Mathematical Physics Seminar (since Fall 2000)

Topics: Symplectic geometry, classical mechanics, infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems, dynamical systems and chaos

Spring 2004 meetings: Wednesdays, 4:15 -- 5:30 pm, in Jones 131

Coordinator: Nahum Zobin, (757) 221-2024, zobin@math.wm.edu

Spring 2004 schedule:

• January 28, Wednesday
  Speaker: Sebastian Schreiber
  Title: Ergodic theory, 1

• February 4, Wednesday
  Speaker: Sebastian Schreiber
  Title: Ergodic Theory, 2

• February 11, Wednesday
  Speaker: Sebastian Schreiber
  Title: Ergodic Theory, 3

• February 18, Wednesday
  Speaker: Sebastian Schreiber
  Title: Ergodic Theory, 4

• February 25, Wednesday
  Speaker: Sebastian Schreiber
  Title: Ergodic Theory, 5

• March 3, Wednesday
  Speaker: Sebastian Schreiber
  Title: Ergodic Theory, 6

• March 10, Wednesday
  Meeting cancelled (Spring Break)

• March 16, TUESDAY, 5:30 -- 6:30 pm, room Jones 301
  Speaker: Peter Kuchment, Texas A&M University
  Title: Quantum graphs
  NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME AND ROOM!

• March 17, Wednesday
  Speaker: Peter Kuchment, Texas A&M University
  Title: Around Radon transform

  Fall 2003 schedule:

  • August 27, Wednesday
    Speaker: Kevin Mitchell
    Title: Iterations of one-dimensional mappings

  • September 3, Wednesday
    Speaker: Kevin Mitchell
    Title: Symbolic dynamics for one-dimensional maps, 1

  • September 10, Wednesday
    Speaker: Kevin Mitchell
    Title: Symbolic dynamics for one-dimensional maps, 2

  • September 17, Wednesday
    CANCELLED DUE TO HURRICANE ISABEL

  • September 24, Wednesday
    CANCELLED DUE TO THE AFTERMATH OF THE HURRICANE

  • October 1, Wednesday
    Speaker: Sebastian Schreiber
    Title: Kneading theory and forbidden sequences

  • October 8, Wednesday
    Speaker: Sebastian Schreiber
    Title: Kneading Theory, 2

  • October 15, Wednesday
    Speaker: Sebastian Schreiber
    Title: Kneading theory, 3

  • October 22, Wednesday
    Speaker: Kevin Mitchell
    Title: Markov shifts and topological entropy

  • October 29, Wednesday
    Speaker: Kevin Mitchell
    Title: Further techniques for shift dynamics

  • November 5, Wednesday
    Speaker: Kevin Mitchell
    Title: Permutation of periodic points

  • November 12, Wednesday
    Speaker: Sebastian Schreiber
    Title: Bending bars and stretching cats
    

  • November 19, Wednesday
    Speaker: Sebastian Schreiber
    Title: Stretching cats even further
    

  • November 26, Wednesday
    NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving)
    

  • December 3, Wednesday
    Speaker: Alexander Pankov
    Title: Sharkovsky Theorem

  • December 10, Wednesday
    CANCELLED

  • December 17, Wednesday
    Speaker: Sebastian Schreiber
    Title: Ergodic theory -- an introduction

    Spring 2003 schedule:

    • Jan. 6, Monday, 11:30 am -- 1:00 pm
      Speaker: Nahum Zobin
      Title: Parallel transport on Riemannian manifolds

    • Jan.15, Wednesday
      Speaker: Nahum Zobin
      Title: Connections on Riemannian manifolds

    • Jan. 22, Wednesday
      Speaker: Nahum Zobin
      Title: Lie groups and Lie algebras -- an introduction

    • Jan. 29, Wednesday
      Speaker: Nahum Zobin
      Title: Geometry of coadjoint orbits

    • Feb. 5, Wednesday
      Speaker: Nahum Zobin
      Title: Geometry of coadjoint orbits, 2

    • Feb. 12, Wednesday
      Speaker: John Delos
      Title: Group SO(3) and mechanics, 1

    • Feb. 19, Wednesday
      Speaker: John Delos
      Title: Group SO(3) and mechanics, 2

    Fall 2002 schedule:

    • Sept. 6 (Friday)
      Speaker: John Delos
      Title: Completely integrable systems

    • Sept. 13 (Friday)
      Speaker: John Delos
      Title: Liouville's Theorem on Complete Integrability
      CANCELLED, moved to the AGNES seminar, Sept.16.

    • Sept. 20 (Friday)
      Speaker: Chris Culp
      Title: Generating functions and action-angle variables

    • Sept. 27 (Friday)
      Speaker: John Delos
      Title: Averaging -- an example

    • Oct. 4 (Friday)
      Speaker: John Delos
      Title: Averaging -- the case of one frequency

    • Oct. 11, 18 (Fridays)
      Fall Break -- no meetings

    • Oct. 25, (Friday)
      Speaker: John Delos
      Title: Averaging -- further results

    • Nov. 1, (Friday)
      Speaker: Nahum Zobin
      Title: Averaging -- degeneracies

    • Nov. 8, (Friday)
      Speaker: Kevin Mitchell
      Title: Adiabatic invariants

    • Nov. 15, (Friday)
      Meeting cancelled

    • Nov. 22, (Friday)
      Speaker: Nahum Zobin
      Title: Riemannian manifolds, 1.

    • Nov. 29, (Friday)
      Meeting cancelled.

    • Dec. 6, (Friday)
      Speaker: Nahum Zobin
      Title: Riemannian manifolds, 2.