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, 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Aperiodicity and Order, I
Room 124, Hasbrouck Laboratory
- 8:30 a.m.
  A spectral dictionary.
  Marjorie Senechal*, Smith College
  (860-42-32)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On certain properties of deterministic disorder generated by substitutions of finite automata.
  Fran\c coise Axel*, Solid State Physics Laboratory, France
  (860-82-137)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Fault-tolerant and self-organizing cellular automata.
  Peter G\'acs*, Boston University
  (860-68-34)

Saturday October 20, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
Special Session on Aperiodicity and Order, II
Room 124, Hasbrouck Laboratory
- 1:45 p.m.
  Long range order from local rules.
  Charles Radin*, University of Texas, Austin
  (860-60-31)
- 2:15 p.m.
  Icosahedral solids: Perfect quasicrystals or random tilings?
  David P. Divincenzo*, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
  (860-82-33)
- 2:45 p.m.
  High order mixing.
  Shahar Mozes*, Hebrew University, Israel
  (860-28-12)
- 3:15 p.m.
  On the work of Godreche and Luck.
  Jean E. Taylor*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (860-82-07)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Why do real atoms form quasicrystals?
  Veit Elser*, LASSP, Cornell University
  (860-82-141)

Sunday October 21, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Aperiodicity and Order, III
Room 124, Hasbrouck Laboratory
- 7:30 a.m.
  Old theorems about the Penrose pieces.
  John Horton Conway*, Princeton University
  (860-05-139)
- 8:00 a.m.
  Self-similarity and randomness.
  Murad S. Taqqu*, Boston University
  (860-60-09)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Aperiodicity and constraints.
  Hao Wang*, The Rockefeller University
  (860-05-35)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Stabilization of quasicrystals: Energy vs. entropy.
  Sergei Burkov*, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, USSR and LASSP, Cornell University
  (860-82-138)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A non-Pisot five fold symmetric tiling with complex Fourier spectrum.
  Claude Godr\`eche*, Service de Physique du Solide et de R\'esonance Magn\'etique, France
  (860-82-140)

Sunday October 21, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
Special Session on Aperiodicity and Order, IV
Room 124, Hasbrouck Laboratory
- 1:45 p.m.
  Discussion

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