AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:30

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 13, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, I
Room 105, Bronfman Science Center
Organizers:
Cesar Silva, Williams College csilva@williams.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Multidimensional Tiling Systems.
  Ethan Coven, Wesleyan University
  Aimee Johnson*, Swarthmore College
  Natasa Jonoska, University of South Florida
  Kathleen Madden, Drew University
  (971-37-172)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Sets that force recurrence.
  Alexander Blokh, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Adam Fieldsteel*, Wesleyan University
  (971-37-117)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Markov Partitions for Julia Sets Arising From Numerical Root Finding Algorithms.
  Kyle E Kneisl*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (971-37-173)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Dynamics of the Weierstrass Elliptic Function.
  Lorelei Koss*, Dickinson College
  Jane Hawkins, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
  (971-37-151)

Saturday October 13, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, II
Room 105, Bronfman Science Center
Organizers:
Cesar Silva, Williams College csilva@williams.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Endomorphisms isomorphic to the Bernoulli $p$-shift.
  Peter Jong, University of Toronto
  Andres del Junco*, University of Toronto
  (971-28-63)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Conjugations between $T$ and $T^2$.
  Geoffrey R Goodson*, Towson University
  (971-37-34)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Convergence and Divergence of Multiparameter Processes.
  Georgios Argiris, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
  Joseph Rosenblatt*, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
  (971-28-48)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 4:30 p.m.
  Entropy Gaps in $\mathbb Z^d$ Shifts of Finite Type.
  Anthony Quas, University of Memphis
  Ayse A Sahin*, DePaul University
  (971-37-168)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Measures of maximal relative entropy.
  Karl Petersen*, University of North Carolina
  Anthony Quas, University of Memphis
  Sujin Shin, University of Victoria
  (971-37-84)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Positive Livciz theorem for Anosov diffeomorphisms and flows and applications to maximizing measures.
  Philippe Thieullen*, Univeristy of Paris - Orsay
  (971-37-73)

Sunday October 14, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, III
Room 105, Bronfman Science Center
Organizers:
Cesar Silva, Williams College csilva@williams.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Ergodicity of monomial maps at p-adic spheres.
  Andrei Yurievich Khrennikov*, Vaxjo University
  (971-37-214)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Ergodicity results for queuing systems.
  Patricia Giurgescu*, Pace University
  (971-60-169)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Sequences of integers associated to infinite measure preserving transformations.
  Stanley Eigen*, Northeastern University
  (971-37-107)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rank one $\mathbb Z^d$ actions with singular spectral type.
  Karin B Reinhold*, University at Albany, SUNY
  Darlene Olsen, University at Albany, SUNY
  (971-37-195)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On Restricted Weak Type (1,1); The Discrete Case.
  Roger L Jones*, DePaul University
  Mustafa Akcoglu, University of Toronto
  John Baxter, University of Minneapolis
  Alexandra Bellow, Northwestern University
  (971-42-46)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Volume preserving homeomorphisms of the Hilbert cube.
  Vidhu S Prasad*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  (971-37-198)

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