American Mathematical Society

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, November 20, 2015 11:26:24

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday November 14, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Smooth and Symbolic Ergodic Theory, I
Room 203, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Andrey Gogolev, State University of New York at Binghamton
Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Pennsylvania State University
Zhiren Wang, Pennsylvania State University zhirenw@psu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Effective equidistribution of twisted horocycle flows and horocycle maps.
  Livio Flaminio, Universite' de Lille, France
  Giovanni Forni*, University of Maryland-College Park
  James Tanis, College de France, Paris, France
  (1115-37-275)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Thermodynamics of the Katok Map.
  Yakov Pesin*, Pennsylvania State University
  (1115-37-226)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Reduction theory for Fuchsian groups and coding of geodesics.
  Svetlana Katok*, Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University
  (1115-37-227)

Saturday November 14, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
Special Session on Smooth and Symbolic Ergodic Theory, II
Room 203, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Andrey Gogolev, State University of New York at Binghamton
Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Pennsylvania State University
Zhiren Wang, Pennsylvania State University zhirenw@psu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Windings of unipotent flows.
  Dmitry Dolgopyat*, University of Maryland
  Omri Sarig, Weizmann Institute of Science
  (1115-37-128)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Deformation spaces of rational maps.
  Tanya Firsova*, Kansas State University
  Jeremy Kahn, CUNY Graduate Center
  Nikita Selinger, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (1115-37-377)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Flexibility of entropies and Lyapunov exponents for smooth dynamical systems.
  Anatole Katok*, Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University
  (1115-37-319)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Continuity of Lyapunov exponents for 2D fiber-bunched cocycles.
  Lucas Backes, IMPA
  Aaron W Brown*, University of Chicago
  Clark Butler, University of Chicago
  (1115-37-370)

Sunday November 15, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Smooth and Symbolic Ergodic Theory, III
Room 203, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Andrey Gogolev, State University of New York at Binghamton
Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Pennsylvania State University
Zhiren Wang, Pennsylvania State University zhirenw@psu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Liv\v{s}ic Theorem for Diffeomorphisms Group
  Misha Guysinsky*, Pennsylvania State University
  (1115-37-410)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On smooth classification of hyperbolic higher rank abelian actions.
  Boris Kalinin*, Penn State University
  Victoria Sadovskaya, Penn State University
  (1115-37-392)

Sunday November 15, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Smooth and Symbolic Ergodic Theory, IV
Room 203, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Andrey Gogolev, State University of New York at Binghamton
Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Pennsylvania State University
Zhiren Wang, Pennsylvania State University zhirenw@psu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Normal forms on contracting foliations: smoothness and homogeneous structure.
  Boris Kalinin, Penn State University
  Victoria Sadovskaya*, Penn State University
  (1115-37-376)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Flow equivalence of G-SFTs and PET sofic shifts; complete algebraic invariants and their decidability, with application to Cuntz-Krieger algebras.
  Mike Boyle*, University of Maryland
  (1115-37-301)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The fascinating and unlikely geometry of billiards in certain polygons.
  Alexander Wright*, Stanford University and the Clay Math Institute
  (1115-37-344)