AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:38

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday March 21, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, I
Room 107, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Paul B. Trow, University of Memphis trowp@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dynamics of affine maps induced on the torus
  Roy L. Adler*, IBM Research Center
  Bruce Kitchens, IBM Research Center
  Charles Tresser, IBM Research Center
  (919-58-316)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Symbolic dynamics for almost linear maps of the torus
  Bruce P. Kitchens*, IBM Research Center
  Adler L. Adler, IBM Research Center
  Charles P. Tresser, IBM Research Center
  (919-58-122)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Tiling the integers and sofic systems
  Ethan M. Coven*, Wesleyan University
  William Geller, IUPUI
  (919-58-113)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Conjugacies Between Markov Subgroups of $(\Bbb Z/2\Bbb Z^{\Bbb Z^2}$.
  Sylvia Silberger*, Wesleyan University
  (919-58-138)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, II
Room 107, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Paul B. Trow, University of Memphis trowp@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Flow equivalence of reducible SFTs and filtered SL(Z) equivalence of their defining infinite matrices
  Mike M. Boyle*, Univ. of Maryland at College Park
  Danrun Huang, University of Washington
  (919-54-140)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Jewett-Krieger: One Step Beyond and Outer Limits
  Nicholas S. Ormes*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (919-58-139)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A ${\Bbb Z}^2$ Embedding Theorem
  Samuel J. Lightwood*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (919-58-142)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Textile Systems and Two Dimensional Shifts of Finite Type
  Kathleen Madden*, Lafayettte College
  Aimee Johnson, Swarthmore College
  (919-58-43)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, III
Room 107, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Paul B. Trow, University of Memphis trowp@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Duality and ordered cohomology of shifts of finite type
  K. H. Kim, Alabama State University
  F. W. Roush, Alabama State University
  Susan G. Williams*, University of South Alabama
  (919-58-258)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Polynomial matrices and spectra of nonnegative matrices
  K. H. Kim, Alabama State University
  Fred W. Roush*, Alabama State University
  (919-58-135)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Graph presentations for Markov shifts
  Doris Fiebig*, University of Heidelberg
  (919-58-116)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Factor theorems and embedding theorems for locally compact Markov shifts
  Ulf Fiebig*, University of Heidelberg
  (919-58-115)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, IV
Room 107, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Paul B. Trow, University of Memphis trowp@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Semigroups Associated with 2-dimensional Shifts
  Nata\v sa Jonoska*, University of South Florida
  (919-58-121)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Characterizing tilings with self-similar structures
  Natalie M Priebe*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (919-58-295)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A class of quasi-invariant measures for the $\beta$-shift
  Kennan Shelton*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (919-28-247)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Friedland's entropy for $Z^2$-actions
  William Geller*, Indiana University-Purdue University
  Mark Pollicott, Manchester University, England
  (919-58-300)

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