AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 12, 2008 00:23:32

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

Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Dynamics, I
Room 006, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Chris Connell, Indiana University connell@indiana.edu
David M. Fisher, Indiana University fisherdm@indiana.edu
Marlies Gerber, Indiana University gerber@indiana.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Insecurity and the growth of the number of geodesics between two points.
  Keith Burns*, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University
  Eugene Gutkin, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika w Toruniu
  (1038-53-301)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Three Gap Theorem in Riemannian Geometry.
  Benjamin Schmidt*, University of Chicago
  Ian Biringer, University of Chicago
  (1038-53-153)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A new isomorphism invariant for free group actions.
  Lewis Phylip Bowen*, University of Hawaii
  (1038-37-256)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Anosov rigidity -- Nonuniform hyperbolicity everywhere implies uniform hyperbolicity.
  Yakov Pesin*, Penn State University
  (1038-37-314)

Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Dynamics, II
Room 006, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Chris Connell, Indiana University connell@indiana.edu
David M. Fisher, Indiana University fisherdm@indiana.edu
Marlies Gerber, Indiana University gerber@indiana.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Amenable groups that act on the line.
  Dave Witte Morris*, University of Lethbridge, Canada
  (1038-37-81)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Totally geodesic submanifolds in locally symmetric spaces of non-compact type.
  Jean-Francois Lafont*, Ohio State University
  Benjamin Schmidt, University of Chicago
  (1038-53-302)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Ergodic Frame Flow and Rank Rigidity.
  David Constantine*, University of Michigan
  (1038-53-315)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Irreducibility of boundary representation of hyperbolic group.
  Roman Muchnik*, Lehman College
  (1038-37-341)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Real Saddle-Node Bifurcation from the Complex Viewpoint.
  Michal Misiurewicz, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
  Rodrigo A Perez*, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
  (1038-37-308)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Metrics and rigidity questions for hyperbolic groups.
  Igor Mineyev*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1038-20-268)

Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Dynamics, III
Room 006, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Chris Connell, Indiana University connell@indiana.edu
David M. Fisher, Indiana University fisherdm@indiana.edu
Marlies Gerber, Indiana University gerber@indiana.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the tip of the tongue.
  Micha{\l} Misiurewicz*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
  Ana Rodrigues, Universidade do Porto
  (1038-37-103)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Liouville property on regular covers.
  Anders Karlsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
  Fran\c cois Ledrappier*, University of Notre Dame
  (1038-58-83)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Continued fractions, natural extension maps and their geometric structure.
  Ilie D Ugarcovici*, DePaul University
  (1038-37-235)
- 10:30 a.m.
  An intrinsic proof of Gromoll-Grove diameter rigidity theorem.
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame
  Hongyan Tang*, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  (1038-58-67)

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