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                   Thursday June 9 
                    11 - 12 noon 
                    Fields Institute, Room 210 
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                   Jacopo De Simoi 
                    An application of standard pair techniques: bouncing ball 
                    systems in weak potentials 
                   
                    
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                Thursday June 9 
                  2 - 3 pm 
                  Fields Institute, 3rd Floor Stewart Library | 
                Peter Nandori 
                  Central limit theorem for time-dependent dynamical systems | 
              
               
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                Tuesday April 26 
                  2-3 pm 
                  Fields Institute, 3rd Floor Stewart Library | 
                Dimitry Turaev  
                   Arnold difusion in a priori chaotic systems 
                     
                    Consider an analytic Hamiltonian system which has a chaoric 
                    behaviour (a horseshoe) in every energy level from a certain 
                    interval [a,b]. We show that a generic real-analytic time-periodic 
                    small perturbation of the Hamiltonian creates orbits for which 
                    the energy grows from a to b. This is a joint work with Gelfreich. 
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                Thursday April 21 
                  3:30 - 4:30 pm 
                  Fields Institute, Room 210 | 
                Vaughn Climenhaga 
                   
                  Multifractal analysis and thermodynamics 
                   
                  Within a topological dynamical system, we study sets of trajectories 
                  characterised by their asymptotic behaviour. Such sets form 
                  a multifractal decomposition and are typically studied using 
                  either thermodynamic techniques (relying on the existence of 
                  continuously varying equilibrium states for certain potential 
                  functions) or saturation techniques (relying on some version 
                  of the specification property). 
                  In the literature, saturation has been successfully used 
                    for a more general class of decompositions than thermodynamics. 
                    Each approach gives certain results that the other does not. 
                    I will describe the results obtained using each approach and 
                    present a new application of the thermodynamic approach, based 
                    on an idea of Hofbauer, that extends it to the same generality 
                    as the saturation approach. 
                   
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                   Friday April 29 
                    2-4 pm 
                    Fields Institute, Room 210 
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                   Yakov Pesin 
                  Thermodynamics associates to inducing schemes 
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                Wednesday May 3 
                  11 am 
                  Fields Institute, Rm. 210 | 
                 
                   Tere M-Seara 
                     
                    Using two scattering maps to increase the angular momentum 
                    in the planar restricted 3-body problemD 
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                Thursday May 5 
                  3:30 - 5:30 pm 
                  Fields Institute, 3rd Floor Stewart Library | 
                 
                   Yakov Pesin 
                  Essential coexistence of hyperbolic and completely non-hyperbolic 
                    behavior 
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                Thursday May 12 
                  11 am - 12 noon 
                  Fields Institute, Room 210 | 
                Carlangelo Liverani 
                   
                  Exponential decay of correlation for piecewise cone hyperbolic 
                  contact flows 
                   
                  I will discuss some joint work with V.Baladi aiming at proving 
                  exponential decay of correlations for billiards flows. I will 
                  explain what we can achieve and what remains to be done. | 
              
               
                Tuesday May 17 
                  11-12 noon 
                  Fields Institute, Room 210 | 
                 
                   Ke Zhang 
                  The classical KAM theorem 
                  I will present a sketch of the proof of the classical Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser 
                    theorem. This is intended as an introduction to the next talk, 
                    where Sasa will talk about more modern results in this direction. 
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                   Tuesday May 24 
                    11-12 noon 
                    Fields Institute, Room 210 
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                Sasa Kocic 
                   
                  Renormalization of vector fields and construction of KAM 
                  tori 
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                Tuesday May 31 
                  11 - 12 noon 
                  Fields Institute, 3rd Floor Stewart Library | 
                 
                   Amadeu Delshams 
                     
                    A geometric mechanism of diffusion: Rigorous verification 
                    in a priori unstable Hamiltonian systems 
                     
                    Abstract: 
                    We consider a representative a priori unstable Hamiltonian 
                    system with 2+1/2 degrees of freedom, to which we apply the 
                    geometric mechanism for diffusion, and provide explicit, concrete 
                    and easily verifiable conditions for the existence of diffusing 
                    orbits. The simplification of the hypotheses allows us to 
                    perform explicitly the computations along the proof, which 
                    contribute to present in an easily understandable way the 
                    geometric mechanism of diffusion. In particular, we fully 
                    describe the construction of the scattering map and the combination 
                    of two types of dynamics on a normally hyperbolic invariant 
                    manifold.  
                   Joint work with Gemma Huguet (Center for Neural Science). 
                   
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                Thursday June 2 
                  10 - 11 am 
                  Fields Institute, Room 210 | 
                Sasa Kocic 
                   
                  Renormalization of vector fields and construction of KAM 
                  tori (Part II) | 
              
               
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