1996 PROGRAM SYMBOLIC DYNAMICS WORKSHOP -------------------------- Thursday March 28 9:00 SUSAN WILLIAMS, University of South Alabama Dynamic group presentations and shifts of finite type 10:00 PAUL TROW, The University of Memphis Decompositions of factor maps 11:00 FRED ROUSH, Alabama State University Producing free Zp actions on subshifts of finite type 2:00 DORIS FIEBIG, University of Heidelberg Presynchronized systems 3:00 MARYSIA TARNOPOLSKA-WEISS, Hofstra University Tensor Products of Shift Spaces 3:30 Break 3:45 SYLVIA SILBERGER, Wesleyan University Subshifts of the 3 Dot System 4:15 NATASHA JONOSKA, University of South Florida Multiplicity of a sofic shift and the group structure of its syntactic semigroup Friday March 29 9:00 ULF FIEBIG, University of Heidelberg Locally compact subshifts 10:00 SHMUEL FRIEDLAND, University of Illinois at Chicago Limit sets of free groups, Hausdorff dimension and subshifts of finite type 11:00 ANATOLY VERSHIK, Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Arithmetic coding of hyperbolic dynamical systems MATH DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM -------------------------- 3:00 CHRIS SKAU, University of Trondheim Ordered K-theory and its significance for dynamical systems 7:30 PARTY (Chez Boyle) (participants in both workshops are welcome) DYNAMICS AND RELATED TOPICS WORKSHOP (Saturday-Tuesday) ------------------------------------ Saturday 8:30 Coffee, bagels, registration (no fee) 9:30 IAN PUTNAM, University of Victoria Applications of C*-algebras and K-theory in Topological Dynamics I (first of three lectures) 11:00 THIERRY GIORDANO, University of Ottawa Full groups and orbit equivalence for minimal Cantor systems 1:45 DAN RUDOLPH (University of Maryland) and JANET KAMMEYER (Naval Academy) Restricted orbit equivalence for actions of discrete amenable groups I (first of three lectures) 3:00 CHARLES RADIN, University of Texas at Austin Adding geometry to subshifts 4:00 ROBBIE ROBINSON, George Washington University Smooth models for tiling systems 5:00 Reception (with M.E.R.) in Math Rotunda Sunday 9:30 IAN PUTNAM Applications of C*-algebras and K-theory in Topological Dynamics II 11:00 DAN RUDOPH/JANET KAMMEYER Restricted orbit equivalence for actions of discrete amenable groups II 1:45 ROBERTO HASFURA, Trinity College Mixing and Completely Positive Entropy in Vershik Equivalence Classes 2:45 DEB HEICKLEN, University of Maryland Vershik's entropy criterion is sharp 4:00 DENIS KOSYGIN, Princeton University On construction of ergodic twist maps 4:30 DMITRI DOLGOPYAT, Princeton University Correlation decay in Anosov flows Monday 9:30 IAN PUTNAM Applications of C*-algebras and K-theory in Topological Dynamics III 11:00 ANATOLY VERSHIK Statistical physics approach to asymptotic combinatorics 2:00 DAN RUDOLPH/JANET KAMMEYER Restricted orbit equivalence for actions of discrete amenable groups III 3:00 STUDENT-FACULTY COLLOQUIUM V.S. PRASAD, University of Massachusetts Lowell Multiple Rokhlin Towers 4:15 BERNARD HOST, Institut de Mathematiques de Luminy, Marseille Stationary Bratteli diagrams and substitution dynamical systems Tuesday 9:00 ANDRES DEL JUNCO, University of Toronto On vectors with orthogonal iterates under a unitary operator 10:15 STANLEY EIGEN, Northeastern University Nonexact shift endomorphisms 11:15 KYEWON PARK, Ajou University On directional entropies