AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:31

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

Saturday November 10, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems of Billiard Type
Room 240, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
Organizers:
Marek Rychlik, University of Arizona rychlik@u.arizona.edu
Andrew Torok, University of Houston torok@math.uh.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Ergodicity of Typical Hard Sphere Systems in 2D: Geometric Aspects.
  Nandor Simanyi*, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (972-37-104)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Periodic orbit theory analysis of simple variants of familiar two dimensional billiard systems.
  Richard W Robinett*, Penn State University
  (972-37-117)
- 10:20 a.m.
  The measure of periodic points of billiards - a computational algebraic geometry approach.
  Marek R Rychlik*, University of Arizona
  (972-70-194)

Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems of Billiard Type
Room 240, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
Organizers:
Marek Rychlik, University of Arizona rychlik@u.arizona.edu
Andrew Torok, University of Houston torok@math.uh.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Central Limit Theorem for al large class of mixing maps.
  Nicolai T Haydn*, University of Southern California
  (972-37-151)
- 3:35 p.m.
  Absolutely Continuous Invariant Measures for Non-Uniformly Expanding Maps.
  Huyi Hu*, University of Southern California
  Sandro Vaienti, Centre de Physique Th\'eorique, CNRS
  (972-37-183)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Rotations by pi/7 and examples of rational piecewise rotations with an unbounded return time to one of the atoms.
  Arek Goetz*, San Francisco State University
  (972-37-105)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Chaos in Accelerated Billiards.
  Bruce N Miller*, Texas Christian University
  (972-37-173)
- 5:20 p.m.
  Semi-dispersing billiards with a non-compact cusp.
  Marco Lenci*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (972-37-82)
- 5:55 p.m.
  A convex generalized 3D stadium billiard.
  Gianluigi Del Magno*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (972-37-186)

Sunday November 11, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems of Billiard Type
Room 240, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
Organizers:
Marek Rychlik, University of Arizona rychlik@u.arizona.edu
Andrew Torok, University of Houston torok@math.uh.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Periodic billiard orbits in non-euclidean polygons.
  Eugene Gutkin*, Santa Monica, CA
  (972-37-55)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Mushrooms and Other Billiards With Divided Phase Space.
  Leonid A Bunimovich*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (972-37-64)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Statistics and ergodicity on a class of partially hyperbolic symmetric attractors.
  Michael Field*, University of Houston
  (972-58-131)

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