AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 4, 2009 00:27:23

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Friday March 27, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on The Interface Between Number Theory and Dynamical Systems, I
Room 245, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Florin Boca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign fboca@math.uiuc.edu
Jeffrey Lagarias, University of Michigan lagarias@umich.edu
Kenneth Stolarsky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stolarsk@math.uiuc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  (Non)-uniform bounds for rational preperiodic points in arithmetic dynamics.
  Robert L. Benedetto*, Amherst College
  (1047-11-73)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Dynamical Mordell-Lang problems.
  Thomas J Tucker*, University of Rochester
  (1047-11-23)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Galois theory of iterated Euclidean constructions.
  R. Patrick Morton*, Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)
  (1047-12-464)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On the Number of Rational Pre-Images of the Origin Under Quadratic Dynamical Systems.
  Xander Faber, McGill University
  Benjamin Hutz*, Amherst College
  (1047-11-445)

Saturday March 28, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on The Interface Between Number Theory and Dynamical Systems, II
Room 245, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Florin Boca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign fboca@math.uiuc.edu
Jeffrey Lagarias, University of Michigan lagarias@umich.edu
Kenneth Stolarsky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stolarsk@math.uiuc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Sturmian adic dynamical systems in the Stern-Brocot (Farey) diagram.
  Karl Petersen*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (1047-37-20)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Palindromic properties of infinite sequences with applications to Number Theory.
  Amy Glen*, The Mathematics Institute, Reykjavik University
  (1047-11-206)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Division Point Measures Related to Subdivisions.
  Jeanette Olli*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (1047-37-192)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Mean-Median Map.
  Marc Chamberland*, Grinnell College
  (1047-37-264)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Critical orbits in arithmetic dynamics.
  Rafe Jones*, College of the Holy Cross
  (1047-11-394)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Multidimensional polynomial iterations and Ismail's q-discriminants.
  Khang Tran*, University of Illinois
  Kenneth B Stolarsky, University of Illinois
  (1047-11-156)

Saturday March 28, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on The Interface Between Number Theory and Dynamical Systems, III
Room 245, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Florin Boca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign fboca@math.uiuc.edu
Jeffrey Lagarias, University of Michigan lagarias@umich.edu
Kenneth Stolarsky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stolarsk@math.uiuc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Polynomial extensions of Szemeredi's theorem on arithmetic progressions and ergodic theory.
  Vitaly Bergelson*, Ohio State University
  (1047-11-284)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Hardy field configurations on dense subsets of the integers.
  Nikos Frantzikinakis*, University of Memphis
  (1047-37-439)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Multiplication-Convolution Dynamical System.
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen*, Utah Valley University
  (1047-11-81)

Sunday March 29, 2009, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on The Interface Between Number Theory and Dynamical Systems, IV
Room 245, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Florin Boca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign fboca@math.uiuc.edu
Jeffrey Lagarias, University of Michigan lagarias@umich.edu
Kenneth Stolarsky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stolarsk@math.uiuc.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Weyl chamber flow, sections, and speculations about reduction theory (preliminary report).
  Anatole Katok*, Penn State University
  (1047-37-446)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Apollonian Circle Packings and Horospherical Flows on Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds.
  Alex V Kontorovich*, Brown University
  Hee Oh, Brown University
  (1047-11-61)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Quasiperiodic motion for the pentagram map.
  Valentin Ovsienko, University Lyon 1
  Richard Schwartz, Brown University
  Sergei Tabachnikov*, Penn State
  (1047-37-204)
- 12:00 p.m.
  The distribution of the free path length of the linear flow in a honeycomb.
  Florin P Boca*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  (1047-11-373)

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