The Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference was held at Northwestern in Fall 2017. Additional Information about the event can be found at the event webpage.
Jacopo De Simoi, University of Toronto
Daniel Groves, University of Illinois at Chicago
Patrick Ingram, York University
Boris Kalinin, Penn State University
Alex Kontorovich, Rutgers University
Joel Moreira, Northwestern University
Rohini Ramadas, Harvard University
Scott Schmieding, Northwestern University
Liz Vivas, Ohio State University
November 3
4:10pm Colloquium Lecture: Alex Kontorovich (Lunt 105)
Geometry and arithmetic of crystallographic packings
5:15pm Wine & Cheese Reception in the common room (2nd floor of Lunt)
November 4
All talks held in Technological Institute M345
8:30am Breakfast
9:00 Jacopo De Simoi
Spectral rigidity and planar convex billiards
10:00 Rohini Ramadas
Algebraic dynamics from topological and holomorphic dynamics
11:00 Coffee and snacks
11:30 Scott Schmieding
Automorphisms of the shift: Lyapunov exponents and the dimension representation
12:30-2:30 Lunch break
2:30 Joel Moreira
Multiple recurrence along sparse sequences over thick sets
3:30 Coffee and snacks
4:00 Daniel Groves
Uniform versus non-uniform convergence action on the two-sphere
November 5 -- Daylight Savings begins, set your clocks back!
All talks held in Technological Institute M345
8:30 Breakfast
9:00 Patrick Ingram
The critical height and its depleted variants
10:00 Liz Vivas
Scattering methods for skew-product parabolic maps
11:00 Coffee and snacks
11:30 Boris Kalinin
Normal forms on contracting foliations