WORKSHOP ON DYNAMICS AND RANDOMNESS
	December 11-15, 2000

Organizing Committee

• Alejandro Maass (Universidad de Chile)

• Jaime San Martín (Universidad de Chile)

Scientific Committee

• Pierre Collet (Ecole Polytechnique Paris)

• Eric Goles (Universidad de Chile)

• Bernard Host (Université Marne la Vallée)

• Mike Keane (CWI, Amsterdam)

• Servet Martínez (Universidad de Chile)

The Workshop on Dynamics and Randomness will be held at the Center of Mathematical Modeling of the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
(Blanco Encalada 2120, 7th floor).
Our courses and conferences will cover topics in symbolic dynamics, ergodic theory, topological dynamics and probability theory.

Courses (3 sessions, 1 hr)

• Valentin Afraimovich (Instituto de Investigación en Comunicación Optica, San Luis Potosí).
  Dimension-Like Characteristics of Invariant Sets in Dynamical Systems.

• Michel Émery (Université de Strasbourg).
  Some Old and New Tools in the Study of Filtrations.

• Karl Petersen (University of North Carolina).
  Information Compression and Retention in Dynamical Processes.

• Bernard Schmitt (Université de Bourgogne).
  Poincaré and Isoperimetric Inequalities for g-Measures. Spectral Gap. Concentration of g-Measures.

Confirmed Conferences

• François Blanchard (Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy, Marseille).
  On Various Definitions of Chaos.

• Mike Boyle (University of Maryland).
  Positive K-Theory for Classification Problems in Symbolic Dynamics.

• Dogan Çömez (North Dakota State University).
  Wiener - Wintner Theorem for Superadditive Processes an a New Class of good Weights.

• Andres del Junco (University of Toronto).
  Mixing, Couplings and Rohlin's Problem in Ergodic Theory.

• Fabien Durand (Centro de Modelamiento Matemático, Santiago).
  Limit Laws of Entrance Times for Substitution Systems.

• Jan Kiwi (Pontificia Universidad Católica).
  Real Laminations and Polynomial Julia Sets.

• Rafael Labarca (Universidad de Santiago de Chile).
  The Lexicographical World and the Bifurcation Theory for Two Parameter Families of Lorenz Maps on the Real Line.

• Yves Lacroix (Université Jules Verne).
  Limit Laws for Entrance Times for Strictly Ergodic Subshifts.

• Servet Martínez (Universidad de Chile).
  Geometric Decay and Monotone Markov Chain.

• Ali Messaoudi (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro).
  Combinatorial and Dynamical Properties of a Class of Fractals.

• Roger J. Metzger (Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima).
  Stochastic Stability of Lorenz Attractors.

• Masakazu Nasu (Hiroshima University).
  Textile Systems and Expansive Invertible Onesided Cellular Automata.

• Marcus Pivato (University of Toronto).
  Limit Measures for Affine Cellular Automata.

• Juan Rivera-Letelier (Universidad Católica del Norte and SUNY at Stony Brook, New York).
  Relations between Collet-Eckmann Type Properties for Iterations of Rational Maps of the Riemann Sphere.

• Bernardo San Martín (Universidad Católica del Norte).
  Resonant Butterfly Bifurcation to a Transitive Attractor of Lorenz Type.

• Klaus Schmidt (University of Vienna).
  Ergodic Properties of Toral Automorphisms.

• Dominique Schneider (Université Jules Verne).
  Ergodic's Theorems for Random Processes.

• Kennan Shelton (Rhodes College).
  Ergodic Properties of a Class of Erdös Measures.

• Cesar E. Silva (Williams College).
  On Mixing Notions and Rank One Examples in Infinite Measure.

• Jean-Paul Thouvenot (Université Pierre et Marie Curie).
  A New Characterization of Splitting Transformations.

• Richard Urzúa (Universidad Católica del Norte).
  Affine Diophantine Actions of Z^p and Cohomology of Foliations.

• Xiangdong Ye (University of Science and Technology of China).
  Dynamics of Pointwise Recurrent Homeomorphisms.

Sponsors:

Financial support:

Gladys Cavallone
e-mail:dynamics@dim.uchile.cl
Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática
Universidad de Chile
Casilla 170, correo 3
Santiago, Chile
Telephone: 56-2-6711530, Fax: 56-2-6883821.

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