AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 10, 2007 00:30:01

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, I
Room S334, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University tabachni@math.psu.edu
Richard Schwartz, Brown University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Speed of ergodicity for rational polygonal billiards.
  Giovanni Forni*, University of Maryland
  Jayadev Athreya, Princeton University
  (1033-37-160)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Billiards in L-shaped tables with barriers.
  Matt C Bainbridge*, University of Chicago
  (1033-51-233)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Defocusing Fails for Non-Absolutely Focusing Components.
  Leonid A. Bunimovich, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Alexander Grigo*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1033-37-114)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Galton Board: limit theorems and recurrence.
  Nikolai Chernov*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Dmitry Dolgopyat, PennState
  (1033-37-68)

Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, II
Room S334, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University tabachni@math.psu.edu
Richard Schwartz, Brown University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Topological dichotomy versus strict ergodicity.
  Yitwah Cheung*, San Francisco State University
  Pascal Hubert, LATP, Case cour A, Facult\'e des Sciences de Saint J\'er\^ome
  Howard Masur, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1033-37-203)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Symbolic dynamics of geodesics on surfaces of non-positive curvature.
  Yuliy Baryshnikov*, Bell Labs
  (1033-58-91)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Periodic orbits in outer billiards.
  Vadim Zharnitsky*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Alex Tumanov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1033-37-186)

Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, III
Room S334, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University tabachni@math.psu.edu
Richard Schwartz, Brown University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Birkhoff sums of non-integrable functions over rotations and IETs.
  Corinna Ulcigrai*, University of Bristol and MSRI
  (1033-37-78)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Modular fibers.
  Martin J Schmoll*, Clemson University
  (1033-58-151)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Traps in Polygonal Billiards.
  Gregory Galperin*, Eastern Illinois University
  (1033-37-199)

Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, IV
Room S334, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University tabachni@math.psu.edu
Richard Schwartz, Brown University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Cone Exchange Systems.
  Arek Goetz*, San Franicisco State University
  (1033-37-250)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dynamics on an infinite surface with the lattice property.
  W Patrick Hooper*, Northwestern University
  (1033-37-67)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Stability of periodic billiard trajectories in polyhedra.
  Yaroslav Vorobets*, Texas A&M University
  (1033-37-247)

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