Fall 2024
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 9/10 | Wentao Fan | Upper bound of topological entropy of stadium billiard |
| 9/17 | Sam Gomez | Dynamical systems with periodically varying parameters |
| 9/24 | Jasmine Bhullar | d̅- continuity beyond shifts of finite type |
| 10/22 | Wentao Fan | Asymmetric Lemon billiard-I |
| 11/5 | Wentao Fan | Asymmetric Lemon billiard-II |
| 11/12 | Bryan Rust | Equilibrium states for geodesic flows of nonpositive curvature-I |
| 11/19 | Bryan Rust | Equilibrium states for geodesic flows of nonpositive curvature-II |
| 11/26 | Sam Gomez | Topological entropy for noncompact spaces |
Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 1/23 | Jasmine Bhullar (Tufts) | Reading seminar: Survey of thermodynamic formalism for countable state Markov shifts |
| 1/30 | Sam Gomez (Tufts) | Reading seminar continued |
| 2/6 | Sam Gomez (Tufts) | Reading seminar continued |
| 2/20 | Sam Gomez (Tufts) | Reading seminar continued |
| 2/27 | Pengfei Zhang (Oklahoma) | Hyperbolicity of asymmetric lemon billiards |
Fall 2023
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 9/19 | Jasmine Bhullar Tufts University | d-continuity beyond subshifts of finite type |
| 9/26 | Enrique Pujals CUNY | Dynamics of Hénon Maps with Zero Entropy |
| 10/24 | Mariam Al-Hawaj University of Toronto | Generalized pseudo-Anosov Maps from Hubbard Trees |
| 11/14 | Xin Jin Boston College | Homoclinic and heteroclinic intersections for lemon billiards |
| 11/28 | Fei Cao UMass Amherst | Derivation of wealth distributions from biased exchange of money — Models and results |
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Abstract |
| 9/13 | Jiajie Zheng (Brandeis) | Twisted recurrence in uniformly expanding dynamical systems |
| 9/20 | Max Weinreich (Harvard) | The algebraic dynamics of the pentagram map |
| 10/25 | Daniel Glasscock (UMass Lowell) | Simultaneous approximation in topological dynamics and its combinatorial applications ; |
| 11/8 | No talk | Tufts Friday’s schedule |
| 11/15 | Mark Demers (Farifield) | Applications of Anisotropic Banach Spaces to Dispersing Billiards; |
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Nov 1 4:30pm |
Samuel Lelièvre Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay |
Periodic billiard trajectories in the regular pentagon |
| Nov 8 | Aritro Pathak Brandeis University |
Invariant measures and the set of exceptions to Littlewood’s conjecture after Einsiedler, Katok, Lindenstrauss |
| Tuesday, Nov 12 |
Giovanni Gallavotti Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” |
Reversibility and nonequilibrium ensembles in stationary Navier Stokes equation |
| Nov 22 4:30pm |
Alba Marina Málaga Sabogal ICERM |
Unique ergodicity for infinite area translation surfaces |
| Dec 6 4:30pm |
Diana Davis Swarthmore College and ICERM |
Tiling billiards and interval exchange transformations |
| Jan 17, 2020 | Yiftach Dayan Technion | Israel Institute of Technology |
Random walks on tori and an application to normal numbers in self-similar sets |
| Feb 28, 2020 | Qingshuo Song Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
Solvability of nonlinear Dirichlet problems with fractional differential operators |
| Mar 21–22, 2020 | AMS Sectional Meeting, Tufts University—CANCELLED (COVID-19) | |
| Apr 3, 2020 | Kostas Spiliopoulos Boston University—CANCELLED (COVID-19) |
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| Apr 17, 2020 | Daniel Glasscock University of Massachusetts, Lowell—CANCELLED (COVID-19) |
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Feb 15 | Christoph Börgers
Tufts University |
Superdiffusion |
| Mar 1 | Jonathan Touboul
Brandeis University |
Noise-induced regularity in stochastic neural networks |
| Tuesday, Mar 5 | Misha Bialy
Tel Aviv university |
Geometry of Gutkin billiard tables |
| Mar 29 | Mickey Salins
Boston University |
Uniform large deviations principles and applications to the exit problem for SPDEs |
| Apr 12 | Mark Demers
Fairfield University |
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Sep 7 | Zbigniew Nitecki
Tufts University |
Hyperbolicity in non-compact dynamics: Anosov structures in the plane |
| Oct 19 |
Boston University |
Patterns in growing domains |
| Nov 9 | Alexandru Hening
Tufts University |
The competitive exclusion principle in stochastic environments |
| 12:00pm Tuesday, Nov 20 | Aaron Brown
University of Chicago |
Lattices acting on manifolds |
| Nov 30 |
Claude Greengard Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University and Foss Hill Partners |
Slow convergence in generalized central limit theorems |
Spring 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Feb 9 | Sebastian J. Schreiber UC Davis |
To persist or not to persist? |
| Mar 9 | Cecilia Gonzalez Tokman University of Queensland |
Limit theorems for non-autonomous dynamical systems |
| Apr 6 (1:30pm) |
Spencer Smith Mt. Holyoke College |
Homotopy Method for Characterizing Topological Chaos in Three Dimensions |
| Apr 20 | Yao Li U Mass Amherst |
Neuron field models: beyond the mean-field approximation |
Fall 2013
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Sep 25 | Sarah Bray | The dynamics of low-regularity Hilbert geometries |
| Oct 9 | Minh Nguyen | Equilibrium states in negative curvature |
| Oct 23 | Colin Thomson | Topological conjugacies on the torus |
| Oct 30 | Zbigniew Nitecki Tufts University |
Anosov structures in the plane |
| Nov 6 | Keith Merrill Brandeis University |
TBA |
| Nov 13 | Moon Duchin Tufts University |
TBA |
| Nov 20 | Sarah Bray | TBA |
Spring 2013
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Feb 6 | Boris Hasselblatt Tufts University |
Longitudinal foliation rigidity and Lipschitz-continuous invariant forms for hyperbolic flows |
| Feb 13 | Mickaël Crampon Universidad de Santiago de Chile |
Lyapunov exponents in Hilbert geometries |
| Feb 20 | Camille Tardif University of Luxembourg |
Lyapunov spectrum for relativistic diffusion |
| Feb 27 | Moon Duchin Tufts University |
The Veech alternative |
| Mar 6 | Keith Merrill Brandeis University |
Diophantine approximation and the geometry of limit sets in Gromov hyperbolic metric spaces (after Fishman, Simmons, Urbański) |
| Mar 27 | Maria Correia Tufts University and Universidade de Évora |
TBA |
| Apr 17 | Keith Burns Northwestern University |
Mixing for the Weil Petersson geodesic flow |
Fall 2012
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Sept 7 | Thomas Barthelmé Tufts University |
Orbits of Anosov flows on 3-manifolds |
| Sept 14 | Zbigniew Nitecki Tufts University |
Anosov diffeomorphisms in the plane |
| Sept 21 | Enrique Pujals IMPA Tufts University |
The evolutionary robustness of forgiveness and cooperation |
| Sept 28 | Enrique Pujals IMPA and Tufts |
Cr-structural stability |
| Oct 5 | François Ledrappier University of Notre Dame |
Entropies and rigidities of compact manifolds |
| Oct 12 | Boris Hasselblatt Tufts University |
Contact Anosov flows on hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
| Oct 19 | Thomas Barthelmé Tufts University |
Periodic orbits of skewed R-covered Anosov flows |
| Oct 26 | Keith Merrill Brandeis University |
Rational Approximation on Quadratics |
| Nov 2 | Anja Bankovic University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana |
The length spectrum of billiards/quadratic differentials |
| Nov 30 | Minh Nguyen Tufts |
Measure theory through dynamical eyes (after Climenhaga and Katok) |
| Dec 7 | Sarah Bray Tufts |
Ideal tilings and symbolic dynamics for negatively curved surfaces (after Fried) |