AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:44

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Associate secretaries:
W Wistar Comfort, AMS wcomfort@wesleyan.edu

Saturday October 20, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, I
Room 203, Lederle Graduate Research Center
- 8:00 a.m.
  Some rigorous results for the Greenberg-Hastings model.
  Richard Durrett, Cornell University
  Jeffrey Steif*, Cornell University
  (860-60-79)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Invariants for shift equivalence of matrices of polynomials.
  David Handelman*, University of Ottawa
  (860-28-71)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A characterization of ergodic dissipative flow.
  Yuji Ito*, Keio University, Japan
  (860-28-47)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion

Saturday October 20, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, II
Room 203, Lederle Graduate Research Center
- 1:45 p.m.
  An ergodic transformation with no non-trivial self-even equivalences.
  Adam Fieldsteel*, Wesleyan University
  Daniel J. Rudolph, University of Maryland, College Park
  (860-28-43)
- 2:15 p.m.
  Kronecker-Gaussian processes and some counterexamples.
  Andr\'es del Junco*, University of Toronto
  (860-28-45)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Uniformly sweeping out does not imply mixing.
  T. M. Adams, State University of New York, Albany
  N. A. Friedman*, State University of New York, Albany
  (860-28-38)
- 3:15 p.m.
  A classification of the isometric extensions of a multidimensional Bernoulli shift.
  Janet Whalen Kammeyer*, United States Naval Academy
  (860-28-42)
- 3:45 p.m.
  On the classification of Z^d-actions up to Kakutani equivalence.
  J. Roberto Hasfura*, Trinity University
  (860-28-131)

Sunday October 21, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, III
Room 203, Lederle Graduate Research Center
- 7:30 a.m.
  On the topological entropy of transitive maps of the interval.
  Melissa C. Hidalgo*, University of Hartford
  (860-58-46)
- 8:00 a.m.
  A weak type inequality for some nonsingular transformations.
  Idris Assani*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (860-28-41)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Entropy of a skew product with a Z^2-action.
  Kyewon Park*, Bryn Mawr College
  (860-28-37)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Product structure and joinings for endomorphisms, I.
  Karma Dajani, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Jane Hawkins*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (860-28-39)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Product structure and joinings for endomorphisms, II.
  Karma Dajani*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Jane Hawkins, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (860-28-40)

Sunday October 21, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, IV
Room 203, Lederle Graduate Research Center
- 1:45 p.m.
  Commuting endomorphisms of the circle.
  Aimee Johnson*, Tufts University
  Daniel J. Rudolph, University of Maryland, College Park
  (860-28-44)
- 2:15 p.m.
  Ergodic theory on infinite measure spaces.
  S. J. Eigen*, Northeastern University
  (860-28-67)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Fixed points for measure preserving homeomorphisms.
  V. S. Prasad*, University of Lowell
  (860-28-08)

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