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Central Fall Sectional Meeting
Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
October 2-4, 2015 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1112
Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Special Session on Ergodic and Symbolic Actions of Amenable Groups
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Saturday October 3, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic and Symbolic Actions of Amenable Groups, I
Room 404, Mundelein Center
Organizers:
Ayşe Şahin, DePaul University
Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Shifts of low complexity.
Bryna Kra*, Northwestern University
Van Cyr, Bucknell University
(1112-37-208) -
9:30 a.m.
Growth in the automorphism group of a minimal subshift.
Van Cyr*, Bucknell University
Bryna Kra, Northwestern University
(1112-37-652) -
10:00 a.m.
On automorphism groups of "small" subshifts.
Michael H. Schraudner*, CMM - Universidad de Chile
(1112-37-624) -
10:30 a.m.
Face transformations on dynamical cubes and its applications.
Wenbo Sun*, Northwestern University
(1112-37-513)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic and Symbolic Actions of Amenable Groups, II
Room 404, Mundelein Center
Organizers:
Ayşe Şahin, DePaul University
Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Strongly aperiodic SFTs on surface groups.
David Bruce Cohen*, University of Chicago
(1112-20-492) -
3:00 p.m.
Periodic points on shifts of finite type and commensurability invariants of groups.
David Carroll, Texas A & M University
Andrew Penland*, Western Carolina University
(1112-20-358) -
3:30 p.m.
Explicit Return Times for a Subsystem of the Kari-Culik Tilings.
Jason Siefken*, Northwestern University
(1112-37-307) -
4:00 p.m.
A rigidity theorem for generalized odometers.
Maria Isabel cortez, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Konstantin Medynets*, United States Naval Academy
(1112-37-134) -
4:30 p.m.
Techniques and concepts of amenability of discrete groups.
Kate Juschenko*, Northwestern University
(1112-20-413)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 4, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic and Symbolic Actions of Amenable Groups, III
Room 404, Mundelein Center
Organizers:
Ayşe Şahin, DePaul University
Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The spectrum of unit suspensions and embeddings for $\mathbb Z^d$ actions, and directional ergodic properties.
E Arthur Robinson*, Department of Mathematics, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052
Joseph Rosenblatt, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202
Ayse A Sahin, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435
(1112-37-264) -
9:30 a.m.
Gap distribution for saddle connections on the octagon.
Caglar Uyanik, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Grace Work*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
(1112-37-618) -
10:00 a.m.
Asymptotic Shapes of Ergodic Random Metrics on Nilpotent Groups.
Michael Cantrell*, Univ. Illinois, Chicago
Alex Furman, Univ. Illinois, Chicago
(1112-37-106) -
10:30 a.m.
Homogeneity of group actions on Cantor sets.
Jessica Dyer, University of Illinois at Chicago
Steven Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago
Olga Lukina*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(1112-37-206)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday October 4, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic and Symbolic Actions of Amenable Groups, IV
Room 404, Mundelein Center
Organizers:
Ayşe Şahin, DePaul University
Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Speedups of ergodic $\mathbb{Z}^d$-actions.
Aimee S.A. Johnson*, Swarthmore College
(1112-37-133) -
2:30 p.m.
More on speedups of ergodic $\mathbb{Z}^d$-actions.
David M McClendon*, Ferris State University
(1112-37-486) -
3:00 p.m.
Computation of topological entropy for $\mathbb{Z}^d$ shifts of finite type.
Stefan Adams, University of Warwick
Raimundo Briceno, University of British Columbia
Brian Marcus, University of British Columbia
Ronnie Pavlov*, University of Denver
(1112-37-626) -
3:30 p.m.
Invariant Random Subgroups and the Furstenberg Entropy of stationary actions.
Yair Hartman*, Northwestern University
(1112-20-475)
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2:00 p.m.
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