AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Thursday, November 2, 2006 00:39:18

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

Saturday October 28, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computability Theory in Honor of Manuel Lerman's Retirement, I
Room 211, Business School
Organizers:
Joseph S. Miller, University of Connecticut, Storrs josephmiller@math.uconn.edu
David Reed Solomon, University of Connecticut, Storrs solomon@math.uconn.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Solution to a problem on computable embeddings.
  J. Chisholm, Western Illinois University
  J. F. Knight*, University of Notre Dame
  S. Miller, University of Notre Dame
  (1021-03-134)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Automorphism Spectra of Computable Structures.
  Valentina Harizanov, Department of Mathematics, George Washington University
  Russell Miller*, Mathematics Dept., Queens College -- CUNY; Ph.D. Program in Computer Science, CUNY Graduate Center
  Andrei Morozov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
  (1021-03-94)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Non-Branching (and Branching) degrees in the Medvedev Lattice of $\Pi^0_1$ classes.
  Christopher Poulin Alfeld*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  (1021-03-69)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Coding structures into structures.
  Valentina Harizanov*, George Washington University
  (1021-03-213)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Relatively r.e. Reals.
  Bernard A. Anderson*, University of California at Berkeley
  (1021-03-122)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Mass Problems and Hyperarithmeticity.
  Stephen G. Simpson*, Pennsylvania State University
  (1021-03-179)

Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computability Theory in Honor of Manuel Lerman's Retirement, II
Room 211, Business School
Organizers:
Joseph S. Miller, University of Connecticut, Storrs josephmiller@math.uconn.edu
David Reed Solomon, University of Connecticut, Storrs solomon@math.uconn.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Subclasses of the $K$-trivial sets.
  Denis R. Hirschfeldt*, University of Chicago
  (1021-03-125)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Computably Enumerable Sets: Open Questions.
  Peter Cholak*, Notre Dame
  (1021-03-162)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hyperimmune-free degrees and Schnorr triviality.
  Johanna N.Y. Franklin*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1021-03-192)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A decomposition of the Rogers semilattice of a family of d.c.e. sets.
  Steffen Lempp*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Serikzhan A. Badaev, Kazakh National University
  (1021-03-80)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Two approaches to Vaught's Conjecture.
  Gerald E Sacks*, Harvard University
  (1021-03-123)

Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computability Theory in Honor of Manuel Lerman's Retirement, III
Room 211, Business School
Organizers:
Joseph S. Miller, University of Connecticut, Storrs josephmiller@math.uconn.edu
David Reed Solomon, University of Connecticut, Storrs solomon@math.uconn.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Degrees of Homogeneous Models.
  Robert I. Soare*, The University of Chicago
  (1021-03-37)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Algorithmic randomness of closed sets and continuous functions.
  Douglas Cenzer*, University of Florida
  (1021-03-191)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Computable Shuffle Sums of Ordinals.
  Asher M. Kach*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  (1021-03-197)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Lowness properties for randomness in higher recursion theory.
  C T Chong*, National University of Singapore
  (1021-03-216)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Settling Time Reducibility Ordering.
  Barbara F. Csima*, University of Waterloo
  Richard A. Shore, Cornell University
  (1021-03-185)
- 10:30 a.m.
  $\eta$-Representation of Sets and Degrees.
  Kenneth Allen Harris*, University of Chicago
  (1021-03-196)

Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Computability Theory in Honor of Manuel Lerman's Retirement, IV
Room 211, Business School
Organizers:
Joseph S. Miller, University of Connecticut, Storrs josephmiller@math.uconn.edu
David Reed Solomon, University of Connecticut, Storrs solomon@math.uconn.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Logic and Control Theory.
  Anil Nerode*, Cornell University
  (1021-03-182)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Subsystems of 2nd-order arithmetic below $WKL_0$.
  Stephen Binns*, University of Connecticut
  (1021-03-186)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Complex oscillations and the law of the iterated logarithm.
  Bjoern Kjos-Hanssen*, Cornell University
  Anil Nerode, Cornell University
  (1021-03-165)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Direct definitions of the Turing Jump from degree classes.
  Richard A Shore*, Cornell University
  (1021-03-52)

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