AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, October 30, 2006 00:36:37

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

Saturday October 21, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, I
Room 519, Swift Hall
Organizers:
Nikos Frantzikinakis, Pennsylvania State University nikos@math.psu.edu
Bryna R. Kra, Northwestern University kra@math.northwestern.edu
Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis mw@csi.hu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Divergent Square Averages.
  R. Daniel Mauldin*, Mathematics Department, University of North Texas
  Zoltan Buczolich, Analysis Dept., Eotvos Lorand Univ. Budapest
  (1020-37-252)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Expansive Cellular Automata on Subshift Spaces of Dimension D.
  Emily Gamber*, Santa Fe Institute
  (1020-37-200)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Partitions with independent iterates in random dynamical systems.
  Andres del Junco*, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Toronto
  Boris Begun, Hebrew University
  (1020-28-56)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Idempotence and polynomiality.
  Randall McCutcheon*, Memphis
  (1020-11-244)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the identification of points by Borel semiflows.
  David M McClendon*, Northwestern University
  (1020-37-68)
- 11:00 a.m.
  $\mathbb Z^d$ actions, rank one and F\o lner sets.
  E. Arthur Robinson, Jr., George Washington University
  Ayse A Sahin*, DePaul University
  (1020-37-69)

Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, II
Room 519, Swift Hall
Organizers:
Nikos Frantzikinakis, Pennsylvania State University nikos@math.psu.edu
Bryna R. Kra, Northwestern University kra@math.northwestern.edu
Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis mw@csi.hu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Breaking the duality in the "Return times" theorem.
  Ciprian Demeter*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (1020-37-73)
- 3:30 p.m.
  WM sets - definitions, Ramsey properties and open problems.
  Alexander Fish*, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, currently Ohio State University
  (1020-37-105)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Projectional Entropy in Higher Dimensional Shifts of Finite Type.
  Aimee S. A. Johnson*, Swarthmore College
  Kathleen Madden, Drew University
  Steve Kass, Drew University
  (1020-37-129)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Convergence of Polynomial Ergodic Averages of Several Variables for Some Commuting Transformations.
  Michael C R Johnson*, Northwestern University
  (1020-37-184)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On the uniqueness of measures of full Hausdorff dimension for some compact invariant sets.
  Yuki Yayama*, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (1020-37-175)

Sunday October 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, III
Room 519, Swift Hall
Organizers:
Nikos Frantzikinakis, Pennsylvania State University nikos@math.psu.edu
Bryna R. Kra, Northwestern University kra@math.northwestern.edu
Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis mw@csi.hu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Adic transformations and random walks, I.
  Sarah Bailey Frick*, The Ohio State University
  Karl Petersen, University of North Carolina
  (1020-37-130)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Adic transformations and random walks, II.
  Sarah Bailey, Ohio State University
  Karl Petersen*, University of North Carolina
  (1020-37-106)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Bounds for Square Functions of Differences in Ergodic Theory.
  Joseph Rosenblatt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Mary Liu, Eastern Kentucky University
  (1020-28-54)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On an Argument of Shkredov on Two-Dimensional Corners in a Finite Field Setting.
  Michael T Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology
  William C McClain*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1020-05-202)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Perturbations of Multidimensional Shifts of Finite Type.
  Ronnie Pavlov*, The Ohio State University
  (1020-37-205)

Sunday October 22, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, IV
Room 519, Swift Hall
Organizers:
Nikos Frantzikinakis, Pennsylvania State University nikos@math.psu.edu
Bryna R. Kra, Northwestern University kra@math.northwestern.edu
Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis mw@csi.hu
- 2:00 p.m.
  A characterization of Levitan almost periodicity.
  Alica Miller*, University of Louisville
  (1020-37-227)
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Distribution of Periodic Torus Orbits on Homogeneous Spaces.
  Manfred L Einsiedler*, Ohio State University
  (1020-37-60)

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