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1997 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Memphis, TN, March 21-22, 1997
Meeting #919

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics

  • Friday March 21, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, I

    Room 107, Dunn Hall
    Organizers:
    Paul B. Trow, University of Memphis trowp@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Dynamics of affine maps induced on the torus
      Roy L. Adler*, IBM Research Center
      Bruce Kitchens, IBM Research Center
      Charles Tresser, IBM Research Center
      (919-58-316)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Symbolic dynamics for almost linear maps of the torus
      Bruce P. Kitchens*, IBM Research Center
      Adler L. Adler, IBM Research Center
      Charles P. Tresser, IBM Research Center
      (919-58-122)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Tiling the integers and sofic systems
      Ethan M. Coven*, Wesleyan University
      William Geller, IUPUI
      (919-58-113)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Conjugacies Between Markov Subgroups of $(\Bbb Z/2\Bbb Z^{\Bbb Z^2}$.
      Sylvia Silberger*, Wesleyan University
      (919-58-138)
  • Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, II

    Room 107, Dunn Hall
    Organizers:
    Paul B. Trow, University of Memphis trowp@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Flow equivalence of reducible SFTs and filtered SL(Z) equivalence of their defining infinite matrices
      Mike M. Boyle*, Univ. of Maryland at College Park
      Danrun Huang, University of Washington
      (919-54-140)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Jewett-Krieger: One Step Beyond and Outer Limits
      Nicholas S. Ormes*, University of Maryland, College Park
      (919-58-139)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      A ${\Bbb Z}^2$ Embedding Theorem
      Samuel J. Lightwood*, University of Maryland, College Park
      (919-58-142)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Textile Systems and Two Dimensional Shifts of Finite Type
      Kathleen Madden*, Lafayettte College
      Aimee Johnson, Swarthmore College
      (919-58-43)
  • Saturday March 22, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, III

    Room 107, Dunn Hall
    Organizers:
    Paul B. Trow, University of Memphis trowp@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Duality and ordered cohomology of shifts of finite type
      K. H. Kim, Alabama State University
      F. W. Roush, Alabama State University
      Susan G. Williams*, University of South Alabama
      (919-58-258)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Polynomial matrices and spectra of nonnegative matrices
      K. H. Kim, Alabama State University
      Fred W. Roush*, Alabama State University
      (919-58-135)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Graph presentations for Markov shifts
      Doris Fiebig*, University of Heidelberg
      (919-58-116)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Factor theorems and embedding theorems for locally compact Markov shifts
      Ulf Fiebig*, University of Heidelberg
      (919-58-115)
  • Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, IV

    Room 107, Dunn Hall
    Organizers:
    Paul B. Trow, University of Memphis trowp@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Semigroups Associated with 2-dimensional Shifts
      Nata\v sa Jonoska*, University of South Florida
      (919-58-121)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Characterizing tilings with self-similar structures
      Natalie M Priebe*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      (919-58-295)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      A class of quasi-invariant measures for the $\beta$-shift
      Kennan Shelton*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      (919-28-247)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Friedland's entropy for $Z^2$-actions
      William Geller*, Indiana University-Purdue University
      Mark Pollicott, Manchester University, England
      (919-58-300)
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