AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

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

Saturday October 21, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Symbolic Dynamical Systems, I
Room 429, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Arek Goetz, San Francisco State University goetz@sfsu.edu
Luca Zamboni, University of North Texas luca@unt.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Generic behaviour of special Euclidean group extensions $SE(n)$ of uniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems.
  Matthew Nicol*, University of Surrey, England
  (958-58-269)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Some extensions of Lagrange Theorem on the periodicity of the continued fraction extensions of quadratic irrationals.
  Michael Boshernitzan*, Rice University
  (958-37-237)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dynamics of expansive group actions on the circle.
  Steven Hurder*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (958-58-235)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On constructing partially hyperbolic systems with non absolutely continuous central foliations.
  Keith H Burns*, Northwestern University
  (958-37-166)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Anatole Katok,TBA

Saturday October 21, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Symbolic Dynamical Systems, II
Room 429, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Arek Goetz, San Francisco State University goetz@sfsu.edu
Luca Zamboni, University of North Texas luca@unt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Symbolic dynamics and integer tilings.
  Ethan Coven, Wesleyan University
  William Geller*, Indiana U. - Purdue U. Indpls.
  Sylvia Silberger, Hofstra University
  William Thurston, U.C. Davis
  (958-37-123)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The symbolic dynamics of tilings of the multidimensional integers I.
  Ethan M Coven*, Wesleyan University
  Aimee Johnson, Swarthmore College
  Natasha Jonoska, University of South Florida
  Kathleen Madden, Drew University
  (958-37-120)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The symbolic dynamics of tilings of the multidimensional integers II.
  Ethan M Coven, Wesleyan University
  Aimee Johnson, Swarthmore College
  Natasha Jonoska*, University of South Florida
  Kathleen Madden, Drew University
  (958-37-121)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Invariants for substitution dynamical systems.
  Charles Radin*, University of Texas at Austin
  (958-37-115)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Tiling spaces are Cantor set fiber bundles.
  Robert F Williams*, University of Texas, Austin
  (958-37-85)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Automorphisms of shifts with UFO.
  William Geller, IUPUI
  Michal Misiurewicz*, IUPUI
  (958-37-119)

Sunday October 22, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Symbolic Dynamical Systems, III
Room 429, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Arek Goetz, San Francisco State University goetz@sfsu.edu
Luca Zamboni, University of North Texas luca@unt.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Periodic trajectories of multi-dimensional Birkhoff billiards.
  Serge Tabachnikov*, Penn State University
  Michael Farber, Tel Aviv University
  (958-57-105)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Counting Problems on Billiards.
  Alex Eskin, University of Chicago
  Howard Masur*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (958-37-254)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Counting periodic orbits and closed geodesics.
  Eugene Gutkin*, Santa Monica, California
  (958-37-99)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Arithmetic Failure of Ergodicity.
  Yitwah Cheung*, Northwestern University
  (958-37-93)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dynamics on the orbit space and stable ergodicity for equivariant diffeomorphiisms.
  Michael J Field*, University of Houston
  (958-37-87)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Billiards on Weyl manifolds.
  Maciej P Wojtkowski*, University of Arizona
  (958-37-287)

Sunday October 22, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Symbolic Dynamical Systems, IV
Room 429, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Arek Goetz, San Francisco State University goetz@sfsu.edu
Luca Zamboni, University of North Texas luca@unt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Shifts of finite type and flow equivalence.
  Mike Boyle*, University of Maryland
  Danrun Huang, St. Cloud State University
  (958-37-104)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Small polynomial matrix presentations of shifts of finite type.
  Douglas Lind*, University of Washington
  (958-37-180)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Symbolic dynamics and topological quantum feld theory.
  Jack Wagoner*, UC Berkeley
  (958-81-132)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Initial powers of Sturmian words.
  Charles G Holton*, UC Berkeley
  Luca Q Zamboni, University of North Texas
  (958-05-289)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The digital filter overflow oscillation problem.
  Peter Ashwin*, University of Exeter
  (958-37-74)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Forbidden Words in Symbolic Dynamics.
  Marie-Pierre Beal, Marne-La Vallee, France
  Filippo Mignosi*, Universita` di Palermo, Italy
  Antonio Restivo, Universita` di Palermo, Italy
  Marinella Sciortino, Universita` di Palermo, Italy
  (958-37-282)

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