Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Workshop 2004


Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University, 251 Mercer St., NY

October 1-3, 2004



Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the Courant Institute, New York University.
Organized by L.-S. Young and G.M. Zaslavsky


PROGRAM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 (morning) - Warren Weaver Hall 109
08:30 - 09:20 Breakfast and Registration (WWH Lobby)
09:20 - 09:30 Opening
09:30 - 10:10 H. Swinney (U. of Texas, Austin)
Fractal growth in thin sheets, leaves, and viscous fingers
10:15 - 10:55 K. Wiesenfeld (Georgia Tech)
Creation of Inert Oscillator Pairs in a Josephson Transmission Line
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:55 F. Vivaldi (U. of London, UK)
Maps Over Finite Fields
12:00 - 12:40 O. Lanford (ETH, Switzerland)
Hyperbolic Invariant Sets for Renormalization Operator
12:45 - 03:00 Lunch Break

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 (afternoon) - Warren Weaver Hall 109
03:00 - 03:40 G. Gallavotti (U. of Rome, Italy)
Fluctuatoin Theorem and a Few Conjectures
03:45 - 04:25 A. Majda (Courant Institute)
Low Dimensional Chaos and Intrinsic Stochastic Noise: A Paradigm Model
04:30 - 05:00 Coffee Break
05:00 - 05:40 O. Bogoyavlensky (Queen's University, Canada)
Nonlinear MHD Solutions
05:45 - 06:25 G. Zaslavsky (Physics NYU and Courant Institute)
Topological Instability on Invariant Surfaces
06:45 - 09:00 Dinner Party (13th floor, Warren Weaver Hall)
All Workshop participants are invited


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2 (morning) - Warren Weaver Hall 102
08:30 - 09:00 Breakfast (WWH Lobby)
09:00 - 09:40 W. Ditto (U. of Florida, Gainesville)
Electrical Activation Wave Dynamics on the Surface of Ablated Atria: Experimental Results and Open Theoretical Questions
09:45 - 10:25 Y. Sinai (Princeton University)
New Trends in 3D Navier-Stokes Equation Solutions
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40 D. Treschev (Moscow University, Russia)
Arnold Diffusion in a priori Unstable Near-Integrable Hamiltonian Systems
11:45 - 12:25 D. Dolgopyat (U. of Maryland)
Dynamics of Adiabatic Invariants for Systems with Resonances
12:30 - 03:00 Lunch Break

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2 (afternoon) - Warren Weaver Hall 102
03:00 - 03:40 A. Pikovsky (Max-Planck Institute, Germany)
Coping with the Synchrony
03:45 - 04:25 M. Aizenman (Princeton University)
TBA
04:30 - 05:00 Coffee Break
05:00 - 05:40 L.-S. Young (Courant Institute)
Energy Profiles for Stochastic and Hamiltonian Conductors
05:45 - 06:25 V. Afraimovich (S.L.Potosi University, Mexico)
Complexity of Orbits
06:30 Wine and Cheese Reception (13th Floor, WWH)


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 (morning) - Warren Weaver Hall 102
08:30 - 09:00 Breakfast (WWH Lobby)
09:00 - 09:40 C. Newman (Courant Institute)
The Scaling Limit of 2D Critical Percolation
09:45 - 10:25 L. Bunimovich (Georgia Tech)
Escape from a circle and Riemann hypotheses
10:30 - 11:10 M. Keane (Wesleyan University)
On Spontaneous Emergence of Opinions: Results and Conjectures Concerning Some Reinforced Random Walks and Their Dynamics
11:15 - 11:55 J. Lowenstein (NYU)
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