AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:30

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday April 4, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, I
Room 006, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Roger L. Jones, DePaul University rjones@condor.depaul.edu
Ayse A. Sahin, DePaul University asahin@condor.depaul.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Predictability in Ergodic Theory.
  Joseph Rosenblatt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (985-28-135)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Besicovitch weights and the necessity of the duality restriction for a.e. convergence of weighted ergodic averages.
  Ciprian Demeter*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
  (985-37-205)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Some results and questions on Besicovitch and Return Times weights in the pointwise ergodic theorem.
  James H Olsen*, North Dakota State University
  (985-28-138)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Optimal weights for moving averages and differentiation operators.
  Parthena Avramidou*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (985-37-286)

Saturday April 5, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, II
Room 006, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Roger L. Jones, DePaul University rjones@condor.depaul.edu
Ayse A. Sahin, DePaul University asahin@condor.depaul.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Generalized Polynomials and Mild Mixing.
  Randall G McCutcheon*, University of Memphis
  (985-28-307)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The helical transform revisited.
  James T Campbell*, University of Memphis
  (985-37-291)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Genericity in powers of the Morse system.
  Emmanuel Lesigne, Universit\'e de Tours
  Anthony Quas*, University of Memphis
  M\'at\'e Wierdl, University of Memphis
  (985-37-306)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Amenable group actions and partitions with independent iterates.
  Andres del Junco*, University of Toronto
  Boris Begun, University of Toronto
  (985-28-273)

Saturday April 5, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, III
Room 006, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Roger L. Jones, DePaul University rjones@condor.depaul.edu
Ayse A. Sahin, DePaul University asahin@condor.depaul.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Lyapunov theorem on vector measures and Alpern multitower theorem for minimal Cantor homeomorphisms.
  Isaac Kornfeld*, North Dakota State University
  (985-37-120)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A classification of regularly almost periodic compact minimal flows up to isomorphism and up to orbit-equivalence.
  Alica Miller*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Joseph Rosenblatt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (985-37-326)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Bounded orbit equivalence and flow equivalence for minimal ${\mathbb Z}^2$-actions.
  Nicholas S Ormes*, University of Denver
  Samuel J Lightwood, George Washington University
  (985-37-275)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Entropy and isomorphism of random walks on random sceneries.
  Karen T. Ball*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (985-37-248)

Sunday April 6, 2003, 9:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, IV
Room 006, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Roger L. Jones, DePaul University rjones@condor.depaul.edu
Ayse A. Sahin, DePaul University asahin@condor.depaul.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Full bubble growth rate and the embedding of finite to one extensions of non-periodic $Z^2$ subshifts into the domino tiling shift.
  Sam Lightwood*, The George Washington University
  Ayse Sahin, DePaul University
  (985-37-322)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Ordered full shifts.
  William Geller*, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis
  Michal Misiurewicz, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis
  (985-37-317)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Asymptotic Randomization of Multidimensional Finite-type Subshifts by Linear Cellular Automata.
  Marcus Pivato*, Trent University
  Reem Yassawi, Trent University
  (985-37-101)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Ergodic Averages with Generalized Weights.
  Dogan Comez*, North Dakota State University
  Semyon N Litvinov, Penn State University-Hazleton
  (985-37-300)
- 11:30 a.m.
  A new look at strong sweeping out for lacunary sequences.
  Roger L Jones*, DePaul University
  (985-37-222)

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