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| Name: |
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Zbigniew Nitecki |
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Professor of Mathematics
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| Departmental Affiliation: |
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Mathematics Department
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| Degrees: |
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Ph.D, MA. University of California at Berkeley (1969, 1967);
SB (Mathematics), University of Chicago (1965) |
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Dynamical systems, especially in dimensions 1 and 2; braids; combinatorial/geometric group theory; graphs.
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| E-mail: |
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zbigniew.nitecki@tufts.edu
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| Other websites: |
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http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki
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| Scholarship & Research: |
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Books and monographs:
Differentiable Dynamics: an Introduction to the Orbit Structure of Diffeomorphisms (The MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1971) 297 pp.; translations: (i) Izdat Mir, Moscow, 1975; (ii) Dept. of Math., Beijing Univ. 1979.
Global structural stability of flows on open surfaces (with J. Kotus and M. Krych) Memoirs Amer. Math. Soc. vol 37, no. 261 (May, 1982) 104 pp.
Differential Equations--A First Course (with M. Guterman) Third edition 1992 (Saunders College Publishing) 787 pp.
Combinatorial patterns for maps of the interval (with M. Misiurewicz Memoirs Amer. Math. Soc. vol 94, no. 456 (November, 1991) 112pp.
Recent Papers
(For a more extensive list of publications, visit
http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/)
Crossing matrices and Thurston's canonical form for braids (with J. Burillo, M. Gutierrez & S. Krstic), Topology and its Applications vol. 118 (2002) pp 293-308
Embedding groups of graph automorphisms in surfaces (with J. Los) Topology 43 (2004) 49-69
Entropy and preimage sets (with D. Fiebig and U.-R. Fiebig) Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems 23 (2003) 1785-1806
Topological entropy and the preimage structure of maps Real Analysis Exchange 29 (2003/4) 7-39
Topological entropy of m-fold maps (with J. Bobok) Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems 25 (2005) 1-27
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