Applied Maths Seminar: Tucker -- In search of the Henon attractor

Warwick Tucker (Monash University) will come and give a talk this Wednesday at 1pm in
Carslaw 275 as usual.  We will go to lunch beforehand, leaving Carslaw at 12:05pm sharp
(all welcome, students get a free lunch).  

Title: In search of the Henon attractor 

Abstract: By performing a systematic study of the Henon map, we find low-period sinks
for parameter values extremely close to the classical ones.  This raises the question
whether or not the well-known Henon attractor is a strange attractor, or simply a
stable periodic orbit.  Using results from our study, we conclude that even if the
latter were true, it would be practically impossible to establish this by computing
trajectories of the map.  This is joint work with Zbigniew Galias.