RTG WORKSHOP ON COMPLEX DYNAMICS December 4 - 6, 2009 Room 4088 East Hall University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI All talks are in 4088 East Hall Abstracts Friday Dec 4 3:00 pm — Registration and coffee, 3088 East Hall; 3:30--4:30 Tien-Cuong Dinh — Entropy and dynamical degrees I 5:00--6:00 Jeffrey Diller — Plane birational maps with invariant curves I Saturday Dec 5 09:30--10:30 Elizabeth Wulcan — Dynamics of monomial maps 11:00--12:00 Tien-Cuong Dinh — Entropy and dynamical degrees II 2:00--3:00 Sarah Koch — Post-critically finite maps 3:30-- Short talks 6:30 Banquet Sunday Dec 6 09:30--10:30 Jeffrey Diller — Plane birational maps with invariant curves II 11:00--12:00 Eric Bedford — Dynamics of automorphisms of (rational) surfaces   Sponsors National Science Foundation, Michigan Mathematical Journal, Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan