Informal Seminar: Dynamics and Geometry, Spring 2012

Meets 4ish-5:30ish on Wednesdays in the Science Center, room 507.

Wednesday, 2/1: Mapping class groups, homology and finite covers of surfaces
Thomas Koberda, Harvard University

Wednesday, 2/15: Complex and p-adic Dynamics
ICERM, Providence RI

Wednesday, 2/22: Entropy and dimension of real sections of the Mandelbrot set
Giulio Tiozzo, Harvard University

Wednesday, 2/29: Matings with laminations
Dzmitry Dudko, Jacobs University

Wednesday, 3/7: Infinitesimal deformations of nodal stable curves
Scott Wolpert, University of Maryland

Wednesday, 3/14: no meeting, have a good spring break!

Wednesday, 3/21: Global Arithmetic Dynamics
ICERM, Providence RI

Wednesday, 3/28: Invariant components of translation surfaces
Kathryn Lindsey, Cornell University

Wednesday, 4/4: Polynomial matings and rational maps with cluster cycles
Tom Sharland, University of Warwick

Wednesday, 4/11: Integer homology 3-spheres with large injectivity radius
Nathan Dunfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, 4/18: Moduli Spaces Associated to Dynamical Systems
ICERM, Providence RI

Wednesday, 4/25: News about Newton: global dynamics and efficient root finding
Dierk Schleicher, Jacobs University

Wednesday, 5/2:Conservative diffeomorphisms from a C^1 generic perspective
Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago