Student Dynamics Archives for Fall 2024 to Spring 2025


Dynamics on Nilmanifolds

When: Tue, September 10, 2024 - 3:00pm
Where: Kirwan 2400
Speaker: Spencer Durham ((UMD)) -
Abstract: We will discuss the construction of various nilmanifolds and dynamical systems lying on them.

Entropy and the Variational Principle

When: Tue, September 17, 2024 - 3:00pm
Where: Kirwan Hall 2400
Speaker: Hancya Han (UMD) -


The Transfer Operator

When: Wed, September 25, 2024 - 2:00pm
Where: Kirwan Hall 1310
Speaker: Max Auer (UMD) -


Entropy and the Variational Principle

When: Wed, October 9, 2024 - 2:00pm
Where: Kirwan 1310
Speaker: Hancya Han (UMD) -


Subshifts of Finite Type and Sofic Shifts

When: Mon, February 17, 2025 - 1:00pm
Where: Kirwan 1310
Speaker: Spencer Durham (UMD) -
Abstract: We define SFTs and Sofic shifts and explore some of their fundamental properties.

The conjugacy problem for subshifts

When: Mon, April 14, 2025 - 1:00pm
Where: MATH 1310
Speaker: Zaicun Li (UMD) -