The 17th Fall meeting of the Workshop in Dynamical Systems and Related Topics

First Announcement

The workshop will be held on November 2 - 5, 2006. All lectures will be at the Mathematics 
Department (McAllister building) 
at the Penn State University Park campus reopened in 2005 after an extensive renovation.

The workshop will celebrate inauguration of the JOURNAL of MODERN DYNAMICS,
a new journal dedicated to publishing high quality research articles in active and promising areas 
of the theory of dynamical systems with particular emphasis on the mutual interaction between 
dynamics and other major areas of mathematical research, including:

Number theory,
Symplectic geometry,
Differential geometry,
Rigidity,
Quantum chaos,
Teichmüller theory,
Geometric group theory,
Harmonic analysis

For more information on JMD visit http://www.math.psu.edu/jmd

The principal theme of the workshop will be
DYNAMICS AT THE CROSSROADS OF MODERN MATHEMATICS:
RECENT PROGRESS AND PERSPECTIVES.

The workshop will feature one-hour talks, many by the editors of the journal, 
highlighting the interface between dynamical systems and various mathematical 
fields and disciplines including those featured in the JMD announcement.
In addition to the main theme there will be a geometry special session, and, 
time permitting, shorter talks by young participants, including advanced graduate students 
and post-docs, the latter most likely in parallel sessions.

Confirmed Speakers:
Dmitry Dolgopyat (Penn State and University of Maryland),
Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University),
Rostislav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M),
Gerhard Knieper (Ruhr University at Bochum)
Jens Marklof (University of Bristol),
Mark Pollicott (University of Warwick)
Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University),
Amie Wilkinson (Northwestern University)
Alistair Windsor (University of Texas, Austin)

Confirmed Speakers of Geometry session:
Bruce Kleiner (Yale)
Nikita Netsvetaev (St. Petersburg, visiting Penn State)
Christina Sormani (CUNY)

The basic funding of the workshop is provided by an NSF grant. 
Additional funding including extra support for invited speakers is provided by the Center for 
Dynamics and Geometry at Penn State.

Requests for reimbursement of local expences will be considered by the organizers.
Participants will stay at the Atherton Hotel, Sleep Inn and Days Inn Hotels.

Organizers:
Anatole Katok ([log in to unmask])
Svetlana Katok ([log in to unmask])

Geometry Special Session organized by
Dmitri Burago ([log in to unmask])

Conference staff assistant:
Hope Shaffer ([log in to unmask], 814-865-7527)

For further details, please, visit http://www.math.psu.edu/dynsys/dw.html

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