Conference on Robustness and Partial Hyperbolicity

该研讨会旨在汇集来自世界各地的研究人员，直接对部分双曲动力系统和相关主题感兴趣。它可以被视为2001年5月在西北大学举行的国际会议的后续行动，目前正在认真考虑是否可能将其变成一个定期系列，下一届会议将于2005年在法国第戎举行。和里约热内卢的联邦大学，将有大约80名数学家参加，其中大约一半是研究生或最近的博士。美国国家科学基金会的支持，再加上组织者的支持，使得20多名研究生和年轻的和资深的数学家能够非常实质性地参与其中。（“混沌”）动力系统已经发展并扩展到远远超出双曲动力学的经典设置，由于认识到动力系统在实验现象中的许多实际应用确实需要更广泛的理论，整个学科在过去十多年中取得了特别显著的进展，成为当今动力学中最活跃的研究领域之一，它在地球仪的科学会议上的强大存在证明了这一点，特别是在最近的国际数学家大会上。

The Workshop aims to bring together the community of researchers, from all over the world, directly interested in the subject of partially hyperbolic dynamical systems, and related topics. It may be considered a follow-up to the International Conference held at Northwestern University in May 2001, and the possibility to turn this into a periodic series, with the next edition held in Dijon, France, in 2005, is under serious consideration.The 2003 workshop is organized by three of the best Brazilian mathematical research centers, IMPA, the Catholic University, and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and will be attended by some 80 mathematicians, about half of them graduate students or recent PhDs. NSF support, combined with support from the organizers, has made possible a very substantial US participation, of more than 20 graduate students and both young and senior mathematicians.The topic of partial hyperbolicity emerged in the early seventies as one main direction in which the theory of complicated ("chaotic") dynamical systems has been developing and extending much beyond the classical setting of hyperbolic dynamics, driven by the realization that many practical applications of dynamical systems to experimental phenomena do require a much broader theory.The whole subject went through particularly remarkable progress over the last decade or so, to become one of the most active research areas in dynamics nowadays, as certified by its strong presence in scientific meetings around the globe and, in particular, in the program of the last International Congresses of Mathematicians.