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Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference 2008
March 13-15, 2008
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI, USA

Organizers
Ric Ancel, Karen Brucks, Craig Guilbault, Chris Hruska, Suzanne Hruska, Boris Okun (UWM); Paul Bankston (Marquette); Lois Kailhofer (Alverno College).

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This is an archive of abstracts accepted to this conference. For more listing and sorting options, see the active list.

Invited Speakers

Gerardo Acosta A review on continua with unique hyperspace
Wlodzimierz J. Charatonik Absolute retracts for some classes of continua
Alan Dow Supersequential spaces
Moon Duchin Stars at infinity in Teichmuller space
Todd Eisworth On separable monotonically normal compacta
Gary Gruenhage Monotonically compact and monotonically Lindelöf spaces
W. Patrick Hooper Some irrational polygons have many periodic billiard paths
Michael Hrusak Katetov order on Borel ideals
John Hamal Hubbard Monodromy of horseshoe Henon mappings and automorphisms of the two-shift
Jean-François Lafont Involutions of groups with exotic large-scale behavior
Piotr Minc Selected intractable problems in continuum theory, paths and inverse limits of simplicial trees
Van Nall Inverse limits with set valued functions
Pedro Ontaneda The space of negatively curved metrics
Ian Putnam Orbit equivalence for Cantor minimal systems
Evelyn Sander Period doubling cascades in high dimensional systems
Sonja Štimac Topological classification of inverse limit spaces of tent maps with non-recurrent critical orbit
Kevin Whyte Recent developments in coarse geometry
Daniel Wise Special cube complexes

Continuum Theory

Paul Bankston A tale of two mapping classes
Robbie Beane Inverse limits with permutation maps
David P. Bellamy Homogeneous suspensions are absolute suspensions
Javier Camargo Semi-openness of induced maps
Dale Daniel Hereditary separability in Hausdorff continua
Kevin Gammon A short proof of the nonhomogeneity of the pseudo-circle
Alejandro Illanes Whitney preserving mappings
Sergio Macias On the set function R
John C. Mayer Laminations of the unit disk with irrational rotation gaps
Eric McDowell Commuting self-maps of the simple triod
Christopher G. Mouron Necessary and sufficient conditions for a circle-like continuum to admit an expansive homeomorphism.
Lex Oversteegen Partitions of open and connected subsets of the sphere
Janusz R. Prajs Semi-terminal continua
Robert Roe W. T. (Tom) Ingram: 70 and still playing in trees
Jim Rogers Kuratowski's Decomposition Theorem for the common boundary of two domains
David Ryden W.T. (Tom) Ingram: 70 and still working in trees
Michel Smith When hereditary indecomposability together with the Souslin hypothesis implies metrizability
Ihor Stasyuk Extension of uniformly disconnected metrics and ultrametrics
Jennifer Stone A hereditarily indecomposable non-metric continuum that supports a Whitney map
Murat Tuncali Remarks on countable rank maps
Edward Tymchatyn A continuous extension operator for convex metrics
R. Patrick Vernon Embeddings of continua
Evan P. Wright Generalized homogeneity of dendrites

Dynamical Systems

Philip Boyland Surface dynamics lifted to Abelian covers
Henk Bruin Properties of Fibonacci-like inverse limit spaces
Greg Buzzard Structural stability of hyperbolic Henon maps
Clinton Curry Makienko's Conjecture and indecomposable continua
John Franks Global fixed points for centralizers and Morita's Theorem
William Geller Nash dynamics in two-person games
Lukas Geyer Thermodynamic formalism for Siegel disks
Judy Kennedy A Discrete 3-dimensional stirring model
Sarah Koch A new link between Teichmueller thoery and complex dynamics
Michelle LeMasurier A dynamical characterization of the Morse Minimal Set
Brian Martensen Classification of expansive attractors on surfaces
Phil Mummert Holomorphic shadowing for Henon maps
Carl Olimb Visualizing the Cech cohomology of tiling spaces
Piotr Oprocha On topologically significant chaotic sets
Lex Oversteegen A fixed point theorem for branched covering maps of the plane
Rodrigo Perez Real saddle-node bifurcation from the complex viewpoint
Brian Raines Ingram's conjecture
Roland Roeder Complex dynamics for the Lee-Yang zeros
Rebecca Sanders Common hypercyclic and supercyclic vectors
Adrian Soto Essential balanced pairs and the Rauzy Fractal
David R. Stockman Fixed points imply chaos for a class of multi-valued dynamical systems
Michael C Sullivan Solenoid attractors of diffeomorphisms of 3-manifolds

General/Set Theoretic Topology

Brad Bailey Local i-weight and i-character of paracompact LOTS
Dennis Burke Spaces with a s-wHCP base.
Nathan Carlson A new cardinality bound on homogeneous spaces via the Erdös-Rado theorem
Ben Chad Consistency results concerning two-point sets
Sheldon Davis A strong separation property
Ziqin Feng On Spaces with Finite Basic Families
Isidore Fleischer All topologies come from quasi-uniformities
William Fleissner Continuous Realcompact Images
K. P. Hart Elementar1ty and dimension
Akira Iwasa A space topologized by functions from w to w.
Alex Karassev Michael's problem and weakly infinite-dimensional spaces
Bart Kastermans No maximal cofinitary group is Ks
Gábor Lukács Locally precompact groups: Connectedness and local connectedness
David Lutzer A survey of classical completeness properties and domain-representability
Mikhail Matveev Pseudo-Menger spaces
David Milovich Diamond and ultrafilters
Justin Tatch Moore An L space with a d-separable square
Peter Nyikos Discontinuities and smooth curves in n-space
Dilip Raghavan Solution to a problem of Van Douwen
Santi Spadaro Please, be discreet .... don't judge a space from its cover by discretes!
Paul Szeptycki Normality in products with a countable factor
Andrzej Szymanski Non-b-points in Compact Hausdorff Spaces
Frank Tall More applications of PFA(S)[S]
Scott Williams Paracompact box products equals finite powers Hurewicz

Geometric Topology and Geometric Group Theory

Ethan Berkove Cohomology of automorphism groups of free products
Noel Brady Morse theory and conjugacy classes of finite subgroups
Chris Connell Asymptotic conditions for smooth rigidity
Pallavi Dani Super-exponential distortion of subgroups of CAT(-1) groups
Michael Davis The compactly supported cohomology of buildings
Alexander Dranishnikov Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of complexes with free fundamental groups
Daniel Farley On the lower algebraic K-theory of three-dimensional crystallographic groups
F. Thomas Farrell Bundles with negatively curved fibers
Steve Ferry Volume growth, De Rham cohomology, and the Higson compactification
Daniel Groves Residual finiteness and QCERF for hyperbolic groups
Dan Guralnik Bordifications of cubings
Tim Hsu Artin HNN-extensions virtually embed in Artin groups
Lizhen Ji Duality and rigidity properties of arithmetic groups, outer automorphism groups of free groups, and mapping class groups
Ian J Leary Simple platonic polygonal complexes
Chris Leininger The length spectrum of a flat structure
Michael L. Mihalik Tracking and local connectivity problems for CAT(0) groups
Christopher Mooney Cell-like maps of CAT(0) boundaries and Bestvina's Question
Mark O'Brien Actions of right-angled Coxeter groups on CAT(0) spaces
Adam Piggott Understanding when the outer automorphism group of a right-angled Coxeter group is finite
Lucas Sabalka Navigating blindly
Dirk Schuetz On the direct product conjecture for Sigma invariants
Eric Swenson p-convergence and isometric actions on Cat(0) spaces
Anne Thomas Density of commensurators for right-angled buildings
Diane Vavrichek On the quasi-isometry invariance of the Scott-Swarup JSJ decomposition for groups

Contributed Speakers

M. Y. Bakier Semi-domain representations of topological spaces
Jan Boronski An equivalence algorithm related to the animal problem of Pach
Tadeusz Dobrowolski Combinatorially essential mappings with application
Julien Doucet Charactering the set of endpoints of a certain class of chainable continua
Hanspeter Fischer Arc-smooth generalized universal covering spaces
Jose Higes Assouad-Nagata dimension of locally finite groups and asymptotic cones
Brendon LaBuz Inverse limits of uniform covering maps
Jun Luo Minimal neighbor numbers of 2D tiling
Maggie May Z-Boundary Improvement for Locally Finite Polyhedra
Justin Tatch Moore A universal Aronszajn line
Ranjith Munasinghe Continuous Functions on Inverse Limits
Strashimir G. Popvassilev Difference sets of plane continua
Dr.M Lellis Thivagar Quotient Mappings associated with g  sets


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