AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 13, 2007 00:36:28

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2007 Fall Central Section Meeting
Chicago, IL, October 5-6, 2007 (Friday - Saturday)
Meeting #1030

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

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Special Session on Smooth Dynamical Systems

• Friday October 5, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Smooth Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 8012, DePaul Center
  Organizers:
  Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University mgidea@neiu.edu
  Ilie D. Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometric methods for instability in Hamiltonian systems.
    A. Delshams, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya
    M. Gidea, Northeastern IIllinois University
    R. de la Llave*, Univ. of Texas at Austin
    T. M.-Seara, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya
    (1030-37-317)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Arnold diffusion for non polynomial perturbations of an a-priori unstable Hamiltonian system.
    Gemma Huguet*, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
    Amadeu Delshams, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
    (1030-37-79)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Shadowing orbits for transition chains of invariant tori.
    Clark Robinson*, Northwestern University
    (1030-37-178)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dynamics of Volume-Preserving Maps near a Saddle-Node-Hopf Bifurcation.
    James D Meiss*, University of Colorado
    (1030-37-52)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A result regarding the boundary map of an attractor-repeller pair.
    Catalin Georgescu*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of South Dakota
    (1030-37-359)
• Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Smooth Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 8012, DePaul Center
  Organizers:
  Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University mgidea@neiu.edu
  Ilie D. Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The compressible fluid two-body problem.
    C Chicone*, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
    (1030-37-112)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Invariant Objects for Dynamical Systems.
    John W Robertson*, Wichita State University
    (1030-37-29)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Solenoids and adding machines in Hamiltonian Systems.
    Kenneth R. Meyer*, University of Cincinnati
    (1030-37-19)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Solenoidal minimal sets in foliations.
    Steven Hurder*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1030-37-94)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Pathological foliations, revisited.
    Amie Wilkinson*, Northwestern University
    (1030-37-287)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Homology of Invariant Foliations.
    Radu Saghin*, University of Toronto
    (1030-37-241)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Harmonic functions and Brownian motion on foliated manifolds.
    Renato Feres*, Washington University
    Sergio Fenley, Florida State University
    Kamlesh Parwani, University Of Missouri, St. Louis
    (1030-37-174)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Smooth Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 8012, DePaul Center
  Organizers:
  Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University mgidea@neiu.edu
  Ilie D. Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Measure rigidity for smooth group actions: recent results and perspectives.
    Anatole Katok*, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1030-37-350)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Smooth Rigidity for Lattice Actions.
    Theron J Hitchman*, University of Northern Iowa
    (1030-37-246)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Liv\v{s}ic Theory for Cocycles taking Values in a Diffeomorphism Group.
    Alistair Windsor*, University of Memphis
    (1030-37-237)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Logarithm laws for function fields.
    Jayadev S Athreya, Princeton University
    Anish Ghosh*, The University of Texas at Austin
    Amritanshu Prasad, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.
    (1030-37-150)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Numerical Computation of Invariant Manifolds and Applications.
    Sheldon E Newhouse*, Mathematics Department, Michigan State University
    (1030-37-264)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Smooth Dynamical Systems, IV
  Room 8012, DePaul Center
  Organizers:
  Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University mgidea@neiu.edu
  Ilie D. Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Mixing for hyperbolic flows.
    Michael Field*, University of Houston
    (1030-37-66)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quasi-Anosov diffeomorphisms of 3-manifolds.
    Todd Fisher*, Brigham Young University
    Jana Rodriguez Hertz, Facultad de Ingenieria - Universidad de la Republica
    (1030-37-118)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On nearest neighbors under isometries and nearest neighbor metrics.
    Ben Schmidt*, U. of Chicago
    (1030-51-274)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Extreme value distributions for non-uniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems.
    Mark Holland, University of Exeter, UK
    Matthew Nicol, University of Houston
    Andrew T\"or\"ok*, University of Houston
    (1030-37-399)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Whitney regularity for solutions to the coboundary equation on Cantor sets.
    Mark Holland, University of Exeter
    Matthew Nicol*, University of Houston
    Andrew Torok, University of Houston
    (1030-37-147)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Smooth actions of mapping class groups on the circle.
    Kamlesh Parwani*, Eastern Illinois University
    (1030-37-173)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Density of accessibility for partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms with one dimensional center.
    Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
    Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Universidad de la Rep\'ublica, Uruguay
    Jana Rodriguez Hertz, Universidad de la Rep\'ublica, Uruguay
    Raul Ures, Universidad de la Rep\'ublica, Uruguay
    Anna Talitskaya, Northwestern University
    (1030-37-306)

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