Statistical Properties of Dynamical Systems

The aim of the school is to provide PhD students with knowledge and training on basic tools needed to study statistical properties of dynamical systems.  Students are not assumed to have any knowledge in the subject.  In the first two days the lectures will aim at general background and tools needed in the area. More advanced topics  related to current advances in the area will start to appear on the third day of the school.  The three main lecture course topics are:

•   Strong statistical properties of hyperbolic and partially hyperbolic dynamical systems                                 (Carlangelo Liverani, Roma Tor Vergata)
•   Fast-slow skew product systems and convergence to stochastic differential equations (Ian                Melbourne, Warwick)
•   Open systems: fundamental questions and emerging perspectives (Mark Demers, Fairfield)