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Central 1994 Spring Sectional Meeting
Manhattan, KS, March 25-26, 1994
Meeting #891

Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Special Session on Convergence Problems in Ergodic Theory

  • Friday March 25, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Convergence Problems in Ergodic Theory, I
    Room 328, Waters

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Ergodic measures for the Pascal adic and ratio limit theorems for transient Markov chains.
      Karl Petersen*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      (891-28-81)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Oriented local entropies for commuting automorphisms.
      Vijay Chothi, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
      Graham Everest, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
      Thomas Ward*, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
      (891-22-18)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      A cocycle theorem with an application to Rosenthal sets.
      Peter O. Schwartz*, Ohio State University, Columbus
      (891-28-121)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Calculation of the limit in the return times theorem for Dunford-Schwartz operators.
      James H. Olsen*, North Dakota State University
      (891-28-204)

  • Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Convergence Problems in Ergodic Theory, II
    Room 328, Waters

    • 3:00 p.m.
      Convolution powers of spread-out probabilities.
      Michael Lin*, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
      Rainer Wittmann, University of G\"ottingen, Germany
      (891-22-225)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Singular spectral type of rank one transformations.
      Ivo Klemes, McGill University, Canada
      Karin Reinhold*, State University of New York, Albany
      (891-28-171)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      The convergence problems arising from harmonic analysis and ergodic theory.
      Guodong Li*, Ohio State University, Columbus
      Joseph Rosenblatt, Ohio State University, Columbus
      (891-40-138)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Strongly approximately transitive actions of a semisimple Lie group and boundaries of random walks.
      Wojciech Jaworski*, Dalhousie University
      (891-28-172)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Interval translation mappings.
      Michael Boshernitzan, Rice University
      Isaac Kornfeld*, North Dakota State University
      (891-58-173)

  • Saturday March 26, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Convergence Problems in Ergodic Theory, III
    Room 328, Waters

    • 8:30 a.m.
      The rate of entropy convergence.
      Frank Blume*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      (891-28-97)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      On maximal functions.
      Alexandra Bellow*, Northwestern University
      (891-28-191)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      An example of compact extensions of Kronecker factors and skew products of irrational rotations with finite groups.
      Qing Zhang*, Clark College
      (891-28-205)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      The Banach principle in Riesz spaces.
      Radu Zaharopol*, State University of New York, Binghamton
      (891-47-168)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Residual behavior of induced maps.
      Andr\'es del Junco, University of Toronto
      Daniel J. Rudolph*, University of Maryland, College Park
      (891-28-56)

  • Saturday March 26, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Convergence Problems in Ergodic Theory, IV
    Room 328, Waters

    • 3:00 p.m.
      On the connection between Beta compactifications and enveloping semigroups of subshifts.
      Kenneth Berg, University of Maryland, College Park
      David Gove, California State University, Bakersfield
      Kamel N. Haddad*, California State University, Bakersfield
      (891-54-131)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Coding techniques for non-singular maps.
      Andr\'es del Junco*, University of Toronto, Canada
      Cesar Silva, Williams College
      (891-28-174)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Square functions in ergodic theory.
      Roger L. Jones*, DePaul University
      I. Ostrovskii, Academy of Science of Ukrainian, Ukraine
      J. Rosenblatt, Ohio State University, Columbus
      (891-47-96)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Asymptotic behavior of one-dimensional discrete velocity models in a slab.
      Christopher Bose*, University of Victoria
      Peter Grzegorczyk, University of Victoria
      Reinhard Illner, University of Victoria
      (891-28-207)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Moving ergodic theorems for superadditive processes.
      Sebastian Ferrando*, University of Toronto
      (891-28-111)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      Multiple recurrence along polynomials and combinatorics.
      Vitaly Bergelson*, Ohio State University, Columbus
      (891-28-127)
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