Spring Western Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, April 21, 2013 00:20:08

Associate secretaries:

Saturday April 13, 2013, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Approximation on Manifolds and Fractals: Dynamics, Measure Theory and Schmidt Games, I
Room 180, Eaton Humanities
Organizers:
Wolfgang Schmidt, University of Colorado at Boulder
Lior Fishman, University of North Texas lfishman@unt.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some Topics in Diophantine Approximation.
  Wolfgang M Schmidt*, University of Colorado Boulder
  (1089-11-145)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Strong $C^1$ Incompressibility, Badly Approximable Linear Forms, and Schmidt's Game.
  Ryan Broderick*, Northwestern University
  Lior Fishman, University of North Texas
  David Simmons, The Ohio State University
  (1089-37-225)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Intrinsic Approximation on Quadratic Varieties.
  Lior Fishman, University of North Texas
  Dmitry Kleinbock, Brandeis University
  Keith Merrill*, Brandeis University
  David Simmons, Ohio State University
  (1089-11-185)

Saturday April 13, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Approximation on Manifolds and Fractals: Dynamics, Measure Theory and Schmidt Games, II
Room 180, Eaton Humanities
Organizers:
Wolfgang Schmidt, University of Colorado at Boulder
Lior Fishman, University of North Texas lfishman@unt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Schmidt games for billiards, interval exchange transformations and measured foliations.
  Howard Masur*, University of Chicago
  Jon Chaika, University of Chicago
  Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State
  (1089-32-53)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Badly approximable directions on flat surfaces.
  Jon Chaika*, University of Chicago/University of Utah
  Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State
  Howard Masur, University of Chicago
  (1089-51-189)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Absolute Schmidt's Game With Regrets.
  Erez Nesharim*, Tel Aviv University
  (1089-11-195)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Schmidt games and conditions on resonant sets.
  Steffen Weil*, University of Zurich
  (1089-51-168)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The distribution of rational points near planar curves and metric Diophantine approximation.
  Jing-Jing Huang*, University of Toronto
  (1089-11-242)

Sunday April 14, 2013, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Approximation on Manifolds and Fractals: Dynamics, Measure Theory and Schmidt Games, III
Room 180, Eaton Humanities
Organizers:
Wolfgang Schmidt, University of Colorado at Boulder
Lior Fishman, University of North Texas lfishman@unt.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Multiplicative and Inhomogeneous Diophantine Approximation.
  Sanju Velani*, University of York
  (1089-11-33)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Winning and losing parameters of Schmidt's ($\alpha$, $\beta$)-game.
  Tue N Ly*, Brandeis University
  (1089-91-147)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Construction of normal numbers through homeomorphisms of Cantor spaces.
  Bill Mance*, University of North Texas
  Jimmy Tseng, University of Bristol
  (1089-11-71)

Sunday April 14, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Approximation on Manifolds and Fractals: Dynamics, Measure Theory and Schmidt Games, IV
Room 180, Eaton Humanities
Organizers:
Wolfgang Schmidt, University of Colorado at Boulder
Lior Fishman, University of North Texas lfishman@unt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Diophantine approximation and the geometry of limit sets in Gromov hyperbolic metric spaces.
  David Samuel Simmons*, Ohio State University
  (1089-37-58)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Geometrically extremal measures.
  Tushar Das*, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR
  (1089-28-85)