AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 3, 2009 00:21:11

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

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday April 25, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Lie group actions, Teichmüller Flows and Number Theory, I
Room 329, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Jayadev Athreya, Yale University jayadev.athreya@yale.edu
Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University cheung@math.sfsu.edu
Anton Zorich, Rennes University Anton.Zorich@univ-rennes1.fr
- 9:00 a.m.
  Billiards in rectangles with slits.
  Howard Masur*, University of Chicago
  Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University
  Pascal Hubert, Marseilles University
  (1049-37-119)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the minimum dilatation of pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphisms on surfaces of small genera.
  Erwan Lanneau*, Centre de Physique Theorique, Marseille, France
  (1049-37-144)

Saturday April 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Lie group actions, Teichmüller Flows and Number Theory, II
Room 329, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Jayadev Athreya, Yale University jayadev.athreya@yale.edu
Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University cheung@math.sfsu.edu
Anton Zorich, Rennes University Anton.Zorich@univ-rennes1.fr
- 3:00 p.m.
  Computing L-functions with homogeneous dynamics.
  Akshay Venkatesh*, Stanford University
  (1049-11-118)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Dynamical properties of automorphisms of Cartan geometries.
  Charles Frances*, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay
  (1049-53-140)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Lie group actions, Teichmüller Flows and Number Theory, III
Room 329, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Jayadev Athreya, Yale University jayadev.athreya@yale.edu
Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University cheung@math.sfsu.edu
Anton Zorich, Rennes University Anton.Zorich@univ-rennes1.fr
- 9:00 a.m.
  Completed cycles and singularities of stable maps.
  Dimitri Zvonkine*, CNRS, visiting Stanford University
  (1049-14-177)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Badly approximable systems of affine forms, fractals, and Schmidt games.
  Manfred Einsiedler, The Ohio State University
  Jimmy Tseng*, The Ohio State University
  (1049-11-163)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Lie group actions, Teichmüller Flows and Number Theory, IV
Room 329, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Jayadev Athreya, Yale University jayadev.athreya@yale.edu
Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University cheung@math.sfsu.edu
Anton Zorich, Rennes University Anton.Zorich@univ-rennes1.fr
- 3:00 p.m.
  Degeneration of flat structures.
  Moon Duchin*, University of Michigan
  Christopher Leininger, University of Illinois
  Kasra Rafi, University of Oklahoma
  (1049-51-198)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Real REL is a flow.
  Barak Weiss*, Ben Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel.
  (1049-37-70)

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