Title: Attractors and their stability

Speaker: Liviana Palmisano (KTH,Sweden)

Abstract

One of the fundamental problems in dynamics is to understand the attractor of a system, i.e. the set where most orbits spent most of the time. As soon as the existence of an attractor is determined, one would like to know if it persists in a family of systems and in which way i.e. its stability. Attractors of one-dimensional systems are well understood, and their stability as well. I will discuss attractors of two-dimensional systems, starting with the special case of Henon maps. In this setting very little is understood. Already to determine the existence of an attractor is a very difficult problem. I will survey the known results and discuss the new developments in the understanding of attractors, coexistence of attractors and their stability for two-dimensional dynamical systems.