AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

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

Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on The Dynamics and Topology of Low Dimensional Flows, I
Room 149, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Michael C. Sullivan, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale mcs@math.nwu.edu
Robert W. Ghrist, University of Texas at Austin ghrist@math.utexas.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Knotted periodic orbits -- problems and obsessions
  Robert F. Williams*, The University of Texas at Austin
  (926-58-234)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Stable Ergodicity of Anosov Flows
  Keith Burns,
  Amie Wilkinson*,
  (926-58-211)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Master-Slave synchronization
  Charles P. Tresser,*, IBM
  (926-58-72)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Invariants of twist-wise flow equivalence
  Michael C Sullivan*, Southern Ill. Univ.
  (926-58-52)

Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The Dynamics and Topology of Low Dimensional Flows, II
Room 149, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Michael C. Sullivan, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale mcs@math.nwu.edu
Robert W. Ghrist, University of Texas at Austin ghrist@math.utexas.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Contact Topology and the Hydrodynamic Seifert Conjecture
  John B. Etnyre,
  Robert W. Ghrist*,
  (926-58-46)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Templates and Hopf algebras
  Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan St.
  Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
  Michael C. Sullivan, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
  (926-57-199)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Periodic points from periodic prime ends
  Marcy Barge, Montana State University State University
  Krystyna Kuperberg*, Auburn University
  (926-58-212)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Contact Anosov Perturbations of Locally Symmetric Geodesic Flows
  Jeffrey R Boland*,
  (926-70-250)
- 10:30 a.m.
  New dynamical invariants on hyperbolic manifolds.
  Philip L. Boyland*, University of Florida
  (926-58-41)

Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on The Dynamics and Topology of Low Dimensional Flows, III
Room 149, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Michael C. Sullivan, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale mcs@math.nwu.edu
Robert W. Ghrist, University of Texas at Austin ghrist@math.utexas.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  More on topological horseshoes: dynamical system topology preserved in the presence of noise
  Judy A. Kennedy,*, University of Delaware
  (926-58-117)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Invariant sets for geodesic flows
  Keith Burns*,
  Mark Pollicott,
  (926-53-93)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dense Orbits in Area Preservings Flows on Surfaces
  Michael D. Hirsch*,
  (926-58-11)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Branched surfaces and the lift of foliations to the universal cover
  Sandra L Shields*,
  (926-57-229)
- 4:30 p.m.
  "Conjectures on the discontinuous bifurcations in generic one parameter families of planar dynamical systems".
  James A. Yorke*, University of Maryland
  (926-00-289)

Sunday October 19, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The Dynamics and Topology of Low Dimensional Flows, I
Room 149, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Michael C. Sullivan, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale mcs@math.nwu.edu
Robert W. Ghrist, University of Texas at Austin ghrist@math.utexas.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Flows in Plane Fields
  John B Etnyre*,
  Robert Ghrist,
  (926-57-158)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Model of the Collinear Three-Body Problem.
  Samuel R. Kaplan*, Bowdoin College
  (926-73-20)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Interesting Attractors.
  William L. Block*, Wheaton College
  (926-58-292)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Pseudo-Anosov flows on 3-manifolds.
  Lee D. Mosher*, Rutgers University
  (926-58-293)

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