Applied/ACMS/absF13

ACMS Abstracts: Fall 2013

Rob Sturman (Leeds)

Lecture 1: The ergodic hierarchy & uniform hyperbolicity

Ergodic theory provides a hierarchy of behaviours of increasing complexity, essentially covering dynamics from indecomposable, through mixing, to apparently random. Demonstrating that a (real) system possesses any of these properties is typically difficult, but one important class of system - uniformly hyperbolic systems - make the ergodic hierarchy immediately accessible. Uniform hyperbolicity is a strong condition, and so we also describe its weaker counterpart, non-uniform hyperbolicity. Our chief example in this lecture is the Arnold Cat Map, an example of a hyperbolic toral automorphism.

Lecture 2: Non-uniform hyperbolicity & Pesin theory

The connection between non-uniform hyperbolicity and the ergodic hierarchy is more difficult, but is made possible by the work of Yakov Pesin in 1977, and extensions due to Katok & Strelcyn. Here we illustrate the theory with a linked twist map, a paradigmatic example of non-uniformly hyperbolic system.

Seminar: Rates of mixing in models of fluid flow

The exponential complexity of chaotic advection might be reasonably assumed to produce exponential rates of mixing. However, experiments suggest that in practice, boundaries slow mixing rates down. We give rigorous results from smooth ergodic theory which establishes polynomial mixing rates for linked twist maps, a class of simple models of bounded flows.

Shamgar Gurevich (UW)

The incidence and cross methods for efficient radar detection

I will explain a model of radar detection and its digital form. The latter enables us to introduce techniques from Applied Algebra (construction of specific vectors using commutative groups of operators, and generalizations of Fast Fourier Transform techniques) to suggest new efficient algorithms for radar detection. I will explain these methods, and I will demonstrate an application to the Inhomogeneous Radar Scene Problem, formulated in our interaction with engineers from General Motors (GM), who want to develop sensitive radar devices for cars.

This is a joint work with Alexander Fish (Mathematics, Sydney) and is part of a joint project with Akbar Sayeed (ECE, Madison), Kobi Scheim (GM) and Dr. Bilik (GM).

Amit Einav (Cambridge)

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Shilpa Khatri (UNC)

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