THIRTEENTH SPRING MINICONFERENCE ON REAL ANALYSIS

 

                                                    Auburn University

 

                                      Friday and Saturday, March 5-6, 1999

 

                                                     Sponsored by NSF

 

Friday Morning                                                                         (s) = student participant

 

                             Classes are in session, so we have to be quieter than usual.

 

8:00-8:25,        Coffee, fruit, doughnuts, registration, information (Parker Hall 244).

 

FRIDAY MORNING SESSION (Parker Hall 305):

 

8:30-8:35         Opening remarks, Jack Brown, Auburn University.

 

8:35-8:55         Harry Miller, U. Tennessee Chattanooga, "Statistical convergence, almost convergence, comparisons".

 

9:00-9:20         T. H. Steel, Weber State U., "The essential point set of a continuous function".

 

9:25-9:45         Marcin Szyszkowski (s), West Virginia U., "Symmetrically continuous functions on proper subsets of R".

 

9:50-10:10       Mark McClure, U. North Carolina Asheville, "The Borel structure of the collections of sub-self-similar sets and super-self-similar sets".

 

10:15-10:35     Tomasz Natkaniec, Gdansk U., "\omega1 sequences of real functions".

 

10:40-11:00     Tamas Keleti, Michigan State U., "Dimension of Besicovitch sets in Rn".

 

 

Friday Morning Lecture (Parker Hall 305):

 

11:10-11:50    Michael Evans, Washington and Lee U.,

 

                              "Enuf's Enuf: A minimalist's appreciation

                                               of Baire 1 functions".

           

 

11:50-1:15            Lunch (Dutch Treat).

 

 

 

FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSION (Parker Hall 217):

 

1:20-1:40         Manabendra Das, U. of Louisville, "Packings and pseudo-packings".

 

1:45-2:05         Piotr Mikusinski, U. Central Florida, "On the associativity of copulas".

 

2:10-2:35         Holly Carley (s), U. Central Florida, "On constrained maxima of 2-copulas".

 

2:40-3:00         Rachel Belinskaya, Morris Brown Coll., "Integrals of Legendre Polynomials".

 

3:05-3:25         Michael D. Taylor, U. Central Florida, "Remarks on convergence of Markov operators".

 

3:30-3:50         Martin Dindos (s), U. North Carolina Chapel Hill, "On series with alternating signs.  Does typical series converge?"

 

 

 

3:55-4:15    Refreshment Break (Parker Hall 244)

 

 

 

Friday Afternoon Lecture (Parker Hall 217):

 

 

4:20-5:00                    Paul Humke, St. Olaf College

 

                              "Reducing the number of research problems

                                                      in real analysis"

 

 

 

6:00-9:00         Picnic at Pebble Hill (Barbecue sandwiches, Ben Fitzpatrick's chile con queso, Geraldo's Brazilian feijoado, beer, wine, and soft drinks, contributions toward beer and wine accepted at picnic).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday Morning

 

         Science Olympiad is today, so we may have to be louder than usual.

 

8:00-8:30         Coffee, fruit, and Ben's sausage-biscuits (Parker Hall 244).

           

SATURDAY MORNING SESSION (Parker Hall 217):

 

8:35-8:55         Zbigniew Piotrowski, Youngstown State U., "Compensating dilations with contractions (preliminary report).

 

9:00-9:20         Chris Ciesielski, West Virginia U., "What is know about extendable functions".

 

9:25-9:45         Jerzy Wojciechowski, West Virginia U., "Topological dimension and sums of connectivity functions".

 

9:50-10:10       Harvey Rosen, U. of Alabama, "Darboux functions with G\delta graphs" (joint with K. Ciesielski).

 

10:15-10:35     Ken Kellum, San Jose State U., "A characterization of the uniform limit of almost continuous functions".

 

10:40-11:00     Jan J. Dijkstra, U. Alabama, "On compacta with convex projections".

 

 

 

Saturday Morning Lecture (Parker Hall 217):

 

11:10-11:50    Udayan Darji, U. of Louisville,

 

                           "Degrees of smoothness in real functions".

           

 

11:50-1:20        Lunch (Dutch Treat).

 

 

11:55   Atlanta travelers load bags into AU Van and various cars at Heart of Auburn Motel.

 

 

1:20     Group Picture (weather permitting) in front of Parker Hall.

 

 

 

 

Saturday Afternoon Lecture (Parker Hall 217):

 

 

1:30-2:10        Marek Balcerzak, Lódz Technical University,

 

                             "Generalized Marczewski sets".

 

 

 

SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSION (Parker Hall 217):

 

2:15-2:35         Strashimir Popvassilev (s), Auburn U., "Marczewski measurable Vitali sets and Hamel bases".

 

2:40-3:10         Francis Jordan, U. of Louisville, "Sierpinski-Zygmund functions and the bounding number of the continuum".

 

3:15-3:35         Janusz Pawlikowski, Wroclaw U. (visiting West Virginia U.), "A combinatorial principle in the iterated perfect set model".

 

3:40-4:00         Jakub Jasinski, U. of Scranton, "Intersections of countably generated sigma algebras of sets".

 

 

4:10     University van plus some cars carrying participants to Atlanta leave Parker Hall.  We will carry interested participants who are not exhausted to restaurant near LaQuinta-Airport Motel in Atlanta for (Dutch-treat) dinner.  The LaQuinta phone number is (404) 768-1241, in case you need to give that information to your airline.