wjgilbert@watmath.waterloo.edu (William J. Gilbert) (12/12/87)
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO FRACTAL GEOMETRY AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR SERIES January - March 1988 These seminars will mostly be aimed at a general mathematical audience and everyone is welcome to attend. ------------------------- Tue Jan 12 E. Vrscay (U of Waterloo) "Fractals and Chaos: Where's the Beef?" (talk to the Undergraduate Applied Math Club) Thu Jan 21 C. Cutler (U of Waterloo) "Hausdorff Measure, Dimension, and Dimension Estimates" Tue Jan 26 P. Blanchard (Boston U) "Newton's Method and Complex Analytic Dynamics" Thu Feb 4 R. Devaney (Boston U) "Exploding Julia Sets" Tue Feb 9 M. Barnsley (Georgia Tech) "Real World Fractals" Thu Feb 18 W. Langford (U of Guelph) "Bifurcation and Pattern Formation in Taylor-Couette Flow" Tue Feb 23 C. Essex (U of Western Ontario) "Correlation Dimension and Data Sample Size" Thu Mar 3 W. Gilbert (U of Waterloo) "Fractal Geometry and Complex Bases" Thu Mar 10 G. O'Brien (York U) "Self-Similar Processes" Thu Mar 17 J. Holbrook (U of Guelph) "Quaternionic Julia Sets" ------------------------- All lectures are scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in the Math & Computer building MC 1056. ----------------------------------------------------------------- For further information contact: Ed Vrscay (Applied Math) 519-888-4602 [ervrscay@water.waterloo.edu] Will Gilbert (Pure Math) 519-888-4097 [wjgilbert@watmath.waterloo.edu] Colleen Cutler (Statistics) 519-888-4485.