AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:43

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

Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, I
Room 119, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell vidhu_prasad@uml.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rank one mixing actions of discrete Abelian groups.
  Adam Fieldsteel, Wesleyan University
  Andr\'es del Junco*, University of Toronto
  (979-28-177)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Lower Bounds for Upcrossings of Ergodic Averages.
  Sebastian E Ferrando*, Ryerson University
  Pedro Catuogno, Mar del Plata National University
  Alfredo Gonzalez, Mar del Plata National University
  (979-28-122)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Local Rigidity of Group Actions.
  David M Fisher*, Lehman College, CUNY
  G A Margulis, Yale University
  (979-37-219)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Growth of typical orbits on homogeneous spaces.
  Dmitry Y Kleinbock*, Brandeis University
  (979-37-84)

Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, II
Room 119, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell vidhu_prasad@uml.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Bounded orbit injections and flow equivalence for minimal $Z^d$-actions.
  Nicholas S Ormes*, University of Denver
  Kathleen Madden, Drew University
  (979-37-120)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The complexity of self affine tiling dynamical systems.
  E. Arthur Robinson, Jr.*, The George Washington University
  (979-37-60)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The square of a map, symbolic dynamics, and the Conley index.
  Jim Wiseman*, Swarthmore College
  (979-37-173)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Bounded homeomorphisms of the open annulus.
  David S. Richeson*, Dickinson College
  (979-58-50)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Non-conventional ergodic averages and nilmanifolds.
  Bryna Kra*, Pennsylvania State University
  Bernard Host, University of Marne La Vallee
  (979-37-17)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, III
Room 119, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell vidhu_prasad@uml.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Dynamics of McMullen's Root-Finding Algorithm for cubic polynomials.
  Jane M. Hawkins*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (979-37-41)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Parameter space of the Weierstrass elliptic function.
  Jane Hawkins, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Lorelei Koss*, Dickinson College
  (979-37-189)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Dynamics of Quadratic One-Dimensional Continuous Cellular Automata.
  Randall E Rausch*, University of Texas at Dallas
  (979-37-181)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Asymptotic Behaviour of Measures with Long Range Correlations under the Action of Cellular Automata.
  Reem Yassawi*, Trent University
  Marcus Pivato, Trent University
  (979-37-204)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Dimension of hyperbolic sets computed from stable and unstable slices.
  Boris Hasselblatt*, Tufts University
  Joerg Schmeling, Lunds Universitet
  (979-37-48)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, IV
Room 119, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell vidhu_prasad@uml.edu
- 2:00 a.m.
  Properties of Topological Entropy which Characterize it.
  Ethan M. Coven*, Wesleyan University
  (979-37-18)
- 2:30 a.m.
  Entropy Points, Expansiveness and Symbolic Dynamics.
  Doris Fiebig, Goettingen, Germany
  Ulf Rainer Fiebig, Goettingen, Germany
  Zbigniew H Nitecki*, Tufts University
  (979-37-14)
- 3:00 a.m.
  On weak mixing and multiple recurrence for infinite measure-preserving transformations.
  Cesar E Silva*, Williams College
  (979-37-222)
- 3:30 a.m.
  Distributions of Special One-dependent Measures.
  Jorge E Navarro*, University of Texas-Brownsville
  (979-37-149)
- 4:00 a.m.
  Complementing subsets of the integers and a conjecture of Yuji Ito.
  Stanley J. Eigen*, Northeastern University
  (979-37-206)

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