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.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Continuum Theory (dedicated to Jo Heath, Auburn University, on the occasion of her retirement), I
Room S316, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Judy A. Kennedy, University of Delaware and Lamar University
Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperkm@auburn.edu
Van C. Nall, University of Richmond
- 8:00 a.m.
  Open questions concerning k-to-1 maps defined on continua.
  Jo W. Heath*, Auburn University
  (1033-54-29)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Inverse Limits with Upper Semi-continuous Functions That Are Unions of Mappings.
  W. T. Ingram*, Spring Branch, TX
  (1033-54-122)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Creating homogeneous twisted fiber bundles from higher dimensional Menger manifolds.
  Kevin B. Gammon*, Auburn University
  (1033-57-87)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Concerning Indecomposability of Preimages of Planar Continua Under the Map $z \mapsto z^n$.
  R Patrick Vernon*, Rhodes College
  (1033-54-47)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Mappings of continua with some special properties.
  Andrew Lelek*, Auburn University
  (1033-54-85)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Local Separating Points and Finite Oscillation.
  Dale Daniel*, Lamar University
  (1033-54-103)

Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Continuum Theory (dedicated to Jo Heath, Auburn University, on the occasion of her retirement), II
Room S316, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Judy A. Kennedy, University of Delaware and Lamar University
Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperkm@auburn.edu
Van C. Nall, University of Richmond
- 2:30 p.m.
  Lifting Paths on Quotient Spaces.
  D. Daniel, Lamar University
  J. Nikiel, Opole University
  L.B. Treybig, Texas A&M University
  Murat Tuncali*, Nipissing University
  E.D. Tymchatyn, University of Saskatchewan
  (1033-54-167)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Buried points in rational Julia sets.
  John C Mayer*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (1033-54-242)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Recognizing Indecomposable Continua in Surfaces from their Complements.
  Clinton P Curry*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (1033-54-224)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Difficulties in the approximation of convex bodies by polytopes.
  Edwin H Smith*, Jacksonville State University
  (1033-52-219)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Path Curvature on a convex roof (or off it).
  Robert Ford*, Auburn University
  (1033-52-169)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A brief review of the mathematical works of Jo Heath up to 2007.
  Van C Nall*, University of Richmond
  (1033-54-95)

Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Continuum Theory (dedicated to Jo Heath, Auburn University, on the occasion of her retirement), III
Room S316, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Judy A. Kennedy, University of Delaware and Lamar University
Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperkm@auburn.edu
Van C. Nall, University of Richmond
- 8:00 a.m.
  Problems on distinguishing inverse limit spaces.
  Stewart Baldwin*, Auburn University
  (1033-54-227)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The topology of continua that are approximated by subcontinua.
  Christopher G. Mouron*, Rhodes College
  (1033-54-175)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Ingram's Conjecture for a unimodal map with a non-recurrent critical point.
  Brian E Raines*, Baylor University
  Sonja Stimac, University of Zagreb
  (1033-54-218)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Composant Structure in Inverse Limits of Tent Cores.
  David J. Ryden*, Baylor University
  (1033-54-231)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hereditarily Indecomposable Subcontinua of the Inverse Limit of Lexicographic Arcs are Metric.
  Michel Smith*, Auburn University
  (1033-54-35)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Union of two non-metric spaces that each support a Whitney map does not necessarily support a Whitney map.
  Jennifer W. Stone*, Auburn University
  (1033-54-101)

Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Continuum Theory (dedicated to Jo Heath, Auburn University, on the occasion of her retirement), IV
Room S316, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Judy A. Kennedy, University of Delaware and Lamar University
Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperkm@auburn.edu
Van C. Nall, University of Richmond
- 2:30 p.m.
  Cohomology of some non-metric mapping tori.
  George Kozlowski*, Auburn University
  (1033-55-138)
- 3:00 p.m.
  An Inverse Limit of Lexicographic Arcs.
  Regina Greiwe*, Auburn University
  Michel Smith, Auburn University
  (1033-54-128)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A simple extension of the bagpipe lemma to dimension 3.
  Alexander Y. Shibakov*, Tennessee Tech University
  (1033-54-156)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Julia sets of basic uniCremer polynomials of arbitrary degree.
  Lex G Oversteegen*, UAB
  A Blokh, UAB
  (1033-37-96)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Inverse limits of simplicial trees and the problem of small retractions of dendroids onto trees.
  Piotr Minc*, Auburn University
  (1033-54-92)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Counting Wandering Continua.
  Alexander Blokh*, UAB
  (1033-37-256)

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