Fall 1990 For the following seminars, unless otherwise stated the hour is 11:00, the room is RLM 12.166, and it is a Mathematical Physics Seminar Wednesday, Sept. 12: Filippo Cesi, "Classical and quantum multicomponent spin systems" Monday, Sept. 17: Diego del Castillo, "Chaotic transport and mixing in planetary type fluid flows" 1:00 pm in RLM 11.204 Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Wednesday, Sept. 19: Corrado Falcolini, "Stability in spin-orbit resonances: an application to Mercury" Monday, Sept. 24: Pavel Bleher (Tel-Aviv, visiting UT Sep. 20-30), "Some probability problems of quantum chaos", Tuesday, Sept. 25: Rafael de la Llave, "Characterization of hyperbolic sets by spectral properties and applications to the `fast dynamo' problem" 4:00 RLM 9.166 Dynamical Systems Seminar. Wednesday, Sept. 26: Pavel Bleher, "Statistical properties of the periodic Lorentz gas with infinite horizon", Tuesday, Sept. 2: Corrado Falcolini, "Existence of invariant tori for Hamiltonian systems and maps", Dynamical Systems Seminar, 4:00 RLM 9.166 Wednesday, Oct. 3: Hans Koch, "A non-Gaussian Renormalization Group Fixed Point for Dyson's Hierarchical Model". Monday, Oct. 8: J. Guckenheimer (Cornell), "Dynamics of surface wave oscillators", 1:00 in RLM 11.204, Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Tuesday, Oct. 9: J. Guckenheimer (Cornell), "Diffeomorphisms of the two-torus (three coupled oscillators)", time? room? Dynamical systems seminar Wednesday, Oct. 10: Charles Radin, "Determining a pattern" Wednesday, Oct. 17: Guy Battle (Texas A&M, visiting Oct. 17-18), "Construction of Wavelets" Tuesday Oct. 28 E. Sacks (Princeton computer science) "Automatic analysis of dynamical systems" Dyn. Sys. seminar R.L.M. 9.166 4:00 Wednesday, Oct 31: R. de la Llave "Perturbation theories for volume preserving diffeomorphisms and lack of mixing in fluid dynamics" Monday, Nov. 5: Jan Wehr (IAS, Princeton, visiting Nov. 4-7) "Statistical Mechanics of Systems with Static Disorder" Wednesday, Nov. 14: David Munton "Zero temperature scaling for spin glasses" Wednesday, Nov. 21: Luis Seco (CalTech) Wednesday, Nov. 28: Dwight Barkley (Princeton Univ.) "Periodic and quasiperiodic rotation of spiral waves in excitable media" Wednesday, Dec. 5: Claudio Albanese (Princeton Univ., visiting Dec. 1-5) "Quasiperiodic Schroedinger operators with purely absolutely continuous spectrum". Wednesday, Dec. 12: R. Dobrushin (cancelled)