AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:41

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday April 3, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Smooth Ergodic Theory and Related Topics, I
Room 116, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California nhaydn@postal.usc.edu
Huyi Hu, Michigan State University hu@math.psu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Liv\v{s}ic Regularity for Markov Towers.
  Henk Bruin, Surrey University
  Mark Holland, Surrey University
  Matthew Nicol*, University of Houston
  (996-37-106)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Extending Weak Convergence Results to Infinite Time.
  Cymra Haskell*, University of Southern California
  Matthew Nicol, University of Houston
  Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College
  (996-37-155)
- 9:00 a.m.
  An infinite time functional central limit theorem for compact group extensions of hyperbolic systems.
  Cymra Haskell, University of Southern California
  Matthew Nicol, University of Houston
  Ami E. Radunskaya*, Pomona College
  (996-37-154)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Statistical Limit Theorems for Suspension Flows.
  Ian Melbourne, University of Surrey, UK
  Andrew Torok*, University of Houston
  (996-37-152)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Stability of rapid mixing for hyperbolic flows.
  M J Field*, University of Houston
  I Melbourne, University of Surrey
  A Torok, University of Houston
  (996-37-75)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A fascinating dynamics of a piecewise attractor with four atoms.
  Arek Goetz*, San Francisco State University
  (996-37-77)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Smooth Ergodic Theory and Related Topics, II
Room 116, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California nhaydn@postal.usc.edu
Huyi Hu, Michigan State University hu@math.psu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Foliations: harmonic measures, von Neumann algebras and resilient leaves.
  Alberto Candel*, CSUN
  (996-37-199)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Counterexamples that show that n-dimensional hyperbolic space does not retain rigidity in the Finsler category.
  Florence Newberger*, California State University, Long Beach
  (996-37-149)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Partially hyperbolic dynamical systems and subriemannian geometry.
  Slobodan N Simi\'c*, University of California, Berkeley
  (996-37-140)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Rigidity of the measurable structure for algebraic actions of higher rank abelian groups.
  Boris Kalinin*, University of South Alabama
  Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan
  (996-37-127)
- 5:00 p.m.
  ``On Newhouse phenomenon (of infinitely many coexisting sinks)'' (joint w A. Gorodetsky).
  Vadim Y Kaloshin*, Caltech
  (996-37-178)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Minimizing methods for the N-body problem without equal-mass constraint.
  Kuo-Chang Chen*, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
  (996-37-185)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Smooth Ergodic Theory and Related Topics, III
Room 116, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California nhaydn@postal.usc.edu
Huyi Hu, Michigan State University hu@math.psu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Asymptotic Behavior near Rays of Dynamic Equilibria in Homogenous Systems.
  Marek R Rychlik*, University of Arizona
  Weiye Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  (996-91-125)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Degenerate Homoclinic Intersections in ${\mathbb{R}}^n$.
  Victoria Rayskin*, UCLA
  (996-37-100)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Strange attractors in periodically kicked Chua's circuit.
  Qiudong Wang*, University of Arizona
  (996-37-141)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Return times of polynomials are meta-Fibonacci numbers.
  Nathaniel D Emerson*, CSU Channel Islands
  (996-37-133)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Random sources and sinks for stochastic dynamical systems.
  Peter H Baxendale*, University of Southern California
  (996-37-112)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Two Point Boundary Value Problems in Dynamical Systems.
  J JP Veerman*, Portland State University
  J A Bernhard, University of Puget Sound
  (996-37-105)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Smooth Ergodic Theory and Related Topics, IV
Room 116, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California nhaydn@postal.usc.edu
Huyi Hu, Michigan State University hu@math.psu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the Universality of Bosco's Rule.
  Kellie Michele Evans*, California State University, Northridge
  (996-37-165)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Complex dynamics in learning.
  Thomas J. Taylor*, Arizona State University
  (996-37-205)

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