AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:32

Associate secretaries:
William A Harris, Jr, AMS wharris@math.usc.edu

Saturday November 16, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, I
Room 153, Sloan Laboratory
Organizers:
Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin llave@math.utexas.edu
Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Arizona maciejw@math.arizona.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Perturbations of Hamiltonian Normal Forms
  Jerrold E. Marsden*, Caltech
  (917-58-55)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Equichordal Point Problem and the existence of heterolinic and homoclinic connections
  Marek R. Rychlik*, University of Arizona
  (917-39-47)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The dynamics of contact structures
  Robert W. Ghrist*, University of Texas, Austin
  John B. Etnyre, University of Texas, Austin
  (917-57-53)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Some aspects of the Arnold's diffusion problem
  Michael Rudnev*, Caltech
  (917-34-84)

Saturday November 16, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, II
Room 153, Sloan Laboratory
Organizers:
Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin llave@math.utexas.edu
Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Arizona maciejw@math.arizona.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Denjoy minimal sets are far from affine.
  Alec Norton*, University of Texas, Austin
  (917-58-48)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Non-invertible Piecewise Continous Mappings and Subshifts of Finite Type
  Arek J. Goetz*, Boston University
  (917-58-74)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Estimating the dimension of spectral measures of ergodic transformations and flows.
  Oliver R. Knill*, University of Arizona, Tucson
  A. Hof, Caltch
  (917-58-37)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Topics in holomorphic dynamics
  Ricardo Perez-Marco*, Univ of Cal, Los Angeles
  (917-58-113)

Sunday November 17, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, III
Room 153, Sloan Laboratory
Organizers:
Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin llave@math.utexas.edu
Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Arizona maciejw@math.arizona.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dynamical systems with some hyperbolic properties
  Lai-Sang Young*, UCLA
  (917-58-63)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Convergence of densities for piecesise affine approximations of interval maps.
  Nicolai Haydn*, University of Southern California
  (917-58-61)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Properties of solutions of complex differential equations
  Alberto Candel*, Caltech
  (917-58-87)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Extremal rotation numbers for torus shear homeomorphisms
  Erik Doeff*, Montana State University - Bozeman
  Michal Misiurewicz, IUPUI
  (917-58-32)

Sunday November 17, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, IV
Room 153, Sloan Laboratory
Organizers:
Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin llave@math.utexas.edu
Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Arizona maciejw@math.arizona.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The integral manifold of the three-body problem
  Qiudong Wang*, UCLA
  (917-34-59)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Arnold Diffusion-Issues and Recent Results
  Stephen Wiggins*, Caltech
  (917-58-62)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Strange Attractors in Dynamical Systems
  Bjorn Birnir*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (917-58-112)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Periodic orbits and complexity for billiards in polygons
  Eugene Gutkin*, University of Southern California
  (917-58-57)

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