Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 14, 2012 00:29:09

Joint Mathematics Meetings
John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston Marriott Hotel, and Boston Sheraton Hotel, Boston, MA
January 4-7, 2012 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1077

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

• Wednesday January 4, 2012, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry in Pure and Applied Mathematics (in memory of Benoit Mandelbrot), I
  Room 204, Hynes
  Organizers:
  Michael L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
  Erin Pearse, University of Oklahoma ep@ou.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley University
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Fractal structures in functions related to number theory.
    Jeffrey C . Lagarias*, University of Michigan
    (1077-11-1469)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Complex Dimensions of Cantor Strings and the Riemann Zeros.
    Machiel van Frankenhuijsen*, Utah Valley University
    (1077-11-2341)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Explicit tube formulas for $p$-adic fractal strings.
    Hung Lu*, Hawaii Pacific University
    Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley University
    (1077-51-1503)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Multifractal spectra of certain self-similar measures as abscissa of convergence functions.
    Kate E. Ellis, California State University, Stanislaus
    Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    Michael C. Mackenzie, University of Connecticut
    John A. Rock*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    (1077-28-1181)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Fractal Strings and the Invertibility of the Spectral Operator.
    Hafedh Herichi*, University of California, Riverside
    Michel. L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    (1077-46-1805)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Fractal Strings, the Riemann Hypothesis, Universality and Phase Transitions.
    Hafedh Herichi, University of California, Riverside
    Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California, Riverside
    (1077-11-1609)
• Thursday January 5, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry in Pure and Applied Mathematics (in memory of Benoit Mandelbrot), II
  Room 200, Hynes
  Organizers:
  Michael L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
  Erin Pearse, University of Oklahoma ep@ou.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The algebraic geometry of Harper operators.
    Dan Li*, Florida State University
    (1077-70-1960)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Extreme risk and fractal regularity in finance.
    Laurent E Calvet*, Department of Finance, HEC Paris
    (1077-91-2303)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Weierstrass function and Fractional Brownian motion.
    Murad S. Taqqu*, Boston University
    (1077-60-898)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Magic fractal distribution trees in living systems: 1-Implication for evolution theory 2-Role of randomness.
    Bernard Sapoval*, Physique de la Matière Condensée,Ecole Polytechnique-CNRS
    (1077-92-1494)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The landscape of Anderson localization in a disordered medium.
    Marcel Filoche*, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS
    Svitlana Mayboroda, University of Minnesota
    (1077-35-2011)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Fractal Antennas, Resonators, and Invisibility Cloaks: Nuggets from the Tortuous Path.
    Nathan Cohen*, Fractal Antenna Systems,Inc.
    (1077-94-2760)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Fractal geometry: a pathway to understanding biodiversity.
    Mark E Ritchie*, Syracuse University
    (1077-92-2516)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Physical Analogues of Peano Curves: from genome folding to new symmetries.
    Adrian Sanborn, Harvard University
    Jian Li, Harvard University
    Erez Lieberman Aiden*, Harvard Society of Fellows
    (1077-92-2339)
• Friday January 6, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry in Pure and Applied Mathematics (in memory of Benoit Mandelbrot), III
  Room 200, Hynes
  Organizers:
  Michael L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
  Erin Pearse, University of Oklahoma ep@ou.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Packing dimension of images of additive Lévy processes.
    Liang Zhang*, University of Utah
    (1077-60-1001)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Correlation-length bounds, and estimates for intermittent islands in parabolic SPDEs.
    Davar Khoshnevisan*, University of Utah
    (1077-60-1461)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multifractal analysis of Lévy fields.
    Arnaud Durand*, Univ. Paris-Sud
    Stephane Jaffard, Univ. Paris-Est
    (1077-60-1304)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fractal properties of the Schramm-Loewner evolution.
    Gregory F Lawler*, University of Chicago
    (1077-60-609)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On-diagonal oscillation of the heat kernels on p.c.f. self-similar fractals.
    Naotaka Kajino*, University of Bielefeld
    (1077-60-952)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set.
    Robert L. Devaney*, Boston University
    (1077-37-1601)
• Saturday January 7, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry in Pure and Applied Mathematics (in memory of Benoit Mandelbrot), IV
  Room 200, Hynes
  Organizers:
  Michael L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
  Erin Pearse, University of Oklahoma ep@ou.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Intersection property of fractals via Schmidt games.
    Ryan Broderick, Brandeis University
    Lior Fishman, Brandeis University
    Dmitry Kleinbock*, Brandeis University
    Asaf Reich, Brandeis University
    Barak Weiss, Ben Gurion University
    (1077-11-1050)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hitting Probabilities and Packing Dimensions of the Random Covering Sets.
    Bing Li, South China University of Technology
    Narn-Rueih Shieh, National Taiwan University
    Yimin Xiao*, Michigan State University
    (1077-60-1556)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lipschitz Equivalence of Cantor Sets.
    Yang Wang*, Michigan State University
    (1077-26-2606)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Exponential spectra in $L^2(\mu)$.
    Xing-Gang He, Central China Normal University
    Chun-Kit Lai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Ka-Sing Lau*, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    (1077-46-1750)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fractals and hyperbolicity.
    Vadim Kaimanovich*, University of Ottawa
    (1077-37-2630)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Self-similar fractals as boundaries of networks.
    Erin P.J. Pearse*, University of Oklahoma
    (1077-60-2960)
• Saturday January 7, 2012, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry in Pure and Applied Mathematics (in memory of Benoit Mandelbrot), V
  Room 200, Hynes
  Organizers:
  Michael L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
  Erin Pearse, University of Oklahoma ep@ou.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Derivatives on Fractals.
    Alexander Teplyaev*, University of Connecticut
    (1077-58-2822)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Vector equations on fractals.
    Michael Hinz*, University of Connecticut and FSU Jena
    Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut
    (1077-35-1885)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Factorization of the spectral zeta function of differential operators on fractals.
    Nishu Lal*, University of California, Riverside
    Michel Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    (1077-28-2420)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Casimir effect on higher dimensional Laakso spaces.
    Robert Kesler, Cornell University
    Benjamin Steinhurst*, Cornell University
    (1077-81-1963)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Buried Points in Rational Julia Sets Have Full Geometric and Dynamical Measure.
    Clinton P Curry, Huntingdon College
    John C Mayer*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    E. D. Tymchatyn, University of Saskatchewan
    (1077-37-2675)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Statistical mechanics and quantum field theory on fractal structures.
    Eric Akkermans*, Physics Department, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
    (1077-81-785)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Number Theoretic Solutions to a Certain Nonlinear Cauchy Problem with Optimized Constraints.
    Michael Anthony Maroun*, University of California, Riverside
    (1077-33-2768)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Spectral zeta function and quantum statistical mechanics on Sierpinski carpets.
    Joe P Chen*, Cornell University
    (1077-82-708)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Properties of compatible sequences of periodic orbits of prefractal approximations of the Koch snowflake fractal billiard.
    Robert G. Niemeyer*, University of California, Riverside
    Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    (1077-37-1115)