AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 16, 2005 01:09:10

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 8, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Measurable, Symbolic, and Tiling Dynamical Systems, I
Room 106, Hegeman Hall
Organizers:
Natalie Priebe Frank, Vassar College nafrank@vassar.edu
Samuel J. Lightwood, Western Connecticut State University lightwoods@wcsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the spectrum of model sets.
  E. Arthur Robinson*, George Washington University
  (1009-37-224)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Prevalence of Odometers in Cellular Automata.
  Ethan M. Coven*, Wesleyan University
  Marcus Pivato, Trent University
  Reem Yassawi, Trent University
  (1009-37-59)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Crystallographic Defects in Cellular Automata.
  Marcus Pivato*, Department of Mathematics, Trent University
  (1009-37-105)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Jointly periodic points of celllar automata.
  Mike Boyle*, University of Maryland
  Bryant Lee, University of Maryland
  (1009-37-123)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Relative $\bar{d}-$ pressure and the variational principle.
  Russell Coe, Central Connecticut State University
  Adam Fieldsteel*, Wesleyan, University
  (1009-37-180)

Saturday October 8, 2005, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Measurable, Symbolic, and Tiling Dynamical Systems, II
Room 106, Hegeman Hall
Organizers:
Natalie Priebe Frank, Vassar College nafrank@vassar.edu
Samuel J. Lightwood, Western Connecticut State University lightwoods@wcsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A dynamical proof of the topological orbit equivalence theorem in a finitary method.
  Toshihiro Hamachi*, Kyushu University
  Michael Keane, Wesleyan University
  Hisatoshi Yuasa, Kyushu University
  (1009-37-30)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A note on rank one amenable group actions.
  Michael S Keane*, Wesleyan University
  Marcus Pivato, Trent University
  Reem Yassawi, Trent University
  (1009-37-141)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On measure-preserving $C^1$ transformations of compact-open subsets of non-archimedean local fields.
  J. Kingsbery, Williams College
  A. Levin, Harvard University
  A. Preygel, Harvard University
  C. E. Silva*, Williams College
  (1009-37-209)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Dimension Groups for a family of non-simple Adic Transformantions.
  Sarah E Bailey*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (1009-37-197)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Dynamics of Some Nonstationary Adic Systems.
  Karl Petersen*, University of North Carolina
  (1009-37-88)

Sunday October 9, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Measurable, Symbolic, and Tiling Dynamical Systems, III
Room 106, Hegeman Hall
Organizers:
Natalie Priebe Frank, Vassar College nafrank@vassar.edu
Samuel J. Lightwood, Western Connecticut State University lightwoods@wcsu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Tiling spaces associatiated to pseudo-Anosov surface diffeomorphisms.
  Marcy Barge, Montana State University
  Brian F Martensen*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  (1009-37-176)
- 9:30 a.m.
  When Thue-Morse meets Koch.
  Judy A Holdener*, Kenyon College
  Jun Ma, Kenyon College
  (1009-37-26)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Good Measures on Cantor Space.
  Ethan Akin*, City College of New York
  (1009-28-165)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Alpern Multi-Tower Theorem in $Z^d$ and a transference argument.
  Ayse A Sahin*, DePaul University
  (1009-37-110)

Sunday October 9, 2005, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Measurable, Symbolic, and Tiling Dynamical Systems, IV
Room 106, Hegeman Hall
Organizers:
Natalie Priebe Frank, Vassar College nafrank@vassar.edu
Samuel J. Lightwood, Western Connecticut State University lightwoods@wcsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Multitowers, Conjugacy and Coding.
  V. S. Prasad*, University of Massachusetts Lowell,
  S Alpern, London School of Economics
  (1009-37-12)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Zero-entropy vertex maps for graphs.
  Chris Bernhardt*, Fairfield University
  (1009-37-90)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Good almost conjugacy for $G$-shifts of finite type.
  Andrew Dykstra*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (1009-37-188)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Subsystem Entropy for $\mathbb Z^d$ Sofic Systems.
  Angela Desai*, University of Maryland
  (1009-37-213)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Factoring higher-dimensional shifts of finite type onto the full shift.
  Kathleen Madden*, Drew University
  Aimee Johnson, Swarthmore College
  (1009-37-71)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Partition itineraries and a 2-dimensional version of Loch's theorem.
  Aimee S.A. Johnson*, Swarthmore College
  K. Dajani, University of Utrecht
  M. de Vries, Free University of Amsterdam
  (1009-37-173)

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