AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:20

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday March 4, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, I
Room 311, Undergraduate Building
- 8:30 a.m.
  $\B d$ topological entropy and pressure for amenable group actions.
  O. Bradley Bassler*, Wesleyan University
  (898-28-04)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Unimodal interval maps with no sigma-finite invariant measure absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure.
  Jane M. Hawkins*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Henk Bruin, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany
  (898-28-45)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The tail field and the complete orbit structure of a Borel endomorphism.
  Dorothy Maharam*, Northeastern University
  (898-28-51)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A family of generalized Riesz products.
  A. H. Dooley, University of New South Wales, Australia
  S. J. Eigen*, Northeastern University
  (898-28-80)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Flows on homogeneous spaces.
  David Witte*, Williams College
  (898-58-129)

Saturday March 4, 1995, 2:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, II
Room 311, Undergraduate Building
- 2:40 p.m.
  A simple map with no prime factors.
  Andr\'es del Junco*, University of Toronto
  (898-28-57)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Smorodinsky's conjecture on rank-one mixing.
  Terrence M. Adams*, Poughkeepsie, New York
  (898-28-66)
- 3:40 p.m.
  A dynamical system with a Z^2 centralizer.
  Aimee Johnson*, Swarthmore College
  Kye-Won Park, Ajou University, Korea
  (898-28-48)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Weak complements and ergodic infinite measure preserving transformations.
  S. J. Eigen, Northeastern University
  Arshag B. Hajian*, Northeastern University
  Shizuo Kakutani, Yale University
  (898-28-81)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Rank-one weak mixing for nonsingular transformations.
  Terrence M. Adams, Poughkeepsie, New York
  N. A. Friedman*, State University of New York, Albany
  Cesar Silva, Williams College
  (898-28-127)

Sunday March 5, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, III
Room 311, Undergraduate Building
- 9:00 a.m.
  Tilings and ergodic theory.
  Steven Eric Dworkin*, University of Texas, Austin
  (898-05-15)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Tiling representations of R actions and alpha-equivalence in two dimensions.
  Ayse Arzu Sahin*, North Dakota State University
  (898-05-67)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Distality, mean-distality and tight processes.
  Jonathan King*, University of Florida
  (898-28-23)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Ergodicity and exchangeability.
  Karl Petersen*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (898-28-20)

Sunday March 5, 1995, 2:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, IV
Room 311, Undergraduate Building
- 2:40 p.m.
  Representing families of measures by homeomorphisms.
  V. S. Prasad*, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  Vincent Christopher Peck, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
  (898-28-82)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Transformations conjugate to their inverses have even essential values.
  Geoffrey R. Goodson*, Towson State University
  Mariusz Lemanczyk, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland
  (898-28-56)
- 3:40 p.m.
  A note on ergodic averages.
  Karin Reinhold*, State University of New York, Albany
  (898-28-133)
- 4:10 p.m.
  A counterexample of the entropy of a skew product.
  Kye-Won Park*, Ajou University, Korea
  (898-28-46)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Coupling surfaces and weak Bernoulli for Z^n-actions.
  Robert M. Burton, Jr.*, Oregon State University
  Jeffrey Steif, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  (898-60-160)

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