Dec 23-Aug 2, 2016
Statistical Properties of Nonequilibrium Dynamical Systems
July 27 – August 2, 2016
Conference Schedule
Wednesday, July 27
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Check-in and Registration
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
9:00 – 9:50 a.m. Leonid Bunimovich, Georgia Tech
When and where orbits of extremely chaotic systems prefer to go
9:55 – 10:45 a.m. Mark Pollicott, University of Warwick
Asymptotic escape rates for one-dimensional maps
10:45 – 11:15 a.m. Break
11:15 – 12:05 p.m. Federico Rodriguez-Hertz, Penn State, Measure and smooth rigidity of
higher rank actions.
12:05 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 – 2:40 p.m. Yunping Jiang, Queen’s College, CUNY
Ruelle’s Transfer Operators and Decay of Correlations for Uniformly and
Non-Uniformly Expanding Dynamical Systems
2:55 – 3:35 p.m. Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California
Entry and Return Times for Bowen Balls
3:35 – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 – 4:40 p.m. Marco Lenci, Universita di Bologna, Uniformly expanding Markov
maps of the real line: exactness and infinite mixing
4:45 – 5:25 p.m. Raul Ures, Universidad de la Republica – Uruguay & Southern University of Science and Technology, Ergodicity and partial hyperbolicity on unit tangent bundles of surfaces
Remark: Conference room is Teaching Building #1, Room 107;
Parallel Section I is Teaching Building #1, Room 107; Section II is Room 110
Dining Hall is located at Guest House # 1, first floor.
Thursday, July 28
8:20 – 9:10 a.m. Dmitry Dolgopyat, University of Maryland
Limit Theorems for Random Walk in Random Environment on a strip
9:20 – 10:10 a.m. Jean-Pierre Conze, University of Rennes
Limit theorems for multi-dimensional actions on some algebraic models
10:10-10:35 am Break
10:35 – 11:15 a.m. Richard Sharp, University of Warwick
Fluctuation theorems with shrinking intervals
11:20 – 12:00 p.m. Peter Balint, Budapest University of Technology,
Mean field coupling of doubling maps
12:00– 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 – 6:00 p.m. Parallel Session I
2:00 – 2:45 p.m. Paul Jung, University of Alabama at Birmingham
A Stable Limit Theorem for Billiards with Cusps
2:50 –3:35 p.m Mark Demers, Fairfield University
Exponential decay of correlations for Sinai billiard flows
3:35 – 4:05 p.m. Break
4:05 – 4:40 p.m Peter Nandori, University of Maryland
Toward the rare interaction limit of some hard ball systems
4:45 – 5:20 p.m Christopher Cox, Washington University in St. Louis
On the Ergodicity of Umbrella and No-slip Billiards.
5:25 – 6:00 p.m. Fan Yang, UFRJ/IMPA
Decay of correlation for DA maps with measure of maximum entropy
2:00 – 6:10 p.m. Parallel Session II
2:00 – 2:45 p.m. Cecilia Gonzalez-Tokman, University of Queensland
Non-autonomous dynamical systems and multiplicative ergodic
theorems
2:50 – 3:35 p.m Michele Gianfelice, University of Calabria, Some results on the
asymptotic behaviour of finite connection probabilities in percolation
and related models
4:05 – 4:40 p.m Pengfei Zhang, University of Mississippi
Homoclinic Intersections for Geodesic Flows on Convex Spheres
4:45 – 5:20 p.m Dmitry Todorov, University of Aix-Marseille
Random averaging
5:25 – 6:00 p.m. Xiao Wen, BeiHang University，TBA
Friday, July 29
8:10 – 9:00 a.m. Lan Wen, Peking University
A review on the stability and density problems
9:05 – 9:55 a.m. Carlangelo Liverani, University of Rome
Fast-Slow partially hyperbolic systems
9:55 – 10:20 am Break
10:20 – 11:10 a.m. Sandro Vaienti, University of Toulon and CPT Marseille
A few limit theorems for non-autonomous dynamical systems
11:15 – 12:05 p.m. Konstantin Khanin, University of Toronto
On global solutions to the parabolic Anderson model
12:05– 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 – 2:50 p.m. Yiming Long, Nankai University
Periodic solutions of the generalized anisotropic Lennard-Jones systems in R^n
2:55 – 3:45 p.m. Keith Burns, Northwestern University
Unique equilibrium states for geodesic flows in nonpositive curvature
3:45 – 4:15 p.m. Break
4:15 – 5:05 p.m. Zhihong Jeff Xia, Northwestern University & Southern University of
Science and Technology; Bifurcation and stability using Conley –
Zehnder index.
5:10 ---- Group photo
6:00 ---- Banquet in honor of Prof Lan Wen;
Prof. Keith Burns; Prof. Konstantin Khanin;
Prof. Carlangelo Liverani; Prof. Sandro Vaienti, for their birthdays.
Saturday, July 30
8:30 – 9:10 a.m. Federico Bonetto, Georgia Tech,TBA
9:15 – 9:55 a.m. Gary Froyland, University of New South Wales
Transfer operator co-cycle analysis of non-autonomous dynamical
Systems
9:55 – 10:25 a.m. Break
10:25 – 11:05 a.m. Carlos Vasquez, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso
On the non-robustness of intermingled basins
11:10 – 11:50 a.m. Parallel Session I
11:10 – 11:50 a.m. Yanxia Deng, Queen’s University
Stability of periodic orbits by Conley-Zehnder index theory
11:10 – 11:50 a.m. Parallel Session II
11:10 – 11:50 a.m. Xueting Tian, Fudan University, Specification in Dynamical Systems
with certain Hyperbolicity and Applications
Monday, August 1
8:10 – 9:00 a.m. Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago, TBA
9:05 – 9:55 a.m. Xiangdong Ye, University of Science and Technology of China
Around the pointwise convergence of multiple ergodic averages
9:55 – 10:20 a.m. Break
10:20 – 11:10 a.m. Renato Feres, Washington University in St. Louis
Geometry and dynamics of no-slip billiards
11:15 – 12:05 a.m. Ian Melbourne, University of Warwick
The Lorenz attractor is exponentially mixing
12:05 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 – 6:05 p.m Parallel Session I
2:00 –2:40 p.m Benjamin Webb, Bringham Young University, Self-Limiting Motion of
a Particle Moving Deterministically in Random Media
2:45 – 3:25 p.m. Yao Li, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Polynomial convergence to nonequilibrium steady-state
3:25 - 3:55 Break
3:55 – 4:35 p.m. Alex Grigo, University of Oklahoma
Applications of billiard-like systems
4:40 – 5:20 p.m. Maria Fatima Correia, Universidade de Évora, Ergodicity and periodic orbits of a two-parameter family of billiards
5:25 – 6: 05 Jianyu Chen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Statistical Properties of One-dimensional Expanding Maps with Poor Singularities
2:00 – 6:05 p.m. Parallel Session II
2:00 – 2:40 p.m. Ke Zhang, University of Toronto
Random Hamiltonian systems and Hamilton-Jacobi equations
2:45 – 3:25 p.m. Dawei Yang, Soochow University
SRB measures for singular hyperbolic attractors
3:55 – 4:35p.m. Radu Saghin, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Invariant measures for cherry flows
4:40 – 5:20 p.m. Davor Dragicevic, University of New South Wales, Hölder continuity of
Oseledets splitting for semi-invertiblle operator cocycles
Tuesday, August 2
8:10 – 9:00 a.m. Christopher Bose, University of Victoria, Canada, Exact mixing
asymptotics and limit laws for random intermittent maps
9:05 – 9:55 a.m. Weinian Zhang, Sichuan University
Roughness of Tempered Exponential Dichotomies
9:55 – 10:25 a.m. Break
10:25 – 11:15 a.m. Dan Thompson, Ohio State University
Uniqueness of equilibrium states for geodesic flows
11:15 – 12:05 p.m. Wael Bahsoun, Loughborough University
Linear response for non-uniformly expanding maps