A Smale-Williams solenoid attractor. (photo credit)
The Dynamical Systems Seminar features research lectures by local, national, and international speakers and includes a broad array of topics of interest in pure and applied dynamics. The seminar currently meets on Mondays from 11:00-11:50.
Mondays 11:00-11:50 am
Speaker: Inti Cruz
The classification of generalized pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms up to topological conjugacy is a central problem in the dynamics and topology of surfaces, with a long history and a variety of approaches developed by A. Zhirov, L. Mosher, M. Bestvina, M. Handel, J. Los, among others. In this talk, we will present a brief historical overview of the problem and describe an alternative approach, initiated by C. Bonatti, R. Langevin, and E. Jeandenans, based on the use of geometric Markov partitions… Read more.