AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:22

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 7, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, I
Room 433, Student Center
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
- 8:30 a.m.
  Dynamics of Markov groups.
  Bruce P. Kitchens*, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
  (903-28-163)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Topological conjugacy of endomorphisms of the $2$-torus.
  Roy L. Adler*, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
  Charles Tresser, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
  Patrick A. Worfolk, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
  (903-28-62)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Characterizing mildly mixing actions using ratio sets and orbit equivalence.
  Jane M. Hawkins*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Cesar E. Silva, Williams College
  (903-28-60)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Loosely Bernoulli in $Z^d$.
  Aimee S. A. Johnson*, Swarthmore College
  Ayse Arzu Sahin, North Dakota State University
  (903-28-19)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Relatively weak mixing and infinite skew product entropy.
  Cesar E. Silva*, Williams College
  Philippe Thieullen, University of Paris-Sud, France
  (903-28-221)

Saturday October 7, 1995, 3:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, II
Room 433, Student Center
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dyadic equivalence to actions of completely positive entropy.
  Adam Fieldsteel*, Wesleyan University
  J. Roberto Hasfura-Buenaga, Trinity University
  (903-28-65)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Restricted orbit equivalence for actions of discrete amenable groups.
  Janet Whalen Kammeyer*, United States Naval Academy
  Daniel Jay Rudolph, University of Maryland, College Park
  (903-28-35)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Interrelations between determinism, zero-entropy and orbit separation.
  Jonathan L. F. King*, University of Florida
  (903-28-58)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Construction of simple measure-preserving maps with prescribed automorphism group.
  Andres del Junco*, University of Toronto
  (903-28-150)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Strong orbit realization for minimal homeomorphisms.
  Nicholas S. Ormes*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (903-28-162)

Sunday October 8, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:29 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, III
Room 433, Student Center
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
- 8:30 a.m.
  Finite type and topological dynamics for polyominoe tilings.
  E. Arthur Robinson, Jr.*, George Washington University
  (903-28-59)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dynamics of self-similar tilings.
  Boris Solomyak*, University of Washington
  (903-28-07)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Ergodic theory and the symmetry of tilings.
  Charles Radin*, University of Texas, Austin
  (903-28-24)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A law of large numbers for the random domino tiling process.
  James Propp*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (903-28-66)

Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, IV
Room 433, Student Center
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
- 2:30 p.m.
  $G$-Maps in the centralizer of compact abelian group extensions.
  Geoffrey Ross Goodson*, Towson State University
  (903-28-64)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The mean-ergodic theorem and spectral decomposition of complete isometries.
  B. S. Yadav*, University of Delhi, India
  (903-28-10)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Comparison of generalizations of the Hopf decomposition.
  Gary L. Raduns, Jr.*, State University of New York, Binghamton
  (903-47-14)

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