AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

2003 Spring Central Section Meeting
Bloomington, IN, April 4-6, 2003
Meeting #985

• 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)