AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:34

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday October 24, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Measurable, Complex, and Symbolic Dynamics, I
Room 206, Dey Hall
Organizers:
Jane M. Hawkins, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill jmh@math.unc.edu
Karl E. Petersen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill petersen@email.unc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Symmetries of shifts of finite type.
  Daniel S Silver, University of South Alabama
  Susan G Williams*, University of South Alabama
  (991-37-281)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Spectral analysis of substitution sequences in $\mathbb Z^d$.
  Natalie Priebe Frank*, Vassar College
  (991-28-289)
- 3:30 p.m.
  An extension of the Moore and Myhill's Garden-of-Eden Theorem to $Z^2$-shifts of finite type.
  T. Hamachi*, Kyushu University
  (991-37-267)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Symbolic dynamics of the restricted collinear 3-body problem.
  Samuel R Kaplan*, UNC Asheville
  Ernesto A Lacomba, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa
  Jaume Llibre, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
  (991-70-120)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Rigidity of algebraic $\mathbb{Z}^d$ shift dynamical systems.
  Bruce P Kitchens*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (991-37-198)

Saturday October 25, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Measurable, Complex, and Symbolic Dynamics, II
Room 206, Dey Hall
Organizers:
Jane M. Hawkins, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill jmh@math.unc.edu
Karl E. Petersen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill petersen@email.unc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Rates of convergence and divergence.
  Joseph Rosenblatt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (991-28-60)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Wiener-Wintner property for the helical transform.
  James T Campbell*, University of Memphis
  Michael Lacey, Ga. Institute of Technology
  (991-37-240)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Polynomial Szemeredi theorem for countable modules over integral domains and finite fields.
  Randall G McCutcheon*, University of Memphis
  Vitaly Bergelson, Ohio State University
  Alexander Leibman, Ohio State University
  (991-28-236)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On partitions with independent iterates.
  Boris Begun, Univ. of Toronto
  Andres del Junco*, Univ. of Toronto
  (991-28-165)

Saturday October 25, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Measurable, Complex, and Symbolic Dynamics, III
Room 206, Dey Hall
Organizers:
Jane M. Hawkins, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill jmh@math.unc.edu
Karl E. Petersen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill petersen@email.unc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Connectivity Properties of Julia sets of Weierstrass Elliptic Functions.
  Lorelei Koss*, Dickinson College
  Jane Hawkins, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (991-37-188)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Indecomposable Continua and the Julia Sets of Rational Maps.
  John C Mayer*, UAB
  (991-30-06)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Necessary conditions for the existence of wandering vertices for cubic polynomials.
  Alexander Blokh*, UAB, Birmingham, AL
  (991-37-70)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The simplest branched surface for a foliation (preliminary report).
  Sandi L Shields*, College of Charleston
  (991-57-153)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Mixing on a Class of Rank One Transformations.
  Darren Creutz, New York, New York
  Cesar E. Silva*, Williams College
  (991-37-287)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Almost everywhere convergence of modulated one-sided Hilbert transform.
  Ciprian Demeter*, University of Illinois
  (991-37-261)

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