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, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in Geometry and Dynamics, I
Room 1008, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Steven E Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago hurder@uic.edu
Ralf J. Spatzier, University of Michigan spatzier@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Projective factors of group actions with stationary measure.
  Robert J. Zimmer*, The University of Chicago
  (935-22-30)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Arithmetic Quotients adn Fundamental Groups of Manifolds Admitting Lattice Actions.
  David M Fisher*, University of Chicago
  (935-53-221)

Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in Geometry and Dynamics, II
Room 1008, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Steven E Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago hurder@uic.edu
Ralf J. Spatzier, University of Michigan spatzier@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  H\"older Regularity of Horocycle Foliations.
  Marlies Gerber*, Indiana University
  Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University
  (935-53-177)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Non-Smooth Dynamical Systems that Exhibit Hyperbolic Behavior.
  Marian Gidea*, Loyola University of Chicago
  (935-58-15)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Genuine partial hyperbolicity in a stably Bernoullian diffeomorphism.
  Michael Shub, IBM
  Amie Wilkinson*, Northwestern
  (935-58-229)
- 4:30 p.m.
  An open dense set of stably ergodic diffeomorphisms in a neighborhood of a non-ergodic one.
  Viorel Nitica*, University of Notre Dame
  Andrei Torok, Princeton University
  (935-58-166)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Rigidity of volume preserving partially hyperbolic actions of property (T) groups.
  Andrew T\"or\"ok*, Princeton University
  (935-58-61)
- 5:30 p.m.
  New results on rigidity of invariant measures for actions of higher rank abelian groups.
  Anatole Katok*, Pennsylvania State University
  (935-22-239)

Sunday September 13, 1998, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in Geometry and Dynamics, III
Room 1008, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Steven E Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago hurder@uic.edu
Ralf J. Spatzier, University of Michigan spatzier@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rigidity of weakly hyperbolic actions of higher real rank semisimple Lie groups and their lattices .
  Gregory A. Margulis*, Yale University
  Nantian Qian, Yale University
  (935-58-88)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some applications of the SL(2,R) action on Teichmuller space.
  Alex Eskin*, University of Chicago
  (935-22-233)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the asymptotic geometry of abelian-by-cylic groups.
  Benson Farb*, University of Chicago
  Lee Mosher, Rutgers University, Newark
  (935-20-222)

Sunday September 13, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in Geometry and Dynamics, IV
Room 1008, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Steven E Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago hurder@uic.edu
Ralf J. Spatzier, University of Michigan spatzier@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Ergodicity of skew products.
  Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
  Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University
  (935-58-137)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Fundamental groups of compact manifolds and symmetric geometry of noncompact type.
  Alberto Candel, California Institute of Technology
  Raul Quiroga*, CINVESTAV-IPN
  (935-53-175)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Finiteness and rigidity for complete Kahler manifolds.
  Mohan Ramachandran*, SUNY at Buffalo
  (935-58-215)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Cartan geometries and superrigidity.
  Renato Feres*, Washington University, St. Louis
  (935-53-161)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Cartan decomposition subgroups and compact quotients of SO(2,n)/H.
  Hee Oh*, University of Chicago
  Dave Witte, Oklahoma State University
  (935-22-231)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Asymptotics for the number of saddle connections for a quadratic differential.
  Howard Masur*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (935-22-240)

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