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John Smillie : Polygonal billiards and low complexity dynamical systems

Posted by , part of the Departmental Colloquium.

At
March 20, 2009, 3 p.m.
In
SEO 636
Abstract
Low complexity and high complexity dynamical systems differ from one another in fundamental ways. I will discuss some of the properties of low complexity systems and some of the special techniques which can be used to understand them in the situation that arises in polygonal billiards.