COURSE ON "DYNAMICS OF BILLIARDS"

For more information and to apply, go to

https://www.smi-math.unipr.it/cortona/30/

Krzysztof Burdzy (University of Washington)

Borderline billiards theory (such as billiards with no borders)

The lecturer will discuss several models, including Archimedes' principle for an ideal gas, pinned billiard balls, rotating billiard tables, and billiard balls in a space without walls. Some techniques that are related to or arose in these areas will be presented.

Marco Lenci (Universita’ di Bologna)

An introduction to the theory of chaotic billiards

The course will give an introduction to the theory of hyperbolic billiards, developed by Sinai and his school some 50 years ago. This theory — somehow sought after since the times of Boltzmann, Poincaré and Birkhoff — has had a profound impact on the development of the theory of chaotic dynamical systems and its applications, and earned Yakov Sinai his 2014 Abel Prize. The audience will get acquainted with the basic tools of hyperbolic dynamics in the presence of singularities and will see a fairly detailed sketch of the proof of the ergodicity of the Sinai billiard, a.k.a. Lorentz gas. A minimal background in measure theory is required; some rudiments of ergodic theory are welcome  

 The two day Beijing-Toronto Dynamics Zoom Event (this Wed and Thu).
 See Speaker Schedule:

The 2025 Spring Dynamics Workshop at the University of Maryland will take place from April 3 to April 5 2025. This is the latest of a long-running series of semi-annual workshops run by the dynamics groups at Penn State University and the University of Maryland.

More information, including registration and a list of speakers, can be found on the conference webpage: https://www-math.umd.edu/dynamics-conference.html

There are limited funds to support the participation of junior mathematicians and other mathematicians without access to travel funds. The deadline to apply for funds is March 15th. We encourage everyone who is planning on attending to register as soon as possible on the website.
 

Speakers

Ilia Binder (University of Toronto, Canada)

Mario Bonk (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Danny Calegari (University of Chicago, USA)

Romain Dujardin (Sorbonne Université, France)

Peter Haïssinsky (Aix-Marseille Université, France)

Hiroyuki Inou (Kyoto University, Japan)

Luna Lomonaco (Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)

Mikhail Lyubich (Stony Brook University, USA)

Sergiy Merenkov (City University of New York, USA)

Nagiming Mok (Hong Kong University, China)

Sabyasachi Mukherjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)

Pekka Pankka (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Kevin Pilgrim (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)

Juan Rivera-Letelier (University of Rochester, USA)

Eero Saksman (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Dierk Schleicher (Aix-Marseille Université, France)

Mitsuhiro Shishikura (Kyoto University, Japan)

Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Michael Yampolsky (University of Toronto, Canada)

Artem Dudko (IMPAN, Poland, tentative)

Dzmitry Dudko (Stony Brook University, USA, tentative)

Yusheng Luo (Cornell University, USA, tentative)

Anna Zdunik (University of Warsaw, Poland, tentative)

Organizing Committee

Zhiqiang Li (Peking University, China)

Junyi Xie (Peking University, China)

Registration

To register, please complete the form: https://www.wjx.cn/vm/rCZgUoK.aspx