International conference in honor of Y.Pesin and Y.Takahashi on their 60th birthdays : DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS

- mathematical modeling, method and prediction -

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In celebration of achivements and birthdays of Y.Pesin and Y.Takahashi, the conference DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS will be held at Hokkaido University conference hall (Kita 8 Nishi 5, Kita-ku, Sapporo) March 19 - 20, 2007.

The conference will forcus on mathematical modeling and methods which are relevant in predicting complex phenomena. Special attention will be paid to the applications in neuroscience, physics and chemistry.

Dates:
March 19 - 20, 2007
Venue:
Hokkaido University conference hall (Kita 8 Nishi 5, Kita-ku, Sapporo)
Organizers:
Michiko Yuri, Ichiro Tsuda, Takao Namiki, Yuzuru Sato
Secretary: Ms. Watanabe
Program
March 19, 2007
10:00 - 11:00 : Dmitry Dolgopyat (Pennsylvania State Univ.)
" Dynamics of a bouncing ball "
11:20 - 12:20 : Stefano Luzzatto (Imperial Colledge)
" Nonuniform hyperbolicity and mathematical modelling "
14:00 - 15:00 : Michiko Yuri (Hokkaido Univ.)
" Mathematical description of intermittency - slow decay of correlations and various types of phase transition - "
15:20 - 16:20 : Yakov Pesin (Pennsylvania State Univ.)
" Genericity of chaotic dynamics "
16:40 - 17:40 : Yoichiro Takahashi (RIMS)
" From the remote past "
18:00 - 20:00 Banquet
There will be a banquet in celebration of birthdays of Y.Pesin and Y.Takahashi on 19 March at Faculty House Trillium (Kita 11 Nishi 8, Kita-ku). Details will be announced at a later date.
March 20, 2007
09:20 - 10:20 : Tamiki Komatsuzaki (Kobe Univ.)
" Dynamical Hierarchy of Transitions in Chemical Reactions "
10:35 - 11:35 : Yoji Aizawa (Waseda Univ.)
" Long time tails in Hamiltonian dynamics "
11:50 - 12:20 David Albers (Max Planck Institute for Math. Sci.)
" Identification and variation of the number of attractors in and ensemble of high-dimensional dynamical systems "
14:00 - 14:30 William Ott (Courant Institute of Math. Sci.)
" Theory and applications of rank one chaos "
14:45 - 15:15 Chun Biu Li (Kobe Univ.)
" Detection of Phase Space Geometrical Structure Buried in Time Series"
15:30 - 16:30 Ichiro Tsuda (Hokkaido Univ.)
" Chaotic Dynamics Reality in Brain Dynamics "
16:45 - 18:30
In the end of the conference, there will be a session for “more questions than answers”
A list of expected commentators is the following :
Masaki Hirata (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.):
Dynamical systems and Ergodic theory, return time distribution problem
Michihiro Hirayama (Hiroshima Univ.):
Pesin theory, Dynamical systems and Ergodic thoery
Tomoki Inoue (Ehime Univ.):
Ergodic theory, infinite invariant measure, intermittent chaos
Hiroshi Ishitani (Mie Univ.):
Transfer operators and limit theorems, fixed points of transformations and fixed points of transfer operators
Takao Namiki (Hokkaido Univ.):
Ergodic theory, complex systems, cellular automata
Yuzuru Sato (Hokkaido Univ.):
Complex systems, nonlinear dynamics, adaptive dynamics