Fall 1992 Monday Aug. 31: Laurette Tuckerman, Numerical study of the Faraday instability, Nonlinear dynamics seminar, RLM 11.204 at 1:00 Wednesday Sept. 2: Charles Radin, Substitution dynamical systems Wednesday Sept. 9: Cymra Haskell, Brownian Motion and Billiards on the Torus Wednesday Sept. 16: Misha Vishik, Hydrodynamic stability and exponential stretching Monday Sept. 21: Rafael de la Llave, Transport of magnetic fields by conducting fluids Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar, RLM 11.204 at 1:00 Monday Sept 28: Lai-Sang Young (Arizona), Ergodic theory of strange attractors colloquium, RLM 4.102 at 4:00 Tuesday Sept 29: Lai-Sang Young (Arizona), Entropy, Lyapunov exponents and Hausdorff dimension Dynamical Systems Seminar, RLM 10.176 at 4:00 Wednesday Sept 30: Lai-Sang Young (Arizona), The dynamics of x => 1-ax^2 Wednesday Oct. 7: Dwight Barkley, Spiral Dyanamics from PDE's and ODE's Monday Oct. 12: Phil Holmes, Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar at 1:00 in RLM 11.204 Monday Oct. 12: Phil Holmes, Dynamical Systems Seminar at 4:00 in RLM 10.176 Wednesday, Oct. 14: Marina Ratner (Berkeley), Lie Groups and Ergodic Theory Colloquium at 4:00 in RLM 7.104 Thursday Oct. 15: Marina Ratner (Berkeley), Raghunathan's Conjectures for SL(2,R), I, Dynamical Systems Seminar at 4:00 in RLM 11.176 Friday Oct. 16: Marina Ratner (Berkeley), Raghunathan's Conjectures for SL(2,R), II (TENTATIVE) Wednesday Oct. 21: Lorenzo Sadun, Berry's phase and adiabatic quantum charge transport Wednesday Oct. 28: Phil Shaefer, The rigidity of dynamically defined Cantor sets Wednesday Nov. 4: Steve Dworkin, Spectral theory and X-ray diffraction Wednesday Nov. 18: Filippo Cesi, Dynamical renormalization and critical phenomena in percolation Wednesday Dec. 2: Charles Radin, Substitution dynamical systems