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1995 Fall Western Sectional Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, November 11-12, 1995
Meeting #905

Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu

Special Session on Flat Surface and Billiard Dynamics

  • Saturday November 11, 1995, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Flat Surface and Billiard Dynamics, I
    Room 345, Kaprielian
    Organizers:
    Eugene Gutkin, University of Southern California
    Nicolai Hayden, University of Southern California
    Christopher M. Judge, Stanford University

    • 10:00 a.m.
      Delaunay partitions.
      William A. Veech*, Rice University
      (905-58-37)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Moduli of singular flat surfaces.
      Igor Rivin*, California Institute of Technology
      (905-32-56)

  • Saturday November 11, 1995, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Flat Surface and Billiard Dynamics, II
    Room 345, Kaprielian
    Organizers:
    Eugene Gutkin, University of Southern California
    Nicolai Hayden, University of Southern California
    Christopher M. Judge, Stanford University

    • 3:00 p.m.
      Lattices in polygonal billiards.
      Clayton C. Ward*, Rice University
      (905-58-38)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Similiarity interval exchange maps, flat surfaces, and $3$-manifolds.
      Daryl Cooper*, University of California, Santa Barbara
      David Darren Long, University of California, Santa Barbara
      Alan W. Reid, Cambridge University, England
      (905-57-48)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Branched coverings of flat surfaces with applications to billiards.
      Eugene Gutkin, University of Southern California
      Christopher M. Judge*, Stanford University
      (905-51-40)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Length spectra of flat surfaces and rational polygonal billiards.
      Eugene Gutkin*, University of Southern California
      Christopher M. Judge, Stanford University
      (905-58-43)

  • Sunday November 12, 1995, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Flat Surface and Billiard Dynamics, III
    Room 345, Kaprielian
    Organizers:
    Eugene Gutkin, University of Southern California
    Nicolai Hayden, University of Southern California
    Christopher M. Judge, Stanford University

    • 9:30 a.m.
      One parameter families of billiard maps with convex tables.
      Oliver Ralph Knill*, California Institute of Technology
      (905-58-29)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Singular spectrum of discrete Schroedinger operators with disorder driven by ergodic dynamical systems.
      Lana Jitomirskaya*, University of California, Irvine
      (905-46-42)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Entropy estimates for polygon exchanges and polygonal billiards.
      Nicolai T. A. Haydn*, University of Southern California
      (905-58-54)
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