An endomorphism of a finitely generated free group naturally descends to an injective endomorphism on the stable quotient. We establish a geometric incarnation of this fact : an expanding irreducible train track map inducing an endomorphism of the fundamental group determines an expanding irreducible train track representative of the injective endomorphism of the stable quotient. As an application, we prove that the property of having fully irreducible monodromy for a splitting of a hyperbolic free-by-cyclic group G depends only on the component of the BNS invariant $\sum \left ( G \right )$ containing the associated homomorphism to the integers. In particular, it follows that if G is the mapping torus of an atoroidal fully irreducible automorphism of a free group and if the union of $\sum \left ( G \right ) $ and $\sum \left ( G \right )$ is connected then for every splitting of $G$ as a (f.g. free)-by-(infinite cyclic) group the monodromy is fully irreducible.
This talk is based on joint work with Spencer Dowdall and Christopher Leininger.[-]

In a joint work with Sebastien Biebler, we show the existence of a locally dense set of real polynomial automorphisms of $\mathbb{C}^{2}$ displaying a stable wandering Fatou component; in particular this solves the problem of their existence, reported by Bedford and Smillie in 1991. These wandering Fatou components have non-empty real trace and their statistical behavior is historical with high emergence. The proof follows from a real geometrical model which enables us to show the existence of an open and dense set of $C^{r}$ families of surface diffeomorphisms in the Newhouse domain, each of which displaying a historical, high emergent, wandering domain at a dense set of parameters, for every $2\leq r\leq \infty $ and $r=\omega $. Hence, this also complements the recent work of Kiriki and Soma, by proving the last Taken's problem in the $C^{\infty }$ and $C^{\omega }$-case.[-]

We study law of rare events for random dynamical systems. We obtain an exponential law (with respect to the invariant measure of the skew-product) for super-polynomially mixing random dynamical systems.
For random subshifts of finite type, we analyze the distribution of hitting times with respect to the sample measures. We prove that with a superpolynomial decay of correlations one can get an exponential law for almost every point and with stronger mixing assumptions one can get a law of rare events depending on the extremal index for every point. (These are joint works with Benoit Saussol and Paulo Varandas, and Mike Todd).[-]

These lectures will address the dynamics of vector fields or diffeomorphisms of compact manifolds. For the study of generic properties or for the construction of examples, it is often useful to be able to perturb a system. This generally leads to delicate problems: a local modification of the dynamics may cause a radical change in the behavior of the orbits. For the $C^1$-topology, various techniques have been developed which allow to perturb while controlling the dynamics: closing and connection of orbits, perturbation of the tangent dynamics... We derive various applications to the description of $C^1$-generic diffeomorphisms.[-]

The notion of singular hyperbolicity for vector fields has been introduced by Morales, Pacifico and Pujals in order to extend the classical uniform hyperbolicity and include the presence of singularities. This covers the Lorenz attractor. I will present a joint work with Dawei Yang which proves a dichotomy in the space of three-dimensional $C^{1}$-vector fields, conjectured by J. Palis: every three-dimensional vector field can be $C^{1}$-approximated by one which is singular hyperbolic or by one which exhibits a homoclinic tangency.[-]