SIXTEENTH SPRING MINICONFERENCE ON REAL ANALYSIS

Auburn University

Friday and Saturday, March 28-29, 2003

Sponsored by NSF

Friday Morning (s) = student participant

8:30-9:05, Coffee, fruit, doughnuts, bagels, registration, information (Parker Hall 244).

FRIDAY MORNING SESSION (Parker Hall 249):

9:10-9:25 Opening remarks (Real Analysis Slide Show CD and more mundane financial matters), Jack Brown, Auburn University.

9:30-9:55 Xin Li, U. of Central Florida, "Rademacher Theorem and Bernstein Operators".

10:00-10:25 Rachel Belinsky, Morris Brown Coll., "Optimization and Matching Law".

10:30-11:00 John Porter, Murray State U., "Helly's selection for functions of bounded

φ-variation".

11:10-12:00 Francis Jordan, Georgia Southern University

"Continuous restriction of real functions to compact sets".

12:00-1:25 Lunch (Dutch Treat).

FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSION (Parker Hall 249):

1:30-1:55 Ken Kellum, San Jose State U., "Characterizing connectivity functions with continua".

2:00-2:25 Mike Evans, Washington and Lee U., "`More or less' first-return recoverable functions".

2:30-2:55 Cliff Weil, Michigan State U., "More on Multipliers".

3:00-3:25 Udayan Darji, U. of Louisville, "Smooth images of the irrationals".

3:30-3:55 Refreshment Break (Parker Hall 244).

4:00-4:50 G. A. Edgar, Ohio State University

"Gauge integrals and fractal measures".

5:00 Participants line up for Group Picture in front of Parker Hall (weather permitting).

6:00-9:00 Picnic at Pebble Hill (Barbecue House barbecue, Texas-style pinto beans, chips, cole slaw, soft drinks, beer, and wine, contributions toward beer and wine accepted at picnic).

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Saturday Morning

(Atlanta travelers can store bags at Heart of Auburn or carry bags to Parker Hall to be stored.)

8:30-8:55 Coffee, fruit, doughnuts, and bagels (Parker Hall 244).

SATURDAY MORNING SESSION (Parker Hall 249):

9:00-9:25 Harvey Rosen, Univ. of Alabama, "Sierpinski-Zygmund uniform limits of extendable connectivity functions".

9:30-9:55 Li Feng, Albany State Univ., "Positively expansive maps on the circle".

10:00-10:25 Michael Taylor, Univ. Central Florida, "On the structure of independence for an ordered pair of random variables".

10:30-10:55 Arthur Danielyan, Univ. Central Florida, AOn a problem of polynomial approximation and density points of closed sets@.

11:00-11:50 S»awomir Solecki, University of Illinois,

"Haar null sets in non-locally compact, non-Abelian groups".

12:00-1:25 Lunch (Dutch Treat).

12:10 Atlanta travelers load bags into AU Vans at Heart of Auburn Motel (bags to be locked in room in Parker Hall).

SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSION (Parker Hall 249):

1:30-2:15 Stewart Baldwin, Auburn University,

"The Marczewski hull property and complete Boolean algebras."

2:20-2:45 Strashimir (Mirko) Popvassilev, Auburn Univ., "A proof by a fractal picture that the cross topology on the plane is not regular".

2:50-3:15 Pat Reardon, SE Oklahoma State Univ., "A dichotomy theorem for the Ellentuck topology".

3:20-4:05 Zoltan Buczolich, Eötvos Lorand U. (currently visiting Univ. N. Texas),

"Divergent square ergodic averages".

4:20 University vans carrying participants to Atlanta leaves Parker Hall. We will carry interested participants who are not exhausted to restaurant near Super 8 Motel in Atlanta for (Dutch-treat) dinner. The Super 8 phone number is (404) 768-1241, in case you need to give that information to your airline.