SEMINAIRE MERCREDI 29 NOVEMBRE 2006 11 heures !!!!!!! Salle Séminaire 5 Centre de Physique Théorique Marseille-Luminy Jorge Milhazes Freitas Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Porto Titre: Statistical stability for Hénon maps Abstract: We consider the Hénon family of maps in the plane. Benedicks and Carleson have shown the existence of a positive Lebesgue measure set of parameters for which these maps have a non-hyperbolic "strange" attractor. Moreover, Benedicks and Young proved that for each of these parameters the corresponding attractor supports a unique SRB measure. We show that the map which associates to each Benedicks-Carleson parameter the respective SRB measure is continuous with respect to weak* topology in the space of probability measures.