Midwest/McGehee Dynamical Systems Conference
PROGRAM
University of Minnesota
November 1-4, 2018
Minneapolis, MN
| Program | ||||
| Satellite Dynamics Conference | ||||
| Thursday, November 1 | Lind Hall 305 (IMA) | |||
| 12:30 | Pre-conference Coffee | 4th Floor Lind Hall | ||
| 1:15 | Conference Welcome | Lind Hall 305 (IMA) | ||
| 1:30-3:30 | Session 1 | Celestial Mechanics and Vortices | Session Chair: Dick Hall, Boston University | |
| 1:30 | Richard Moeckel | Further applications of McGehee’s BlowUp Method | ||
| 2:00 | Marshall Hampton | Towards a general approach to the central configuration finiteness problem | ||
| 2:30 | Gareth Roberts | Classifying Four-Body Convex Central Configurations | ||
| 3:00 | Anna Barry | Three-vortex collapse in the surface quasigeostrophic equations | ||
| 3:30 | Coffee Break | 4th Floor Lind Hall | ||
| 4:00-6:00 | Session 2 | Noninvertible Maps and Relations | Session chair: Evelyn Sander, George Mason University | |
| 4:00 | Evelyn Sander | A Computer-Assisted Study of Red Coral Population Dynamics | ||
| 4:30 | Bruce Peckham | Dynamics of some rational maps of the (real) plane | ||
| 5:00 | Mohamed Elbialy | Stable and Unstable Manifolds for Hyperbolic Bi-Semigroups and the Conley-McGehee Method | ||
| 5:30 | Hinke Osinga | Robust chaos: a tale of blenders, their computation, and their destruction | ||
| 6:30 - 8:00 | Reception/light dinner | The Graduate Hotel | ||
| Friday, November 2 | Lind Hall 305 (IMA) | |||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Light Breakfast and Coffee | 4th floor Lind Hall | ||
| 10:00-11:30 | Session 3 | Theory and Applications | Session chair: Eduardo Tabacman, Somalogic | |
| 10:00 | Richard Buckalew | Spontaneous wave formation in diffusively coupled Response / Signaling oscillators | ||
| 10:30 | Yannis Kevrekidis | No equations, no variables, no parameters, no space, no time: Data and the modeling of complex systems | ||
| 11:00 | Cordelia McGehee | Assessing the Effect of Chemotherapy on Human Cancer Cell Lines in Vitro | ||
| 11:30-1:30 | Lunch Break | |||
| 1:30-3:30 | Session 4 | Dynamical Sytems in Climate Models | Session chair: James Walsh, Oberlin College | |
| 1:30 | Esther Widiasih | The McGehee Fingerprints in Conceptual Climate Models | ||
| 2:00 | Mary Silber | Noise-induced tipping in a periodically-forced bistable system | ||
| 2:30 | Kaitlin Hill | Permafrost melt and its effects on planetary energy balance | ||
| 3:00 | Cameron Thieme | Topological Methods for Toy Climate Models: Filippov Systems and Dispersions | ||
| Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference | ||||
| 3:30 | Coffee Break | Vincent Hall | ||
| Friday, November 2 | Vincent Hall 16 | Session Chair: Rick Moeckel, UMTC | ||
| 4:30 | Richard P. McGehee | Nonuniqueness in Dynamical Systems | ||
| 6:00 | Dinner on own | |||
| Saturday, November 3 | Vincent Hall 16 | Morning Chair: Esther Widiasih, U Hawaii | ||
| 8:00 | Light Breakfast and Coffee | Vincent Hall | ||
| 9:00 | Jim Yorke | Hetero (Heterogeneous) Chaos | ||
| 10:00 | Alice Nadeau | Mathematical considerations for generalizing conceptual climate models to other planets | ||
| 11:00 | Conference Picture/Coffee Break | Vincent Hall | ||
| 11:30 | Kate Meyer | Measuring attractor intensity using non-autonomous control | ||
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch break | Afternoon Chair: Gareth Roberts, Holy Cross | ||
| 2:00 | Anca Radulescu | Asymptotic sets in networks of coupled quadratic nodes | ||
| 3:00 | Mary Lou Zeeman | A flow-kick framework for studying resilience. | ||
| 4:00 | Coffee Break | Vincent Hall | ||
| 4:30-5:30 | Poster Session | Vincent Hall | ||
| 6:00 - 8:00 | Conference Dinner and Program | Coffman Memorial Union, East Bank | ||
| Sunday, November 4
Daylight Savings Ends (set your clocks back!) | Vincent Hall 16 | |||
| 8:00 | Light Breakfast and Coffee | Vincent Hall | Session chair: Anna Barry, University of Auckland | |
| 9:00 | Konstantin Mischaikow | A Combinatorial/Algebraic Topological Approach to Nonlinear Dynamics | ||
| 10:00 | Aaron Brown | Lattices acting on manifolds | ||
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | Vincent Hall | ||
| 11:30 | Chris Jones | Long in the tooth dynamicists: what keeps us going? | ||
| 12:30-12:45 | Closing Remarks | |||
