60^th Birthday Conference
in honor of
E. D. Tymchatyn

Friday – Saturday, February 21-22, 2003

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

For more information, email ED60@math.uab.edu

Program of the Conference Local Accommodations Gala Dinner

The Department of Mathematics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will host a two-day conference, February 21-22, 2003, in honor of the 60^th birthday of Dr. E. D. Tymchatyn, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Saskatchewan. Professor Tymchatyn has made many significant contributions, and sponsored numerous post-doctoral students, in his research areas of continuum theory and general topology.

Mathematicians are hereby invited to attend the conference, and to give a 25 minute talk at the conference if they wish. Abstracts may be submitted through the Topology Atlas at http://at.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/amca/submit/caki-01.

Proceedings. It is expected that the proceedings will be refereed and published in Topology and Its Applications.

Registration and Banquet. The registration fee for the conference is $50. This includes the gala dinner banquet at the Birmingham Summit Club. (Ask about the reduced registration fee if you are not attending the banquet.). We have to ascertain the number of attendees for the banquet as closely as possible in advance. Email John Mayer for advance reservations. Please note that the Summit Club has a dress code: business casual. (For gentlemen, jacket, slacks, and collared shirt are required; no jeans nor sports shoes; tie is not required.)

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Program of the Conference
(Last Updated – 2/20/03)

Friday, February 21 (Campbell Hall, 1300 University Boulevard, 4^th floor, CH 445)

2:30 PM Conference convenes
Welcome and introduction of guests and honoree

2:45 – 3:45 PM Plenary Talk – Janusz Prajs
Selected Topics in Recent Developments in Continuum Theory

3:45 – 4:30 PM Tea – Seminar Room (CH 458)

4:30 – 5:00 PM John Johnstone
The duality between kernels and hulls

5:00 – 5:30 PM Sasha Blokh
Backward stability for polynomial maps with locally connected Julia sets

5:30 – 6:00 PM Ed Tymchatyn
Fibrewise measures and Milutin mappings

7:00 PM Gala Dinner Banquet at the Summit Club

(Advance reservations required: email John Mayer)

Saturday, February 22 (Campbell Hall, 1300 University Boulevard, 4^th floor, CH 445)

8:30 – 9:30 AM Continental breakfast – Reading Room (CH 451)

9:30 – 10:00 AM Jim Rogers
Indecomposable continua and the Julia sets of polynomials, II

10:00 – 10:30 AM Chris Mouron
Indecomposability and positive entropy homeomorphisms

10:30 – 11:00 AM Gaston Brouwer
What is the set of points in the middle?

11:00 – 11:30 AM Jamie Malaugh
Parameterization of rotational sets under z^d

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 – 1:30 PM Wlodek Kuperberg
Using a Peano curve to on-line cover the n-cube by a sequence of cubes

1:30 – 2:00 PM Krystyna Kuperberg
On expansive homeomorphisms of Peano continua

2:00 – 3:00 PM Plenary Talk – Tom Ingram
An historical view of continuum theory

3:00 – 3:30 PM Break – Reading Room (CH 451)

3:30 – 4:00 PM Murat Tuncali
On Suslinian curves

4:00 – 4:30 PM Paul Fabel
Two completions of Artin’s braid group on infinitely many strands

4:30 – 5:00 PM Piotr Minc
Combinatorial properties of paths in simplicial graphs

5:00 – 5:30 PM Lex Oversteegen
On the existence of in-channels and the plane fixed point problem

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Local Accommodations

Rooms have not been blocked, but the following hotels are close to the Mathematics Department.

Ask for the UAB visitor rate.

Best Western Medical Center

(2 blocks)

800 11^th Street South

205-933-1900

Radisson Hotel Birmingham

(6 blocks)

808 20^th Street South

205-933-9000

Pickwick Hotel and Suites

(8 blocks)

1023 2oth Street South

205-933-9555

1-800-255-7304

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