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AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 26, 2022 03:30:04

now meeting virtually, EDT (hosted by the American Mathematical Society), Virtual, RI
March 19-20, 2022 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1176

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday March 19, 2022, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Dynamics and Billiards, I
Special Session 10, American Mathematical Society
Organizers:
Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University boris.hasselblatt@tufts.edu
Zbigniew Nitecki, Tufts University
Kathryn Lindsey, Boston College
- 9:00 a.m.
  Slope gap distributions of Veech translation surfaces.
  Jane Wang*, Indiana University Bloomington
  Luis Kumanduri, MIT
  Anthony Sanchez, University of California San Diego
  (1176-37-231)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Weakly Mixing Polygonal Billiards.
  Jon Chaika, University of Utah
  Giovanni Forni*, University of Maryland
  (1176-37-181)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Periodic directions on the Mucube.
  Andre P. Oliveira, Wesleyan University
  Felipe A. Ramírez, Wesleyan University
  Chandrika Sadanand, Bowdoin College
  Sunrose T. Shrestha*, Wesleyan University
  (1176-37-203)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Billiards, dynamics, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces.
  Paul Joseph Apisa*, University of Michigan
  (1176-37-102)

Saturday March 19, 2022, 3:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Dynamics and Billiards, II
Special Session 10, American Mathematical Society
Organizers:
Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University boris.hasselblatt@tufts.edu
Zbigniew Nitecki, Tufts University
Kathryn Lindsey, Boston College
- 3:00 p.m.
  Projective cones for dispersing billiards.
  Mark F Demers*, Fairfield University
  (1176-37-202)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Embedded surfaces of finite genus with Anosov geodesic flow: Part I.
  Victor J. Donnay*, Department of Mathematics, Bryn Mawr College
  Daniel Visscher, Department of Mathematics, Ithaca College
  (1176-37-174)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Embedded surfaces of finite genus with Anosov geodesic flow: Part II.
  Victor Donnay, Bryn Mawr College
  Daniel Visscher*, Ithaca College
  (1176-37-190)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Dynamics of Hénon Maps with Zero Entropy.
  Enrique Pujals*, Graduate Center-CUNY
  (1176-37-336)

Sunday March 20, 2022, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Dynamics and Billiards, III
Special Session 10, American Mathematical Society
Organizers:
Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University boris.hasselblatt@tufts.edu
Zbigniew Nitecki, Tufts University
Kathryn Lindsey, Boston College
- 9:00 a.m.
  Non-realizability of some big mapping class groups.
  Y M He*, University of Oklahoma
  (1176-37-144)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Farey tree structure on a family of pseudo-Anosov braids.
  Ethan Farber*, Boston College
  (1176-37-192)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Thermodynamic formalism for non-compact systems and application to geodesic flow on geometrically finite CAT(-1) spaces.
  Vaughn Climenhaga, University of Houston
  Daniel J Thompson*, Ohio State University
  Tianyu Wang, Shanghai Mathematical Center, Fudan University
  (1176-37-164)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Matings of (cubic) polynomials.
  Thomas Sharland*, University of Rhode Island
  (1176-37-155)

Sunday March 20, 2022, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Dynamics and Billiards, IV
Special Session 10, American Mathematical Society
Organizers:
Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University boris.hasselblatt@tufts.edu
Zbigniew Nitecki, Tufts University
Kathryn Lindsey, Boston College
- 3:00 p.m.
  Rank-one transformations, odometers, and finite factors.
  Matthew Foreman, University of California, Irvine
  Su Gao, Nankai University
  Aaron Hill, Proof School
  Cesar E. Silva*, Williams College
  Benjamin Weiss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  (1176-37-191)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Topological Speedups of Higher Dimensional Actions.
  Aimee Johnson*, Swarthmore College
  (1176-37-110)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Periodic billiard paths on regular polygons.
  Diana Davis*, Phillips Exeter Academy
  Samuel Lelievre, Université Paris-Saclay
  (1176-37-319)