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International Joint Mathematics Meeting
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, August 15-19, 1993
Meeting #883

Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu
Kenneth A Ross, MAA ross@math.uoregon.edu

AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics

  • Wednesday August 18, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
    AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, I

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Symmetric steady motions in continuum models.
      Debra Lewis*, University of California Santa Cruz
      (883-70-315)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Involutive structures on compact manifolds.
      Howard Jacobowitz*, Rutgers University, Camden
      (883-58-253)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Prescribing curvatures.
      Dennis DeTurck*, University of Pennsylvania
      (883-53-316)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Dynamic feedback linearization for classical geometries.
      William Shadwick, The Fields Institute
      Willem Sluis*, The Fields Institute
      (883-93-167)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Compatible metrics and polyakov strings.
      Phillip E. Parker*, Wichita State University
      (883-53-237)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      A pseudo-Riemannian Morse index theorem.
      Adam Helfer*, University of Missouri, Columbia
      (883-53-66)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      From the Riccati inequality to the Raychaudhuri equation.
      Paul Ehrlich*, University of Florida
      Seon Bu Kim, Chonnam National University, South Korea
      (883-53-19)
  • Thursday August 19, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
    AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, II

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Least area tori, 3-manifolds of nonnegative scalar curvature and the topology of black holes.
      Mingliang Cai, University of Miami
      Gregory J. Galloway*, University of Miami
      (883-53-207)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      The internal geometry of black holes.
      W. Israel*, University of Alberta
      (883-83-67)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Stability of geodesic incompleteness.
      John K. Beem*, University of Missouri, Columbia
      (883-53-49)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Einstein-Yang-Mills equations with symmetries.
      H. P. Kunzle*, University of Alberta
      (883-83-151)
  • Thursday August 19, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
    AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, III

    • 2:30 p.m.
      The method of timelike 2-surfaces.
      Steven G. Harris*, Saint Louis University
      (883-53-150)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Isotropic singularities and the Weyl curvature hypothesis.
      Susan M. Scott*, Australian National University, Australia
      (883-83-295)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Spacetime geometry of cr-structures.
      K. L. Duggal*, University of Windsor
      Aurel Bejancu, Polytechnic Institute of Iasi, Romania
      (883-53-235)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      The Einstein constraint equations on manifolds admitting a U(1) action.
      James Isenberg*, University of Oregon
      Vincent Moncrief, Yale University
      (883-83-270)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Ricci curvature inheriting symmetry of semi-Riemannian spaces.
      Ramesh Sharma*, University of New Haven
      Krishan L. Duggal, University of Windsor
      (883-53-236)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Numerical simulations of unpolarized Gowdy spacetimes.
      David Garfinkle*, Oakland University
      (883-83-191)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      On completeness of orbits of killing vector fields.
      Piotr T. Chru\'sciel*, University of California, Santa Barbara
      (883-53-57)
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