Most Informal Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar (MINDS)

This seminar is very informal with lots of question from the audience. Together, the participants will read a selected text, taking turns to prepare and explain a chapter to the others. In between texts, some PhD students will present their research to the audience.

Schedule

• May 25, (16:00 - 17:00; room P624)
  Henk Knoester, Probabilistic and mechanical aspects of yarn and cable failure behavior
• May 11 (16:00 - 17:00; room P624)
  Blaž Mramor, Variational Monotone Recurrence Relations Part 2
• May 4 (16:00 - 17:00; room P624)
  Blaž Mramor, Variational Monotone Recurrence Relations Part 1
• April 20 (16:00 - 17:00; room P624)
  Lorenzo van Eijsden, Existence of Periodic Solutions on Closed Hypersurfaces
• April 13 (16:00 - 17:00; room P624)
  Martijn Zaal, The diffusion equation in non-convex domains: distances, lengths and gradients
• March 30 (16:00 - 17:00; room P624)
  Vincent Knibbeler, Automorphic Lie Algebras
• March 9 (16:00 - 17:00; room P624)
  Simone Munaó, The Poincaré-Bendixson theorem for non-linear Cauchy-Riemann equations Part 2
• February 24 (16:00 - 17:00; room P624)
  Simone Munaó, The Poincaré-Bendixson theorem for non-linear Cauchy-Riemann equations Part 1
• February 10 (16:00 - 17:00; room P624)
  Thomas Rot, Closed Characteristics Part 2: Analysis
• January 13 (16:00 - 17:00; room F612)
  Thomas Rot, Closed Characteristics Part 1: Topology

Fall 2011

This fall we have studied part of

Bernt Øksendal, Stochastic Differential Equations - An Introduction with Applications, Fifth Edition. Springer.

Academic Year 2010-2011

This academic year, we have studied

Peter Walters, An introduction to Ergodic Theory, Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics vol. 79.

During the year, some other talks have been given in MINDS as well:

• MINDS on April 29: practice for SIAM DS11
  Speakers:
  1. Blaž Mramor, Global minimizers of finite range Frenkel-Kontorova model
  2. Thomas Rot, Flow categories in Dynamical systems
• MINDS on April 8: practice for SIAM DS11
  Speakers:
  1. Simone Munaó, The Euler-Floer Characteristic and Periodic Points of two dimensional Mappings
  2. Martijn Zaal, Gradient Flow Model for Osmotic Cell Swelling

2010

• Blaž Mramor, Invariant Sets of Circle Homeomorfisms and Aubry-Mather Sets
  Friday October 1, 16:15-17:15, room S6.24
• Robert Nolet, Comparing solutions to the Dirichlet problem on different domains
  Friday September 24, 16:15-17:15, room S6.24
• Simone Munaò, Decomposition of invariant sets: the case of Attractor-Repeller decomposition
  Friday September 17, 16:15-17:15, room S6.24
• Martijn Zaal, Metric Slope of an adapted Entropy Functional
  Friday September 10, 16:00-17:00, room S.624
• Blaž Mramor, Morse approximations of periodic action functions for twist systems
  Friday 25 June, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• Thomas Rot, A categorical view on Morse Theory
  Friday 18 June, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• Martijn Zaal, Gradient flow formulation of Osmotic Cell Swelling - the radially symmetric case
  Friday 11 June, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• No seminar on Friday 4 june
• No seminar on Friday 28 May
• Simone Munaò, Differentiability of the Fixed-Point Map
  Friday 21 May, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• No seminar on Friday 14 May: university closed
• Swi Yin Cheung, Epidemiological modeling of HIV in populations with different sexual structures.
  Friday 7 May, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• No seminar on Friday 30 April: Koninginnedag
• No seminar on Friday 23 April: NMC2010
• No seminar on Friday 16 April: Workshop NDNS+
• Robert Nolet, Existence of Travelling Waves in the Diffusive VSC model (NDNS+ rehearsal talk)
  Friday 9 April, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• No seminar on Friday 2 April: Good Friday
• Gerjan Wienen, On the Existence of Homoclinic Solutions of the Suspension Bridge Equation, Using Mountain-Pass Methods and Morse Index
  Friday 26 March, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• Martijn Zaal, Gradient flows in length spaces
  Friday 19 March, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• Simone Munaò, The Fredholm index and the spectral flow in the finite dimensional case III
  Friday 12 March, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• No seminar on Friday 5 March
• Simone Munaò, The Fredholm index and the spectral flow in the finite dimensional case II
  Friday 26 February, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• Simone Munaò, The Fredholm index and the spectral flow in the finite dimensional case I
  Friday 19 February, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• Robert Nolet, Interpolation inequalities in Hölder spaces
  Friday 12 February, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• Martijn Zaal, Length structures: an introduction
  Friday 5 February, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• No seminar on Friday 29 January
• Pia Kempker, Coordinated linear systems: the story so far
  Friday 22 January, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• Simone Munaò, Proof of the 3 missing Lemmas
  Friday 15 January, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• Simone Munaò, One step back: Basic properties of C^1 mapping degree
  Friday 8 January, 16:00-17:00, room P6.24
• No seminar on Friday 1 January

2009

• No seminar on Friday 25 December.
• No seminar on Friday 18 December.
• Alvise Trevisan
  Aspects of toric topology.
  Friday 11 December, 16:00-17:00, room M6.16
• Martijn Zaal
  Constructing a Solution of the Cell Swelling Problem.
  Episode II: the Euler-Lagrange Equation .
  Friday 04 December, 16:00-17:00, room M6.16
• No seminar on Friday 27 November: cancelled.
• No seminar on Friday 20 November.
• Martijn Zaal
  Constructing a Solution of the Cell Swelling Problem.
  Episode I: the Discretized Flow .
  Friday 13 November, 16:00-17:00, room M6.16
• Pia Kempker
  Optimal control for dike levels.
  Friday 6 November, 16:00-17:00, room M6.16
• Robert Nolet
  Using the Banach contraction theorem to find special solutions to ODEs.
  Friday 30 October, 16:00-17:00, room M6.16
• Blaž Mramor
  Aubry-Mather theory on lattices.
  Friday 23 October, 16:00-17:00, room F6.54
• Robert Nolet
  Flux estimates for the diffusive VSC model.
  Friday 16 October, 16:00-17:00, room F6.54
• No seminar on Friday 9 October: JWO at the VU University
  See here for more information.
• Simone Munaò
  Leray-Schauder theory: another example.
  Friday 2 October, 16:00-17:00, room F6.54
• Simone Munaò
  Leray-Schauder theory: one example.
  Friday 25 September, 16:00-17:00, room S6.24
• No seminar on Friday 18 September
• Robert Nolet
  Some tricks for the Dirichlet problem in unbounded domains.
  Friday 11 September, 16:00-17:00, room S6.24
• Martijn Zaal
  A variational approach for the mean curvature flow.
  Friday 4 September, 16:00-17:00, room S6.24
• In July and August no seminar.
• Blaž Mramor
  Ghost circles II.
  Friday 26 June, 16:00-17:00, room S6.24
• Blaž Mramor
  Ghost circles I.
  Friday 19 June, 16:00-17:00, room S6.24
• Simone Munaò
  Leray-Schauder degree.
  Friday 12 June, 16:00-17:00, room S6.24
• Martijn Zaal
  Introduction to rectifiable currents II.
  Friday 5 June, 15:30-16:30, room S6.24
• No seminar on Friday 29 May.
• No seminar on Friday 22 May: all PhD-students are abroad
• No seminar on Friday 15 May: all PhD-students are abroad
• special seminar Poster session.
  Thursday 14 May, 16:00-17:00, room S6.24
• Robert Nolet
  The diffusive VSC model.
  Friday 8 May, 16:00-17:00, room S6.24
• No seminar on Friday 1 May: university closed
• Michelangelo Vargas
  Matched asymptotics and the Willmore flow. The outer solution.
  Friday 24 April, 16:00-17:00, room S6.24
• Simone Munaò
  Nonlinear Cauchy-Riemann equations:
  Proof of the compactness of solutions.
  Friday 17 April, 16:00-17:00, room S6.24
• No seminar on Friday 10 April: Good Friday
• Martijn Zaal
  Rehearsal talk for NMC 2009 Groningen.
  Friday 03 April, 11:30-12:15, room S6.48
• Simone Munaò
  Introduction to the nonlinear Cauchy-Riemann equations.
  Friday 03 April, 16:00-17:00, room S6.24
• Blaž Mramor
  Introduction to Aubry-Mather theory II.
  Friday 27 March, 16:00-17:00, room S6.48
• Blaž Mramor
  Introduction to Aubry-Mather theory I.
  Friday 20 March, 16:00-17:00, room S6.48
• Martijn Zaal
  Introduction to rectifiable currents.
  Friday 13 March, 15:30-16:30, room S6.48
• Robert Nolet
  The VSC model, linear stability.
  Friday 6 March, 16:00-17:00, room S6.48
• Michelangelo Vargas
  Introduction to matched asymptotics.
  Friday 27 February, 16:00-17:00, room S6.48
• No seminar on Friday 20 February: cancelled.
• Bob Rink
  Introduction to small divisor problems II.
  Friday 13 February, 16:00-17:00, room S6.48
• Bob Rink
  Introduction to small divisor problems.
  Friday 6 February, 16:00-17:00, room S6.48
• No seminar on Friday 30 January: workshop.
• No seminar on Friday 23 January: cancelled.
• No seminar on Friday 16 January: inaugural lecture.
• Martijn Zaal
  Gradient flows in the Wasserstein space.
  Friday 9 January, 16:00-17:00, room R2.40

2008

• Robert Nolet
  From formal asymptotics to asymptotic expansions.
  Friday 19 December, 16:00-17:00, room R2.39 No seminar on Friday 12 December: farewell address.
• Michelangelo Vargas
  Matched asymptotics and the Willmore flow. The inner solution continued.
  Friday 5 December, 15:30-16:30, room R2.40 No seminar on Friday 28 November: inaugural lecture.
• Simone Munaò
  Conservation laws and Saint-Venant like systems.
  Friday 21 November, 16:00-17:00, room R2.40
• Martijn Zaal
  Curves of probability measures and the continuity equation.
  Friday 14 November, 16:00-17:00, room R2.39
• Martijn Zaal
  Optimal transport and gradient flows in metric spaces.
  Friday 07 November, 16:00-17:00, room R2.40
• Robert Nolet
  The VSC-model; Linearized evolution and eigenfunctions.
  Friday 31 October, 16:00-17:00, room R2.40
• Michelangelo Vargas-Rivera
  Matched asymptotics and the Willmore flow. The inner solution.
  Friday 17 October, 16:00-17:00, room R2.39
• Blaž Mramor
  Strong stable foliation of a partially hyperbolic attractor
  Friday 3 October, 15:30-16:30, room R2.39
• Robert Nolet
  The VSC-model, existence of solutions
  Friday 26 September, 16:00-17:00, room R2.39
• Martijn Zaal
  Linear stability of osmotic cell swelling
  Friday 19 September, 16:00-17:00, room R2.39
• Michelangelo Vargas-Rivera
  Introduction to the Willmore flow
  Friday 12 September, 16:00-17:00, room R2.39 The seminar continued for a while without proper announcement on the website.
  We reconnect in September 2008.
• Michelangelo Vargas-Rivera
  The Ricci flow continued
  Friday 21 September, 16:00-17:00, room TBA
• Michelangelo Vargas-Rivera
  Introduction to Ricci flow
  Friday 20 July, 16:00-17:00, room TBA
• Michelangelo Vargas-Rivera
  Ricci curvature
  Friday 29 June, 16:00-17:00, room TBA
• Federica Pasquotto
  Geometrization in 3 dimensions
  Friday 22 June, 16:00-17:00, room TBA
• Federica Pasquotto
  Geometrization in 2 dimensions
  Friday 15 June, 15:00-16:00, room TBA No seminar on 8 June: organistional meeting No seminar on 1 June (DS07 in Snowbird). No seminar on 25 May: informal poster session No seminar on 18 May (holiday).
• Wojtek Wojcik
  Floer Homology for Braids on the Two-disc
  Friday 11 May, 16:00-17:00, room TBA No seminar on 4 May (Amsterdam PhD seminar). No seminar on 27 April (NDNS+ in Twente).
• Wojtek Wojcik
  TBA
  Friday 20 April, 16:00-17:00, room TBA No seminar on 13 April (NMC in Leiden). No seminar on 6 April (holiday).
• Hala Elrofai
  The wedge and the Evans function
  Friday 30 March, 16:00-17:00, room TBA
• Hala Elrofai
  Evans functions and wedges
  Friday 23 March, 16:00-17:00, room TBA
• Michelangelo Vargas-Rivera
  Curvatures
  Friday 1 March, 16:00-17:00, room TBA
• Michelangelo Vargas-Rivera
  Riemann curvature
  Friday 9 March, 16:00-17:00, room TBA
• Vincent Guyonne
  The Evans function for flame balls
  Friday 2 March, 16:00-17:00, room TBA
• Vincent Guyonne
  Linearisation around flame balls
  Friday 23 February, 16:00-17:00, room TBA
• Miro Kramar
  Properties of the generating function
  Friday 16 February, 16:00-17:00, room TBA
• Miro Kramar
  Lagrangians and Hamiltonians
  Friday 9 February, 16:00-17:00, room TBA No seminar on Friday 2 February (study group)
• Wojtek Wojcik
  Genericity and transversality
  Friday 26 January, 16:00-17:00, room TBA
• Wojtek Wojcik
  Sard and Smale
  Friday 19 January, 16:00-17:00, room TBA

2007

• Hala Elrofai
  Instability of flame fronts
  Friday 15 December, 16:00-17:00, F6.64 No seminar on 8 December (talks in Utrecht).
• Hala Elrofai
  Stability of flame fronts
  Friday 1 December, 16:00-17:00, F6.64
• Michelangelo Vargas-Rivera
  Connections and curvature
  Friday 24 November, 16:00-17:00, F6.64
• Michelangelo Vargas-Rivera
  Vectors and tensors
  Friday 17 November, 16:00-17:00, F6.64
• Vincent Guyonne
  Flame balls
  Friday 10 November, 16:00-17:00, F6.64
• Miro Kramar
  Non-proper braid classes
  Friday 3 November, 16:00-17:00, F6.64
• Miro Kramar
  Fourth order equations
  Friday 27 October, 16:00-17:00, F6.64
• Wojtek Wojcik
  Floer homology
  Friday 20 October, 16:00-17:00, F6.64
• Wojtek Wojcik
  Cauchy-Riemann equations and Floer homology
  Friday 13 October, 16:00-17:00, F6.64
• Hala Elrofai
  The Evans function for flame fronts
  Friday 6 October, 16:00-17:00, F6.64
• Hala Elrofai
  Bifurcation diagrams of flame fronts
  Friday 29 September, 16:00-17:00, F6.64
• Michelangelo Vargas-Rivera
  Introduction to curvature
  Friday 22 September, 16:00-17:00, R2.40
• Michelangelo Vargas-Rivera
  Introduction to curvature
  Thursday 29 June, 16:00-17:00, R2.40
• Vincent Guyonne
  Instabilities and flameballs
  Tuesday 27 June, 16:00-17:00, R2.40
• Wojtek Wojcik
  Cauchy Riemann equations
  Friday 23 June, 16:00-17:00, R2.40
• Hala Elrofai
  Flame fronts and the Evans function
  Friday 16 June, 16:00-17:00, R2.40
• Miro Kramar
  The Conley index of braid classes
  Thursday 8 June, 13:00-14:00, R2.40
• Michelangelo Vargas-Rivera
  Introduction to differential geometry
  Wednesday 7 June, 13:00-14:00, R2.40
• Vincent Guyonne
  Flameballs: existence
  Tuesday 6 June, 16:00-17:00, R2.40 No seminar on 26 May (university holiday). No seminar on 19 May, workshop instead.
• Wojtek Wojcik
  Floer homology and Cauchy-Riemann equations
  Friday 12 May, 16:00-17:00, R2.40 No seminar on 5 May, workshop instead.
• Hala Elrofai
  Radiative flame fronts
  Friday 28 April, 16:00-17:00, R2.40 No seminar on 21 April, taking a break instead. No seminar on 14 April (university holiday). No seminar on 7 April, NDNS+ seminar instead (12:30-15:15, F1.53).
• Miro Kramar
  Braids and the Conley index
  Friday 31 March, 16:00-17:00, R2.40
• Vincent Guyonne
  Flameballs and stability
  Friday 24 March, 16:00-17:00, R2.40 No seminar on 17 March, colloquium instead.
• Wojtek Wojcik
  Floer homology and more stuff
  Friday 10 March, 16:00-17:00, R2.40
• Wojtek Wojcik
  Flxoer homology and stuff
  Friday 3 March, 16:00-17:00, R2.40
• Hala Elrofai
  Radiative flame fronts and stuff
  Friday 25 Februari, 11:00-12:00, R2.30
• Miro Kramar
  Braids and stuff
  Friday 17 Februari, 11:00-12:00, R2.39
• Vincent Guyonne
  Flameballs and stuff
  Wednesday 8 Februari, 16:15-17:15, R2.23 Due to its informality we did not keep track of the seminar on this page for a while (a year).

2006

• Federica Pasquotto
  The proof of the Arnold conjecture 2
  Thursday 9 December, 16:00-17:30, R2.23
• Rob van der Vorst
  The proof of the Arnold conjecture 1
  Thursday 2 December, 16:00-17:30, R2.23
• Jan Bouwe van den Berg
  Discussion concerning the index
  Thursday 25 November, 16:00-17:30, R2.23
• Andreas Daffertshofer
  Complicated Complexity
  Thursday 24 November, 10:00-11:00, R2.31
• Jan Bouwe van den Berg
  Morse theory via Floer homology
  Thursday 18 November, 16:00-17:30, R2.23
• Federica Pasquotto
  Duality in (co)homology
  Thursday 4 November, 16:45-17:30, R2.23
• Wojtek Wojcik
  More Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms
  Thursday 23 October, 16:00-16:45, R2.23
• Wojtek Wojcik
  Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms
  Thursday 16 October, 16:00-17:30, R2.23
• Federica Pasquotto
  Cohomology in one hour (and a half)
  Thursday 7 October, 16:00-17:30, R2.23
• Federica Pasquotto
  Homology in one hour (and a half)
  Thursday 30 September, 16:00-17:30, R2.23
• Rob van der Vorst
  Introduction to Floer homology 2
  Thursday 23 September, 16:00-17:30, R2.23
• Rob van der Vorst
  Introduction to Floer homology 1
  Thursday 16 September, 16:00-17:30, P0.20
• Joost Hulshof
  The Navier-Stokes equations
  Tuesday 15 June, 15:30-17:15, R2.31
• Jose Antonio Rodriquez
  Patterns described by discrete and continuous dynamical systems
  Wednesday 2 June, 11:15-12:00, R2.24
• Pascal Noble
  Persistence of roll waves under viscous perturbation
  Tuesday 30 March, 16:00-17:00, R2.49
• Wojciech Wojcik
  Chaos in two-dimensional twist maps
  Thursday 4 December, 16:00-16:45, R2.24
• Sarah Day
  Index techniques and bifurcation diagrams
  Thursday 20 November, 16:15-17:00, R2.23
• Carlota Cuesta
  Samll amplitude travelling waves for a one-dimensional BGK model
  Thursday 6 November, 11:00-11:45, P0.20
• Sarah Day
  A rigorous numerical method in infinite dimensions
  Thursday 23 October, 15:00-15:45, R2.32