Fall 1994 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. 7: Charles Radin, Symmetries of patterns Wednesday, Sept. 14: Cymra Haskell, Nonuniformly hyperbolic K-systems are Bernoulli Wednesday Sept. 21: Jose Arrieta, Behavior of eigenvalues under perturbation of the domain Friday Sept. 23: Robert Maier, Large Fluctuations Away from Equilibrium in Stochastically Modelled Systems, CAM seminar, RLM 12.166, 4:00 pm Wednesday Sept. 28: Martin Hildebrand, An introduction to random walks on finite groups and the cutoff phenomenon Friday Sept. 30: Walter Strauss (Brown), Stability and Instability in Kinetic Theory CAM Seminar, RLM 12.166, 4:00pm Friday Oct. 7: Martin Golubitsky (Houston), Symmetry and Chaos: Patterns on Average CAM Seminar, RLM 12.166, 4:00pm Wednesday, Oct. 12: D. del Castillo, Invariant circles destruction in area preserving nontwist maps: A renormalization approach Monday Oct. 17: David Brydges (Virginia), The collapse of polymers Wednesday Oct. 26: Robert Maier, Multidimensional Ackerberg-O'Malley Resonance Monday Nov. 7: B. Krauskopf (Groningen), Bifurcations at $\infty$ in a model for 1:4 resonance Friday Nov. 11: A. Candel (Chicago), Ergodic theory of discrete groups of p-adic motions Friday, Nov. 18: Yuval Peres (UC Berkeley), The Dimension of Affine-Invariant Sets via Renormalization Saturday, Sunday, Nov. 19,20: Dynamics/Ergodic Theory Conference On campus Monday, Nov. 21: Doug Lind (Univ. of Washington What is Symbolic Dynamics? Intro to Research, RLM 6.104, 4:00 Monday, Dec. 5: A. Torok (Penn State) Cohomology and rigidity of lattice actions