Chicago Action Now!

Northwestern will host the next Chicago Action Now! conference, a dynamics conference held three times per year that rotates between Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Northwestern University

Lunt Hall Room 105

Schedule of Activities:

9:00 Coffee

9:30-10:30 John Franks, Northwestern

Non-expansiveness in Z^2 symbolic dynamics (abstract)

10:45-11:45 Sabya Mukherjee, Stony Brook

Dynamics of Schwarz reflections: mating polynomials with groups (abstract)

2:00-3:00 Clark Butler, Univ. of Chicago

Characterizing symmetric spaces by their Lyapunov spectra (abstract)

3:00 Coffee break

3:30-4:30 Olga Lukina, UIC

Symmetries of laminations (abstract)

Organized by Laura DeMarco, Ken Jacobs and Bryna Kra