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
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