AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:41

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday October 24, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Dynamics, I
Room E-180, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Karen M. Brucks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee kmbrucks@csd.uwm.edu
Beverly E. J. Diamond, University of Charleston bdiamond@nsf.gov
- 8:30 a.m.
  Closing the gaps of a Cantor Julia set in quadratic polynomials.
  Pau Atela*, Smith College
  (927-58-147)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quadratic Julia sets and irrationally indifferent periodic orbits
  John C. Mayer*, UAB
  (927-58-240)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Indecomposable Continua as Boundaries of Siegel Disks
  James T. Rogers, Jr.*, Tulane University
  (927-58-221)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Recurrent critical points and typical limit sets of rational maps
  Alexander Blokh, UAB
  John Mayer, UAB
  Lex G. Oversteegen*, UAB
  (927-58-230)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Higher dimensional ``solenoids'' as bundles
  Robert F. Williams*,
  (927-58-40)

Friday October 24, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Dynamics, II
Room E-180, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Karen M. Brucks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee kmbrucks@csd.uwm.edu
Beverly E. J. Diamond, University of Charleston bdiamond@nsf.gov
- 2:30 p.m.
  Transverse homoclinic orbits without horseshoes
  Evelyn Sander*, CDSNS, Georgia Tech
  (927-58-75)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Generic properties of open billiards
  R. Daniel Mauldin*, Univ. of North Texas
  (927-58-103)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Conjectures on Discontinuous Bifurcations in Two Dimensions
  James A. Yorke*, University of Maryland
  (927-58-242)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Dynamics of Basic Sets
  Kathleen T. Alligood*, George Mason University
  (927-58-246)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Smooth Flows on Exotic Manifolds
  John B. Etnyre, Stanford University
  Robert W. Ghrist*, Univ. of Texas, Austin
  (927-58-190)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The dynamics of surface homeomorphisms
  Andr\'e S. de Carvalho*, University of California at Berkeley
  (927-58-292)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Prime End Rotation Numbers for Attractors in the Henon Family
  Chris Cleveland,*, UCLA
  (927-58-171)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Entropy and Rotation Intervals for Circle Maps Near Saddle-node Bifurcations
  Todd R. Young*, Ohio University
  (927-58-131)

Saturday October 25, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Dynamics, III
Room E-180, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Karen M. Brucks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee kmbrucks@csd.uwm.edu
Beverly E. J. Diamond, University of Charleston bdiamond@nsf.gov
- 8:30 a.m.
  Homeomorphisms of one-dimensional hyperbolic attractors
  James Jacklitch,*, Montana State University
  (927-58-174)
- 9:00 a.m.
  What are the $\omega$ limit sets?
  Paul D. Humke*, St. Olaf College
  (927-26-158)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Friedland's Entropy for Commuting Maps
  William Geller*, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
  Mark Pollicott, Manchester University
  (927-58-265)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Perturbations of interval maps
  Micha{\l} Misiurewicz*, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
  (927-58-178)
- 10:30 a.m.
  One-dimensional dynamics, inverse limit spaces, and the pseudoarc
  Louis S. Block*, University of Florida
  James E. Keesling, University of Florida
  (927-54-168)

Saturday October 25, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Dynamics, IV
Room E-180, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Karen M. Brucks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee kmbrucks@csd.uwm.edu
Beverly E. J. Diamond, University of Charleston bdiamond@nsf.gov
- 2:30 p.m.
  More on topological horseshoes: dynamical system topology preserved in the presence of noise
  Judy A. Kennedy,*, University of Delaware
  (927-58-161)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Entropy and Nonlinearity
  Charles P. Tresser,*, IBM
  (927-58-122)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Entropy of Annulus Homeomorphisms
  Marcy Barge,*, Montana State University
  Thor Matison,, MSU
  (927-58-226)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Conley index of a fixed point of a surface homeomorphism
  John Franks*, Northwestern University
  (927-58-239)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Invariant sets and their shape
  Krystyna M Kuperberg*, Auburn University
  (927-58-165)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A computer implementation of the Bestvina-Handel algorithm
  Ringland John*, SUNY Buffalo
  Menasco William, SUNY Buffalo
  (927-54-198)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Constructing Markov Partitions for Psuedo-Anosov Homeomorphisms
  Elyn Rykken*, Indiana University Northwest
  (927-58-251)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Partitions of Markov type in the absence of hyperbolicity
  Marian Gidea*, University of Bucharest, Romania
  (927-58-248)

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