AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:00

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Saturday September 25, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic and Number Theory, I
Room 234, Orson Spencer Hall
Organizers:
Robert Burton, Oregon State University bob@orst.edu
Thomas Schmidt, Oregon State University toms@math.orst.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Geodesics on Riemann Surfaces with Ramification Points of Order Greater than 2.
  Mark Sheingorn*, CUNY - Baruch
  (946-30-42)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Veech groups and polygonal coverings.
  Pascal Hubert, Institut de Math\'ematiques de Luminy
  Thomas A Schmidt*, Oregon State University
  (946-30-115)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Geodesic flow on nonpositively curved length spaces.
  Christopher M Judge*, Indiana University
  (946-37-77)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Periodic and singular geodesics on flat surfaces, with applications to billiards.
  Eugene Gutkin*, University of Southern California
  (946-37-97)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A tessellation associated to a quadratic differential.
  William A Veech*, Rice University
  (946-37-61)

Saturday September 25, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic and Number Theory, II
Room 234, Orson Spencer Hall
Organizers:
Robert Burton, Oregon State University bob@orst.edu
Thomas Schmidt, Oregon State University toms@math.orst.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The mother of all continued fractions.
  Karma Dajani*, Universiteit Utrecht
  Cor Kraaikamp, TUDelft
  (946-28-120)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Mixing Measures Achieve Nearly Maximal Entropy in $\mathbb Z^d$ Shifts of Finite Type with Uniform Filling.
  E. Arthur Robinson, Jr., George Washington University
  Ayse A Sahin*, North Dakota State University
  (946-37-91)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Subshifts of a higher-dimensional shift of finite type.
  Anthony N Quas*, University of Memphis
  Paul B Trow, University of Memphis
  (946-58-98)
- 4:30 p.m.
  $L^q$ densities and $q$-dimensions.
  Mariusz Urbanski*, University of North Texas
  (946-37-48)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On the convergence of series of translates of measurable functions.
  Zoltan Buczolich, Eotvos Lorand University
  Jean-Pierre Kahane, Universit\'e de Paris-Sud
  R. Daniel Mauldin*, University of North Texas
  (946-28-128)

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