AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, November 2, 2008 00:29:44

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 25, 2008, 4:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Topology to Dynamical Systems, I
Room 205, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
John C. Mayer, University of Alabama at Birmingham mayer@math.uab.edu
Lex G. Oversteegen, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- 4:30 p.m.
  Continuum theory found in dynamical systems.
  James T. Rogers, Jr.*, Tulane University
  (1044-37-214)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Fixed points in non-invariant plane continua.
  Lex G Oversteegen*, UAB
  Alexander M Blokh, UAB
  (1044-54-234)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Fatou-Douady-Hubbard-Shishikura inequality and wandering ray-continua.
  A. Blokh*, UAB
  D. Childers, UAB
  Lex Oversteegen, UAB
  D. Schleicher, Jacobs University
  G. Levin, Hebrew University
  (1044-37-239)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Buried points in Julia sets.
  John C. Mayer*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Clinton P. Curry, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (1044-37-215)

Sunday October 26, 2008, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of Topology to Dynamical Systems, II
Room 205, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
John C. Mayer, University of Alabama at Birmingham mayer@math.uab.edu
Lex G. Oversteegen, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- 10:00 a.m.
  On homotopy equivalences of the Hawaiian earring.
  Paul Fabel*, Mississippi State University
  (1044-55-238)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the number of fixed points of orientation reversing planar homeomorphisms.
  Jan P Boronski*, Auburn University
  (1044-55-218)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Locally connected models for Julia sets of polynomials.
  Alexander M. Blokh, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Clinton P. Curry*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Lex G. Oversteegen, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (1044-37-240)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Some Generalizations for Thurston's Classification of Gaps to the Map $\sigma_3$.
  Jeffrey K Houghton*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (1044-37-232)

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