AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:49

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

Saturday September 12, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Topological Dynamics, I
Room 1007, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Roger L. Jones, DePaul University rjones@condor.depaul.edu
Randall McCutcheon, Wesleyan College cutch@claude.math.wesleyan.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Joint ergodicity along sequences of intervals.
  Sergey G Butkevich*, The Ohio State University
  (935-28-214)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Worst Sums in Ergodic Theory.
  Mustafa Akcoglu, University of Toronto
  Roger Jones, DePaul University
  Joseph Rosenblatt*, University of Illinois
  Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis
  (935-28-34)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Ergodicity and periodic orbits for billiards in polygons.
  Eugene Gutkin*, USC
  (935-58-17)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Uncertainty Principle for Polygonal Billiards and Geodesics on the Surface of Polyhedra.
  Gregory Galperin*, Eastern Illinois University
  (935-58-167)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Rotation numbers for maps of the $n$-od.
  Alexander Blokh, University of Alabama in Birmingham
  Michal Misiurewicz*, IUPUI
  (935-58-188)

Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Topological Dynamics, II
Room 1007, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Roger L. Jones, DePaul University rjones@condor.depaul.edu
Randall McCutcheon, Wesleyan College cutch@claude.math.wesleyan.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  $\Bbb Z^d$ Staircase Actions.
  Terrence Adams, Ohio State University
  Cesar E. Silva*, Williams College
  (935-28-191)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On Ergodic 2-to-1 Endomorphisms.
  Stanley J Eigen*, Northeastern University
  (935-28-176)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A problem in ergodic theory.
  Karin Reinhold*, University at Albany, SUNY
  (935-28-169)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Results in Polynomial Recurrence for Actions of Fields.
  Paul G. Larick*, Dept of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43201
  (935-46-58)
- 5:00 p.m.
  An infinitary polynomial Hales-Jewett theorem.
  Randall G McCutcheon*, University of Maryland
  (935-05-121)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Recent problems I have not been able to solve.
  M\'at\'e Wierdl*, University of Memphis
  (935-28-77)

Sunday September 13, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Topological Dynamics, III
Room 1007, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Roger L. Jones, DePaul University rjones@condor.depaul.edu
Randall McCutcheon, Wesleyan College cutch@claude.math.wesleyan.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Differential and ergodic transforms.
  Roger L. Jones*, DePaul University
  Joseph Rosenblatt, University of Illinois at Urbana
  (935-26-38)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Multiple mixing for rank one group actions.
  Andres del Junco*, University of Toronto
  Reem Yassawi, McGill University
  (935-28-78)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Even Kakutani Equivalence via $\vec\alpha$ and $\vec\beta$ equivalences in two dimensions.
  Kyewon Koh Park, Ajou University
  Ay\c se A. \c Sahin*, North Dakota State University
  (935-28-164)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Coboundaries for commuting transformations.
  Isaac Kornfeld*, North Dakota State University
  (935-28-151)

Sunday September 13, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Topological Dynamics, IV
Room 1007, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Roger L. Jones, DePaul University rjones@condor.depaul.edu
Randall McCutcheon, Wesleyan College cutch@claude.math.wesleyan.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Processes which are one sidedly isomorphic to a Bernoulli shift.
  Christopher E Hoffman*, University of Maryland
  (935-28-72)
- 3:30 p.m.
  $T,T^{-1}$ is not standard.
  Deborah W Heicklen*, Berkeley
  Christopher E Hoffman, University of Maryland
  (935-28-83)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Uncommon Types of Mixing.
  Terrence M Adams*, Rhode Island College
  (935-28-194)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Weakly mixing of all orders along generalized polynomials.
  Inger Johanne H\aa land*, Agder College, Norway
  (935-28-201)

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