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The Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference 2009
March 7-9, 2009
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, USA

Organizers
Lou Block, Phil Boyland (chair), Beverly Brechner, Sasha Dranishnikov, and Jed Keesling.

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Abstracts

Continuum Theory

Paul Bankston When semimonotone implies monotone
Lidiya Bazylevych Orbit spaces of the hyperspace of rotors
David P. Bellamy Hagopian Spheres
Mauricio Esteban Chacon-Tirado Large Ordered Arcs
Alexander Cornelius Inverse Limits with Set-Valued Functions
PJ Couch A Computable Hahn-Mazurkiewicz Theorem
Clinton Curry Locally Connected Models for Julia Sets of Polynomials
D. Daniel Strongly Irreducible Images of Arcs
Paul Fabel Homotopic maps between planar Peano continua are determined by the fundamental group homomorphism
Kevin Gammon A short proof of non-homogeneity of pseudo-solenoids
Logan Hoehn Span, surjective span, and chainability
W. T. Ingram Inverse limits with upper semi-continuous bonding functions
Alex Karassev Finite-to-one maps into manifolds and spaces with disjoint disks properties
C.T. Kennaugh Atriodic n-od-like continua
Krystyna Kuperberg In memory of Bill Transue
Sergio Macias Decomposition theorems using Professor Jones' set function T
Veronica Martinez-de-la-Vega y Mansilla Embeddings of Symmetric Products and Hyperspaces of Subcontinua
Hugo Villanueva Méndez Embedding Cones in Hyperspaces
Van Nall Inverse Limits with Set Valued Function
Lex Oversteegen The Fatou inequality and wandering continua
Elzbieta Pol On hereditarily indecomposable compacta
Jim Rogers Homogeneous Continua: Where do we stand, and where do we go?
David Ryden Composant Structure in Indecomposable Inverse Limits of Unimodal Maps
Michel Smith Separable continua whose hyperspace of subcontinua is not separable.
Ihor Stasyuk Uniformly continuous selections for multi-valued maps.
Scott Varagona Inverse Limits with u.s.c. Bonding Functions and Indecomposable Continua
Patrick Vernon Indecomposability, Composants, and n-indecomposability in the Plane

Dynamical Systems

Stewart Baldwin Inverse limits of "unimodal" tree maps
Andy Barwell Symbolic dynamics and omega-limit sets of piecewise monotone maps
Jan P. Boroński A linear lower bound for the number of fixed points of orientation-reversing planar homeomorphisms.
Henk Bruin Monotonicity of entropy for multimodal polynomials
Alex Clark Embedding solenoids in foliations
Ethan M. Coven Every odometer is a cellular automaton
Udayan B. Darji Persistence of odometers in generic topological dynamics
William Geller Parametrized Nash dynamics in two-person games
Jeffrey Houghton Thurston Laminations which are invariant under the Map s3:S1→ S1
Leslie B. Jones Kneading Sequences of Strange Adding Machines
Judy Kennedy Simple discrete 3D stirring models
Brian Martensen Relations between proximality, mixing and Pisot expansion factors for tiling spaces
John C. Mayer Results and Questions on Buried Points of Julia Sets
Piotr Minc In memory of Bill Transue
Piotr Oprocha Weak mixing and product recurrence
Rodrigo Perez Occilating behavior in the repressilator equations
Francisco R. Ruiz del Portal Attractors with vanishing rotation number
Ian F. Putnam A homology theory for basic sets
Brian Raines Inverse Limit Isotopies
Ana Rodrigues Kneading sequences for double standard maps
Lorenzo Sadun Cohomology of the pinwheel tiling
Evelyn Sander Period-doubling cascades galore
Sonja Štimac On Ingram's Conjecture
Christian Wolf Regularity of topological pressure: From one to two dimensional complex dynamics
Andy Yingst Homeomorphic Bernoulli trial measures in three symbols

Ergodic Theory and Set Theoretic Complexity

Simon Thomas Martin's Conjecture and Strong Ergodicity
Todor Tsankov Equivalence relations generated by profinite actions of countable groups

General/Set Theoretic Topology

Leandro F. Aurichi D-spaces and covering properties
Liljana Babinkostova Game dimension for separable metric spaces
Dennis K. Burke More on Separation of a Diagonal
Nathan Carlson On open ultrafilters and maximal points
Szymon Dolecki Successive topologizations and regularizations
Alan Dow T.rees B.oolean A.lgebras
Chris Good Homeomorphisms of Two-Point Sets
Gary Gruenhage Monotonically compact Hausdorff spaces are metrizable
K. P. Hart A concrete co-existential map that is not confluent
Akira Iwasa On metrizability of trees
Paul Larson There may be just continuum many universally measurable sets
David Lutzer Strong completeness properties in Cp(X)
Iván Martínez-Ruiz Spaces determined by selections
Daniel McNeill Cardinality bounds of H-sets in Urysohn spaces
David Milovich Two spectra of Noetherian types
Abdul Adheem Mohamad Generalized Quasi Metric Spaces
Justin Moore Fast growth in Følner sets for Thompson's group F
Frederic Mynard When is the Isbell topology a group topology?
Jila Niknejad Coarser normal product and countably paracompactness
Peter Nyikos D-spaces, trees, and a ZFC solution to Problem 342 in OPIT II
Strashimir G. Popvassilev w1+1 is not monotonically countably compact
Robert Raphael Lindelof spaces which have the Countable Neighbourhood Proprerty
Pavel Semenov On a contractivity condition in fixed point theory and theory of selections
Santi Spadaro On depth, breadth and cardinality
Juris Steprans Strengthening separable, maximal almost disjoint families
Paul Szeptycki An HFD group in the Solovay model
Franklin D. Tall Lindelof spaces which are indestructible, productive, or D
Kirsten Valkenburg Nonseparable complete Erdös spaces and submeasures on uncountable cardinals
Lynne Yengulalp Non-normality points
Michael Zarichnyi Open mapping theorem for idempotent measures

Geometric Group Theory

Peter Abramenko Finiteness properties of groups acting on twin buildings
Jason Behrstock Centroids and the Rapid Decay Property in mapping class groups
Gregory Bell On asymptotic dimension of a free product
Kai-Uwe Bux Finiteness Properties of S-Arithmetic Groups of Global Rank One
Matt Clay Twisting out fully irreducible automorphisms
Tomasz Elsner Minimal surfaces for simplicial nonpositive curvature
Swiatoslaw R. Gal Distorsion in the group of hamiltonomorphisms
Thanos Gentimis On limit aperiodic G-sets
Jose Higes Assuad-Nagata dimension of nilpotent groups with arbitrary left invariant metrics
Christopher Leininger Compactifying the space of flat structures.
Dan Margalit Two-generator subgroups of the pure braid group
Jon McCammond Small type Coxeter groups acting on hyperbolic space
Michael Mihalik JSJ-Decompositions of Coxeter Groups over Virtually Abelian Splittings
Christopher Mooney Examples of cell-like maps between boundaries of CAT(0) a group.
Boris Okun Weighted L2-cohomology of graph products
Alexandra Pettet Small filling sets of curves on a surface
Timothy Schroeder Geometrization of 3-dimensional Coxeter orbifolds
Anne Thomas Higher divergence functions
Ziga Virk Realizations of countable groups as fundamental groups of compacta
Karen Vogtmann Translation numbers for automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups
Kevin Wortman Dehn functions of linear groups
Xiangdong Xie Quasiisometries between negatively curved Hadamard manifolds

Geometric Topology

Scott Baldridge Cube knots and knot Floer homology from cube diagrams
Jason Behrstock Quasi-isometric classification of graph manifolds
Hans U. Boden Metabelian SL(n, C) representations of knot groups
Nikolay Brodskiy Assouad-Nagata dimension of tree-graded spaces
Vladimir Chernov Legendrian links, causality, and the Low conjecture
Jerzy Dydak A combinatorial approach to coarse geometry
David Futer The geometry of unknotting tunnels
Denise Halverson Busemann G-spaces, G-Homogeneity, and Homogeneous Metric Spheres
Chris Herald Metabelian representations, twisted Alexander polynomials, knot slicing, and mutation
Dubravko Ivanšić Identifying simply-connected 4-manifolds that contain tori and Klein bottles whose complements are hyperbolic 4-manifolds
Brendon LaBuz [X\tilde] as a universal generalized uniform covering space for X
Álvaro Martínez-Pérez Quasi-isometries between visual hyperbolic spaces
Atish Mitra On Asymptotic Dimension and a Property of Nagata
Kate Petersen Character Varieties of a Family of Two-Bridge Knots
Strashimir G. Popvassilev On the number of inscribed squares
Rustam Sadykov Stable characteristic classes of manifold bundles
Nikita Shekutkovski Intrinsic definition of strong shape for compact metric spaces
Vera Tonic Bockstein basis and resolution theorems in extension theory
Vesko Valov Mazurkiewicz manifolds and homogeneity
Violeta Vasilevska Homology n-Spheres as Codimension-(n+1) Shape msimpl-Fibrators

Invited Speakers

Mladen Bestvina Asymptotic dimension and mapping class groups
Octav Cornea Topology of Lagrangian submanifolds, elements of number theory and free loops.
Albert Fathi On Time Functions for Cone Structures
Steve Ferry Drawing pictures at infinity in CAT(0) boundaries
Ross Geoghegan Subgroups of Thompson's Group F
John Hunton Functorial approaches to aperiodic tilings
Tadeusz Januszkiewicz Boundaries of systolic spaces.
Michael Kapovich Affine buildings of rank 2
Krystyna Kuperberg Volume preserving flows
Michael Levin Extensions of maps to Moore spaces
R. Daniel Mauldin Reflections on Stan Ulam: The person and his mathematical problems I
Michal Misiurewicz Omega-limit sets for the Stein-Ulam Spiral map
Christopher G. Mouron Classification of continua that admit expansive homeomorphisms
Vladimir Pestov Approximations of (topological) groups with finite or compact groups
Adam Piggott The automorphism group of the free group of rank two is a CAT(0) group
Janusz R Prajs Terminal and Semi-terminal Continua in Homogeneous Spaces
Sławomir Solecki Concentration of measure, Ramsey theory, geometric tomography, and dynamics of L0
Vladimir Uspenskiy Around Glasner's problem

Contributed Talks

Peyman Eslami On Eventually Expanding Maps of The Unit Interval
Sabir Hussain On Minimal g-open Sets
Kenneth R Kellum Functions which separate X ×ℜ
David Meza-Alcantara The comparison game on Borel ideals
Brandon Seward The isomorphism of free minimal subflows of 2G is a nonsmooth Borel equivalence relation.
Casey Sherman A Lebesgue-Like Measure for Inverse Limit Spaces


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