Location:

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus.

Organizers:

Marshall Hampton (hampton@math.umn.edu)
Richard Moeckel (rick@math.umn.edu)

Schedule:

The talks will be held in Vincent Hall room 16 (on the basement level).

Friday, April 1st:

3:30 Manuele Santoprete (UC Irvine), Linear stability of the Lagrangian triangle solutions for quasihomogeneous potentials .
4:15 Coffee
5:00 Richard Montgomery (UC Santa Cruz), Fitting hyperbolic pants to a 3-body problem

Saturday, April 2nd:

8:30 Coffee
9:00 Leo Butler (Queen's U.), Invariant fibrations and geodesic flows
10:00 James Meiss (U. Colorado, Boulder), Codes for rotational orbits of the area-preserving Henon map
11:00 Matt Salomone (Northwestern U.), Constructing N-body action minimizers
12:00 - 2 Lunch
2:00 Mark Demers (Georgia Tech), Markov extensions for some dynamical systems with holes
3:00 Joel Robbin (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), The Moduli space of a Morse Smale flow

4:00 Marian Gidea (Northeastern Illinois U.), Topological methods for instability and diffusion in Hamiltonian systems

Sunday, April 3rd:

9:00 Coffee
9:30 Hassan Aref (Virginia Tech), The three-vortex problem and its ramifications
10:30 Youngna Choi (Montclair State U.), Topology of Attractors from Two-Piece Expanding Maps

There will be a party on Saturday evening at Richard Moeckel's house. Details will be provided at the seminar.

Accommodations:

The main hotel for the seminar will be the Radisson Hotel Metrodome, which is on campus. As of early March, it appears that there are no rooms left, but it may be worth checking.

Radisson Hotel Metrodome
615 Washington Avenue S.E.,
Minneapolis Minnesota 55414, US
Reservations: (800) 333-3333
Telephone: (612) 379-8888
Fax: (612) 379-8682
Email: rhmsales@usinternet.com

The Radisson is the only hotel actually on campus, but the following are quite close and probably cheaper. We do not currently have a special rate with these hotels but they may be cheaper anyway; very often online bookings beat arranged rates regardless.

Holiday Inn
Days Inn
Best Western

Sponsors:

The National Science Foundation

Registration:

There is no registration fee, however it would be helpful if you inform the organizers that you plan to attend.

Restaurants:

This guide is useful but a bit out of date. In particular, in Dinkytown we recommend Kafe 421, on 14th Ave SE, and the Loring Pasta Bar, on the corner of 14th Ave SE and 4th St, which are not included in the above link.

Weather:

Minneapolis weather