The aim of this workshop is to present open problems in this field. This will be done in an atmosphere of informal discussion and interchange of ideas.

Participants

Ll. Alsedà (UAB), F. Balibrea (UM), A. Cabada (USC), A. Cima (UAB), T. Coll (UIB), S. Costa (UAB), A. Gasull (UAB), V. Jiménez (UM), A. Linero (UM), E. Liz (UVI), M. Llorens (UAB), V. Mañosa (UPC), F. Mañosas (UAB), R. Prohens (UIB), L. Roberto (UAB), J. A. Rodríguez (UOV), J. Rubió (UPC) J.C. Tatjer (UB), J. Torregrosa (UAB).

UAB: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UB: Universitat de Barcelona, UIB: Universitat de les Illes Balears, UM: Universidad de Murcia, UOV: Universidad de Oviedo, UPC: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, USC: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, UVI: Universidade de Vigo.

Schedule

Wednesday 14th	Thursday 15th	Friday 16th
	Session 2	Session 4
	9:00-10:30	9:00-10:30
	Cofee Break	Cofee Break
	Session 2	Session 4
	11:00-12:30	11:00-...
	Visit
Lunch		Lunch
13:30		13:30
	Lunch
	14:30
Session 1	Session 3
16:00-17:30	16:00-17:30
Coffee Break	Coffee Break
Session 1	Session 3
18:00-19:30	18:00-19:30
Dinner	Dinner
21:00	21:00

Sessions

SESSION 1

(16:00-17:30): "Problems in systems of difference equations", Paco Balibrea.
"General dynamics and concrete models: The presence of difference equations", J.A. Rodríguez.
(18:00-18:45): "Periodicity and Global Periodicity in difference equations", Antonio Linero.

SESSION 2

(9:00-10:30): "Stability of fixed points and periodic solutions of difference equations", Alberto Cabada and Eduardo Liz.
(11:00-12:30): "Local Stability ==> Global Stability?: Open problems and conjectures", Francesc Mañosas and Eduardo Liz.

SESSION 3

(16.00-17:30): "Global periodicity of discret dynamical systems", Anna Cima
"About the global periodicity of rational equations of order two", Josep Rubió
(18.00-19.30): "First integrals and singularities", Víctor Mañosa
"Lyness 3-D", Armengol Gasull

SESSION 4

(9:00-10:30): "A mechanism for the fractalization of invariant curves in quasi-periodically forced 1-D maps", Joan Carles Tatjer
About the paper "Babbage equation on the circle" W. Jarczyk. Publ. Math. Debrecen 63 (2003), no. 3, 389-400.

Location

The Vilar Rural de Cardona is located in a small village providing all the comforts and services offered by a 3-star hotel.

Cutural Activities

Thursday 15th at 13:00, an one hour guied visit to "Parc Cultural de la Muntanya de Sal".