AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, April 17, 2006 00:33:27

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

Saturday April 8, 2006, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, I
Room 207, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Francois Ledrappier, University of Notre Dame fledrapp@nd.edu
Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University amw73024@northwestern.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Invariant subspaces of modular fibers.
  Martin J Schmoll*, University of Notre Dame
  (1016-37-74)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A pull-back formula in pluripotential theory.
  Laura DeMarco*, University of Chicago
  (1016-31-155)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Arnold diffusion with optimal time in the large gap problem.
  Marian Gidea*, Northeastern Illinois University
  Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin
  (1016-37-16)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Partial Asymptotic Stability in Nonautonomous Differential Equations.
  Oleksiy Ignatyev*, Kent State University
  (1016-34-75)

Saturday April 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, II
Room 207, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Francois Ledrappier, University of Notre Dame fledrapp@nd.edu
Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University amw73024@northwestern.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Boundary representations for negatively curved groups - irreducibility and rigidity.
  Uri Bader*, University of Chicago
  (1016-37-301)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Analysis on the boundary of a negatively curved spaces.
  Roman Muchnik*, University of Chicago
  (1016-37-324)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Finding Optimal Orbits of Chaotic Systems.
  Angela E Grant*, Northwestern University
  Brian R Hunt, University of Maryland, College Park
  (1016-37-309)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Subshifts of Ledrappier's 3-dot dynamical system.
  Bruce P. Kitchens*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
  (1016-37-104)

Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, III
Room 207, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Francois Ledrappier, University of Notre Dame fledrapp@nd.edu
Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University amw73024@northwestern.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Convergence rates of the transfer operators for sigma finite measures.
  Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California
  Huyi Hu*, Michigan State University
  (1016-37-228)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Groups acting by diffeomorphisms close to the identity.
  Anne E McCarthy*, Northwestern University
  (1016-37-314)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A thermodynamic formalism for noncontinuous potentials.
  Anna Mummert*, Penn State
  (1016-37-11)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Accessibility is generic for partially hyperbolic maps with 1-dimensional center distribution.
  Anna Talitskaya*, Northwestern University
  Keith Burns, Northwestern University
  Hertz Jana, Universidad de la Republica,Uruguay
  Hertz Federico, Universidad de la Republica
  Raul Ures, Universidad de la Republica
  (1016-37-290)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Topological Pressure via Saddle Points.
  C. P. Wolf*, Wichita State University
  K. Gelfert, Max-Planck Institute Dresden
  (1016-37-15)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Compact Lorentz manifolds with local symmetry.
  Karin H. Melnick*, University of Chicago
  (1016-37-40)

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