PRASAD@RCN.BITNET ("RAJ PRASAD, U. LOWELL, MATH") (09/29/90)
ERGODIC THEORY
A special session of the 860'th meeting of the American
Mathematical Society to be held at Amherst, Massachusetts,
October 20-21, 1990
Saturday, October 20: Session I
09:00 J. Steif, Cornell University, Some rigorous
results for the Greenberg-Hastings model (with R. Durrett, (Cornell))
09:30 D. Handelman, Universite d'Ottawa, Invariants
for shift equivalence of matrices of polynomials
10:00 Y. Ito, Keio University, A characterization of
ergodic dissipative flow
10:30 V. Bergelson, Ohio State University, An
application of ergodic theory to algebra
Saturday, October 20: Session II
14:45 A. Fieldsteel, Wesleyan University, An
ergodic transformation with no non-trivial self-even
equivalences (with D.J. Rudolph, (Maryland))
15:15 A. del Junco, University of Toronto, Kronecker
Gaussian processes and some counterexamples
15:45 N. Friedman, SUNY Albany, Uniformly sweeping
out does not imply mixing (with T.M. Adams, (Albany))
16:15 J. Whalen Kammeyer, USNA Annapolis, A
classification of the isometric extensions of a multidimensional
Bernoulli shift
16:45 J. Hasfura, Wesleyan University, On the
classification of Z^d actions up to Kakutani equivalence
17:15 A. Fisher, Yale University, Sullivan's ratio geometry and
the scenery flow for nonlinear Cantor sets
Sunday, October 21: Session III
08:30 M. Hidalgo, University of Hartford, On the topological
entropy of transitive maps of the interval
09:00 I. Assani, UNC Chapel Hill, A weak type
inequality for some nonsingular transformations
09:30 K. Park, Bryn Mawr College, Entropy of a
skew product with a Z^2-action
10:00 J. Hawkins, UNC Chapel Hill, Product
structure and joinings for endomorphisms I (with K. Dajani)
10:30 K. Dajani, UNC Chapel Hill, Product
structure and joinings for endomorphisms II (with J. Hawkins)
Sunday, October 21: Session IV
14:45 A. Johnson, Tufts University, Commuting
endomorphisms of the circle (with D.J. Rudolph (Maryland))
15:15 S. Eigen, Northeastern University, Ergodic
theory on infinite measure spaces
15:45 V.S. Prasad, University of Lowell, Fixed
points for measure preserving homeomorphisms
Two other sessions of interest at the same meeting are
Aperiodicty and Order and Nonlinear Dynamics in Mathematics
and Science. Further details are announced in Notices of the AMS
and Abstracts of the AMS.
Information: V.S. Prasad: 508-934-2711, e-mail: prasad@rcn.bitnet