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London Mathematical Society Durham Symposium Dynamical Systems and Statistical Mechanics Monday 3rd July - Thursday 13th July 2006 A PDF reader is available free from Adobe while WMV files can be viewed using Windows Media Player or RealPlayer whose basic versions are free. Speaker Title PDF WMV Bonus S. Abe Thermodynamics based on time average and temporal extensivity of entropy P. Ashwin Dynamical systems with nonergodic properties C. Baesens Discommensuration theory and shadowing in Frenkel-Kontorova models O.F. Bandtlow Explicit bounds for the correlation specrum of real analytic expanding maps C. Beck Statistical mechanics of nonhyperbolic coupled map lattices D. Broomhead Iterated function systems and randomly forced PDEs H. Bruin Equilibrium states and Young tower constructions in one-dimensional dynamics L. Bunimovich Escape from a circle and Riemann hypotheses H. Chaté Low-dimensional chaos in populations of strongly-coupled noisy nonlinear maps E.G.D. Cohen Stationary states and fluctuations M. Courbage Computation of entropy increase for Lorentz gas and hard disks P. Cvitanovic Exact recurrent structures in shear flow turbulence R.L. Davidchack Locating periodic orbits in high-dimensional systems by stabilising transformations C. Dettmann Escape rates and correlation functions J. Elgin Pointwise dimensions of the Lorenz attractor D.J. Evans The fluctuation & nonequilibrium free energy theorems, theory & experiment M. Field Symmetry and dynamics Y. Fyodorov Counting stationary points of random landscapes as a random matrix problem P. Gaspard Pollicott-Ruelle resonances, fractals, and nonequilibrium modes of relaxation G. Gallavotti Chaotic hypothesis and some consequences P. Glendinning Sensitive dependence and strange nonchaotic attractors M. Holland Limit theorems and rapid mixing for Lorenz attractors O. Jenkinson How "spread out" are invariant measures? W. Just On critical behaviour of coupled map lattices M. Kastner Phase transitions and configuration space topology G. Keller Absence and existence of phase transitions in piecewise expanding coupled map lattices K. Khanin Circle dynamics and rigidity R. Klages Anomalous diffusion in intermittent maps P. Kleban The Farey fraction spin chain R.S. MacKay From Hamiltonian slow-fast systems to Langevin equations D. Mayer The transfer operator approach to quantum chaos on modular surfaces P.V.E. McClintock Experiments on large fluctuations and optimal control I. Melbourne Almost sure planar diffusive behaviour in the planar periodic Lorentz gas T. Monteiro Chaotic diffusion and cold atoms G. Morriss Lyapunov vectors and modes Y. Pesin Thermodynamics of systems admitting Young's tower A. Pluchino The role of synchronization for detecting community structures in complex networks H. Posch Phase-space instability for particle systems in equilibrium and stationary nonequilibrium states T. Prellberg The Farey fraction spin chain: Effects of an external field P. Quarati Use of non-Maxwellian distributions in atomic and nuclear processes of astrophysical interest A. Rapisarda Anomalous dynamics and long range interactions A. Robledo The foundations of q-statistics for the transitions to chaos L. Rondoni Hypotheses for fluctuation relations in nonequilibrium systems S. Ruffo Survey of the statistical and dynamical properties of systems with long-range interactions H.H. Rugh Cones and gauges in complex spaces: Detecting spectral gaps. D. P. Sanders Occurrence of normal and anomalous diffusion in polygonal billiard channels R. Schubert Universality in wave propagation for large times D.J. Searles Fluctuation relations for systems far from equilibrium. R. Sharp Directions and equidistribution in homology for Anosov flows N. Sidorov Iterated function systems with overlaps in higher dimensions R. Streater Entropy production in a quantum Kac model A. Stuart Derivation of homogenized coefficients from multiscale data R. Sturman The linked twist map approach to fluid mixing Y. Suhov Hausdorff dimension of the limiting set of a hyperbolic branching diffusion D. Szász The Lorentz process and random walks F. Takens KAM theory in the presence of monodromy T. Taniguchi Onsager-Machlup theory for nonequilibrium steady states and fluctuation theorems G. Tanner Quantum scaling laws in two electron atom - the role of the classical triple collision singularity H. Touchette Nonconcave entropies from generalized canonical ensembles C. Tsallis Nonextensive statistical mechanics and its nonlinear dynamical foundations M. Tyran-Kaminska Statistical limit theorems for non-invertible transformations S. Umarov Limit theorems in nonextensive statistical mechanics H. van Beijeren Chaos and the physics of non-equilibrium systems S. van Strien On the Palis conjecture E. Verbitskiy Thermodynamics of hidden Gibbs states F. Vivaldi Regular and anomalous transport from space discretization H. Waalkens Theory of classical and quantum reaction dynamics in multidimensional systems C. Walkden Some uniform ergodic theorems Poster Title PDF R. Khomeriki Long-Range Effects in Layered Spin Structures Special thanks to Teil Howard and Spyros Martzoukos for shooting the movies. The owners of the website, and the lecturers giving the talks, have no responsibility for, and will accept no liability arising from, the content of the videos. The videos may be used for educational purposes only, and use in any commercial context is forbidden. Running Shoes Clearance