SYMBOLIC DYNAMICS WORKSHOP 
			    College Park 1995  
 

Thursday	9:00  
March 9		Coffee and bagels 

		9:30          		Room 0110, Armory building
		Doris Fiebig  
		(University of Heidelberg) 
		The automorphism group for a coded system  
		
		11:00 
		Bruce Kitchens 		Math. Colloq. Room 
		(IBM Watson Research & Wesleyan University)  
       		Invariant measures on the three dot dynamical system
		
		1:15
		Susan Williams  	Math. Colloq. Room
		(University of South Alabama) 
		Ordered homology and cohomology of shifts of finite type

		2:15
		John Kulesza  		Math. Colloq. Room 
		(George Mason University) 
		Minimal fibers for zero-dimensional covers of an 
		n-dimensional dynamical system
		
		4:00 		 	Room 0407, Math building 
		Alejandro Maass  
		(University of Chile ) 
		Positively expansive endomorphisms of mixing Markov shifts 
		

Friday 		MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM 
March 10 	3:00 
 		Joe Rosenblatt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  
		Convergence theorems in ergodic theory 

		ERGODIC PARTY 
		7:30 -
		Chez Boyle 


 
		  	DYNAMICS CONFERENCE 1995  

Saturday	 
March 11	
		9:30 
		Anatoly Katok  		(Pennsylvania State University)   
		Slow entropy and obstructions to smooth and symbolic
		realization of measure-preserving actions of amenable groups 

		11:00
		Ulf Fiebig  		(University of Heidelberg) 
		Entropy and finite generators for locally compact subshifts
		
		1:30		
		Brian Hunt  		(Maryland)  
 		Bifurcation diagrams and stability of periodic points 
		in higher dimensions

		2:30
		Howie Weiss  		(Pennsylvania State University)  
                Multifractal spectrum for an expanding map and for a
                Moran process with an arbitrary Gibbs measure
		
		4:00-4:25	
		Luis Barreira  		(Pennsylvania State University)
		A non-additive thermodynamic formalism and applications
		to the dimension theory of hyperbolic dynamics

		4:30-4:55
		Dmitry Dolgopiat 	(Princeton University) 
		On orbits with a thin limit set for Anosov systems

		7-10:30  
		Ergodic Party, Chez Rudolph    

Sunday 		9:30 
March 12	J.R.Dorfman  		(Maryland) 
		Lyapunov exponents and diffusion coefficients 
 		for determiniistic systems 

		11:00
		Lyonia Bunimovich 	(Georgia Tech)  
		Transport coefficients from the microscopic dynamics:
		ergodic theory and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics

		1:30 
		Paul Shields  		(University of Toledo)  
		How many measures on the future are there? 
		
		2:30 
		Donna Molinek  		(Davidson College) 
		Asymptotic Measures for Certain Skew Products

		4:00-4:25 
		Frank Blume  	(Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 
		A universal lower bound for entropy convergence rates 

		4:30-4:55 
		Miaohua Jiang  		(Pennsylvania State University)
		Ergodic Properties of Coupled Map Lattices
		of Hyperbolic Type
			

Monday 		9:30 
March 13	Bernard Host  	(Universite' d'Aix-Marseille II & 
			         Laboratoire de Mathematiques Discretes)
		A variation on the variational principle

		11:00 
		Mate Wierdl  		(Northwestern University) 
		Hardy fields and the pointwise ergodic theorem along
		subsequences

		1:45 
		Karin Reinhold-Larson  	(SUNY Albany)
		A type of ergodic average for measurable flows

       		3:00    
		Math Department Student-Faculty Colloquium 
		Dave Witte  		(Williams College)
                Superrigidity: a theorem in group theory 

		4:15
		Randall McCutcheon 	(Ohio State University) 
		A Polynomial IP-Szemeredi Theorem for Finite Families 
		of Commuting Operators

Tuesday 	9:30
March 14	Hillel Furstenberg  	(Hebrew University)  
                Affine transition operators and some problems on fractal 
                dimension
	
		10:45
		Janet Kammeyer 		(Naval Academy)  
		Restricted Orbit Equivalence 
		for Actions of Discrete Amenable Groups
		 
		12:00
		Jack Feldman  		(U.C. Berkeley)
		Decreasing sequences of sigma-fields in a probability space