AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:13

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, I
Room 148, Educational Building
Organizers:
Nikolai I. Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham chernov@math.uab.edu
Nandor Simanyi, University of Alabama at Birmingham simanyi@math.uab.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Topological entropy of convex billiards with small obstacles.
  Roberto Markarian*, IMERL, Universidad de la Rep\`ublica, Uruguay
  (960-58-90)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Measurements of decay of correlations in large particle systems.
  Marek R Rychlik*, University of Arizona
  (960-70-233)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Search light in billiard tables.
  Gregory Galperin*, Eastern Illinois University
  (960-37-157)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Decay of correlations for some almost Anosov systems.
  Huyi Hu*, The University of Southern California
  (960-37-210)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Nonholonomic constraints, normal form and high frequency oscillations.
  Mark Levi*, Penn State University
  Warren Weckesser, University of Michigan
  (960-37-134)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Polyhedral billiards and a caricature on the Boltzmann-Sinai gas.
  Eugene Gutkin*, Santa Monica, California
  (960-37-43)

Saturday November 11, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, II
Room 148, Educational Building
Organizers:
Nikolai I. Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham chernov@math.uab.edu
Nandor Simanyi, University of Alabama at Birmingham simanyi@math.uab.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Singularities in Multi-dimensional (Semi-)Dispersing Billiards.
  Peter Balint*, Renyi Institute of the H.A.S.
  Nikolai Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Domokos Szasz, Technical University of Budapest
  Peter I Toth, Technical University of Budapest
  (960-37-127)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The fundamental theorem for algebraic semi-dispersing billiards.
  Domokos Szasz*, Technical University of Budapest
  Nikolai Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Peter I. Toth, Technical University of Budapest
  Peter Balint, Renyi Institute of the H.A.S.
  (960-37-144)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Billiards in truncated ellipses.
  Gianluigi Del Magno*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (960-37-172)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Subexponential estimate of local proliferation of singularities in 2D billiards.
  Leonid A Bunimovich*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (960-37-100)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Natural Asymptotic Measures on the Unstable, Stable and Invariant Manifolds of Open Billiard Systems in the Plane.
  Peter A Richardson*, Baylor College Of Medicine / VHA
  (960-37-212)

Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, III
Room 148, Educational Building
Organizers:
Nikolai I. Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham chernov@math.uab.edu
Nandor Simanyi, University of Alabama at Birmingham simanyi@math.uab.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Rigidity of Connected limit sets of conformal iterated function systems.
  R. Daniel Mauldin*, University of North Texas
  Mariusz Urbanski, University of North Texas
  (960-37-103)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the Ergodicity of Geodesic Flow.
  Robert M Kauffman*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (960-37-195)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Orbits of unbounded energy in geodesic flows and time dependent potential and in other mechanical systems.
  Amadeu Delshams, Univ Polit. Catalunya
  Rafael de la Llave*, Univ of Texas, Austin
  Tere Seara, Univ.Polit. Catalunya
  (960-37-58)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Embedded Surfaces with Anosov Geodesic Flow.
  Victor J Donnay*, Bryn Mawr College
  Charles Pugh, University of California at Berkeley
  (960-37-160)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Reflective properties of orientation reversing homeomorphisms of the plane.
  Krystyna M Kuperberg*, Auburn University
  (960-58-114)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Chromos and Covering Residue Classes.
  Pantelimon Stanica*, Auburn University Montgomery
  (960-05-12)

Sunday November 12, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, IV
Room 148, Educational Building
Organizers:
Nikolai I. Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham chernov@math.uab.edu
Nandor Simanyi, University of Alabama at Birmingham simanyi@math.uab.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Dynamical Systems and Statistical Mechanics.
  E. G. D. Cohen*, The Rockefeller University
  (960-82-50)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Kinetic Theory Methods for Lyapunov Exponents and KS Entropies.
  Robert J Dorfman*, The University of Maryland at College Park
  (960-37-161)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Infinite billiards and statistical mechanics.
  Carl P Dettmann*, University of Bristol
  (960-82-147)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Billiard gas dynamics in regions with moving boundaries.
  Oliver R Knill*, Harvard University
  (960-37-159)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Billiards with a non-compact cusp.
  Marco Lenci*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (960-37-208)

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