AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:12

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

Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, I
Room 1105, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Andres del Junco, University of Toronto deljunco@math.toronto.edu
Blair Madore, SUNY, Potsdam madorebf@potsdam.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dynamics of measure preserving homeomorphisms.
  Vidhu S Prasad*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  (957-37-34)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The $T,T^{-1}$--process, finitary codings and weak Bernoulli.
  Jeffrey E Steif*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (957-37-100)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:30 a.m.
  Centralizers and Factors of Products of Nonsingular Chacon Transformations.
  Andres del Junco, University of Toronto
  Cesar E. Silva*, Williams College
  (957-37-301)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Some questions on squarefunctions and subsequence theorems.
  Mate Wierdl*, University of Memphis
  (957-37-209)

Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, II
Room 1105, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Andres del Junco, University of Toronto deljunco@math.toronto.edu
Blair Madore, SUNY, Potsdam madorebf@potsdam.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Ergodicity and exactness of real and complex analytic maps of manifolds.
  Jane M Hawkins*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (957-37-91)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some open problems and conjectures.
  Vitaly Bergelson*, Ohio State University
  (957-37-296)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 4:30 p.m.
  Oscillation and variation inequalities for singular integrals.
  James Campbell, University of Memphis
  Roger L Jones, De Paul University
  Karin Reinhold*, University at Albany, SUNY
  Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis
  (957-42-260)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Exact Rate of Approximation in Ulam's Method.
  Chris J Bose*, University of Victoria
  Rua D Murray, University of Waikato
  (957-37-65)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, III
Room 1105, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Andres del Junco, University of Toronto deljunco@math.toronto.edu
Blair Madore, SUNY, Potsdam madorebf@potsdam.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Equipartition of interval partitions and an application to number theory.
  Karma Dajani, Utrecht University
  Adam Fieldsteel*, Wesleyan University
  (957-28-202)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Positive operators in $L^1$, cocycles, and the mean ergodic theorem.
  Isaac Kornfeld*, North Dakota State University
  (957-37-122)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion
- 11:00 a.m.
  $T,T^{-1}$-endomorphisms entropy and Kakutani equivalence.
  Deborah Heicklen, UC Berkeley
  Christopher Hoffman, U. of Washington
  Daniel Rudolph*, U. of Maryland
  (957-37-283)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, IV
Room 1105, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Andres del Junco, University of Toronto deljunco@math.toronto.edu
Blair Madore, SUNY, Potsdam madorebf@potsdam.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Limit Measures for Affine Cellular Automata.
  Reem A Yassawi*, Trent University
  Marcus Pivato, University of Toronto
  (957-28-291)
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the general convergence of Halley's Method and other superquadratic root-finding algorithms.
  Kyle E Kneisl*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (957-37-53)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Asymptotics for the Jumps of Ergodic Averages.
  Pedro J Catuogno, Mar del Plata National University. Mar del Plata, Argentina.
  Sebastian E Ferrando*, Ryerson Polytechnic University. Toronto, Canada.
  (957-37-50)

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