AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 13, 2010 00:34:10

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

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

Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Statistical Properties of Dynamical Systems, I
Room 327, Tyler Haynes Commons
Organizers:
Michael J. Field, University of Houston
Matthew J. Nicol, University of Houston nicol@math.uh.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Billiards, Markov chains, and classical scattering.
  Renato Feres*, Department of Mathematics, Washington University, St. Louis
  Hong-Kun Zhang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (1065-37-103)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Products of random matrices and the randomly forced Hill's equation.
  Anthony Michael Bloch*, University of Michigan
  Fred C Adams, University of Michigan
  (1065-37-108)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Ergodicity of the Weil-Petersson geodesic flow.
  Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
  Howard Masur, University of Chicago
  Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University
  (1065-37-231)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Ensemble Methods and Data Assimilation.
  Cecilia Gonzalez-Tokman, University of Victoria
  Brian R Hunt*, University of Maryland
  (1065-37-266)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Structurally Stable Nonholonomic Integrators.
  Dmitry V Zenkov*, North Carolina State University
  Cameron Lynch, North Carolina State University
  (1065-70-78)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Transitivity of non-compact extensions of hyperbolic systems.
  Ian Melbourne, University of Surrey, UK
  Viorel Ni{ţ}ic{ă}, West Chester University
  Andrew T{ö}r{ö}k*, University of Houston
  (1065-37-158)

Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Statistical Properties of Dynamical Systems, II
Room 327, Tyler Haynes Commons
Organizers:
Michael J. Field, University of Houston
Matthew J. Nicol, University of Houston nicol@math.uh.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Local dimensions for iterated function systems.
  De-Jun Feng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Huyi Hu*, Michigan State University
  (1065-37-248)
- 3:00 p.m.
  SRB measures for non-uniformly hyperbolic systems.
  Vaughn Climenhaga*, University of Maryland
  Yakov Pesin, The Pennsylvania State University
  Dmitry Dolgopyat, University of Maryland
  (1065-37-115)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Subshift factors of the $\beta$-shift are intrinsically ergodic.
  Daniel J. Thompson*, Pennsylvania State University
  Vaughn Climenhaga, University of Maryland
  (1065-37-121)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Some new results on martingale approximation for stationary processes.
  Manfred Denker*, Mathematics Department, Pennsylvania State University
  (1065-60-10)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Return times statistics for Markov towers.
  Nicolai T Haydn*, University of Southern California
  (1065-37-179)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Extremal index in dynamical systems.
  A C Freitas, University of Porto, Portugal
  J M Freitas, University of Porto, Portugal
  Mike Todd*, Boston University
  (1065-37-101)

Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Statistical Properties of Dynamical Systems, III
Room 327, Tyler Haynes Commons
Organizers:
Michael J. Field, University of Houston
Matthew J. Nicol, University of Houston nicol@math.uh.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Boundary regularity of rotation sets.
  Christian Wolf*, City College of New York
  (1065-37-215)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Rigid properties of some measures on the torus.
  Aaron W Brown*, Tufts University
  (1065-37-86)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dynamical Borel-Centelli lemmas for some nonuniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems.
  Chinmaya Gupta*, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  Matthew Nicol, University of Houston, Houston, TX
  William Ott, University of Houston, Houston,TX
  (1065-37-170)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Statistical properties of dynamical systems of mixed type and skew extensions.
  Michael Field*, University of Houston
  (1065-37-227)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Erdös-Rényi laws for hyperbolic dynamical systems.
  Manfred Denker, Mathematics Department, Penn State University
  Matthew Nicol*, Mathematics Department, University of Houston
  (1065-37-159)
- 10:30 a.m.
  From limit cycles to strange attractors.
  William Raymond Ott*, University of Houston
  Mikko Stenlund, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  (1065-37-270)