Lecture 4. Thurs, Feb 9, 4:00-5:30, Room 1314
Past Events
Past Nonlinear Dynamics Workshops