`Dynamics & Applications in honour of Mauricio Peixoto and David Rand`

`September 8-12, 2008 Universidade do Minho, Braga, PORTUGAL`

`Program`

Download the pdf files of

the preliminary programme
and the preliminary abstract book.

Palacio do Raio

Palacio do Raio, Braga

`Monday, September 8`

	`Plenary sessions`	`Thematic sessions`
9:00	David Rand (Warwick, UK) Some Mathematical Challenges from Systems Biology	←
9:50	`Break`
10:00	→	Dynamic Field Theory and Applications	Dynamical Systems	Kinetic Theory and Applications
11:30	`Break`
11:40	Alberto Pinto (U. Minho, Portugal) Fine Structures of Hyperbolic Diffeomorphisms
12:30	`Lunch`
15:00	Cedric Bernardin (ENS Lyon, France) Microscopic models for thermal conductivity	←
15:50	`Break`
16:00	→	Dynamic Field Theory and Applications	Dynamical Systems in Gravitation	Dynamics and Biology
17:30	`Break`
17:40	Si Wu (Sussex, UK) Tracking Dynamics of Neural Networks with Continuous Attractors	←
18:45	Salão Nobre dos Congregados (subject to confirmation) Session in Homage to Professors Mauricio Peixoto and David Rand. Musical moment organised by the undergraduate degree in musics. Short presentation of the homaged by Professor Alberto Adrego Pinto. The homaged will receive the Medal of the University given by the Vice-Reitor of University of Minho. The homaged will receive a commemorative plate given by the Vice-Reitor of IMPA.

`Tuesday, September 9`

	`Plenary sessions`	`Thematic sessions`
9:00	Welington de Melo (IMPA, Brasil) Renormalization in dynamics	←
9:50	`Break`
10:00	→	Dynamic Field Theory and Applications	Dynamical Systems	Dynamical Systems in Gravitation
11:30	`Break`
11:40	Edson de Faria (USP, Brasil) Thompson group's action on Asymptotic Teichmüller Spaces	←
12:30	`Lunch`
15:00	Gunter M. Schütz (IFF Jülich, Germany) Exact solution of the Bernoulli matching model of sequence alignment	←
15:50	`Break`
16:00	→	Dynamic Field Theory and Applications	Interacting Particle Systems	Stochastic, Dynamics and Applications in Economics
17:30	`Break`
17:40	Enrique R. Pujals (IMPA, Brasil) Hyperbolicity versus homoclinic bifurcation	←

`Wednesday, September 10`

	`Plenary sessions`	`Thematic sessions`
9:00	Saber Elaydi (Trinity U., USA) Allee effect in Biology and Economics	←
9:50	`Break`
10:00	Athanasios Yannacopoulos (Athens, Greece) The effect of expectations in economic dynamic	←
10:50	Vilton Pinheiro (Salvador, Brasil) Expanding Measures	←
11:40 -	`Lunch and free afternoon` `(see the social program`)

`Thursday, September 11`

	`Plenary sessions`	`Thematic sessions`
9:00	Claudio Landim (IMPA, Brasil) Macroscopic fluctuation theory for stationary non equilibrium states	←
9:50	`Break`
10:00	Luiz Bevilacqua (UFABC, Brasil) Dynamical Characterization of Fractal Curves	Game Theory and Economics	Dynamics and BHP Universality	Interacting Particle Systems
10:50	Antônio Roberto da Silva (UFRJ, Brasil) The graph of 1-dim foliations and the 2-point boundary value problem	'' ''
11:30	`Break`
11:40	Nilanjan Banik (CAFS, India) Reciprocal Dumping under Antidumping Enforcement and Uncertain Technology	←
12:30	`Lunch`
15:00	Maria José Pacifico (UFRJ, Brasil) Lorenz geometric systems: fastly decay for its first return map and a logarithm law for its hitting time	←
15:50	`Break`
16:00	→	Complexity of Human Excellence and Expertise	Differential Equations	Dynamics and Biology
17:30	`Break`
17:40	Livio Flaminio (U. Lille, France) On the quantitative equidistribution of nilfows and Weyl sums	←

`Friday, September 12`

	`Plenary sessions`	`Thematic sessions`
9:00	Yunping Jiang (CUNY, USA) Teichmüller Structures and Dual Geometric Gibbs Type Measure Theory for Continuous Potentials	←
9:50	`Break`
10:00	→	Fractional Calculus	Dynamics and Industrial Organization	Dynamical Systems
11:30	`Break`
11:40	Aragão de Carvalho (FRJ, Brasil) Sigma-Decomposition in Semiclassical Physics	←
12:30	`Lunch`
15:00	Milton Jara (U. Catholique de Louvain, Belgique) TBA	←
15:50	`Break`
16:00	→	Fractional Calculus	Hamiltonian Dynamics and Applications	Industrial Organization and Economics
17:30	`Break`
17:40	Mauricio Peixoto (IMPA, Brasil) A survey of focal decomposition	←