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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 Symplectic Geometry

  • Sunday August 15, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
    AMS Special Session on Symplectic Geometry, I

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Hamiltonian control system on bundles.
      P. S. Krishnaprasad*, University of Maryland, College Park
      (883-93-196)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Global geometry of the Euler top.
      Richard H. Cushman*, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
      (883-58-23)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Reduction and reconstruction of symmetries.
      Jedrzej Sniatycki*, University of Calgary
      (883-70-45)
    • 4:50 p.m.
      On symplectic submanifolds of cotangent bundles.
      Mark J. Gotay*, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
      (883-53-168)
    • 5:20 p.m.
      Principal affine varieties and imploded cross-sections.
      Reyer Sjamaar*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      (883-58-293)

  • Monday August 16, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
    AMS Special Session on Symplectic Geometry, II

    • 2:30 p.m.
      A few remarks on Poisson cohomology.
      Viktor L. Ginzburg*, Stanford University
      (883-53-263)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Equivariant Mp^c prequantization.
      Paul Robinson*, University of Florida
      (883-58-68)
    • 4:15 p.m.
      Singular reduction for nonzero values of momentum.
      Judith M. Arms*, University of Washington
      (883-58-169)
    • 4:40 p.m.
      Hopf algebra cocycles and Poisson structures on Lie groups.
      Jiang-Hua Lu*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      (883-58-323)

  • Thursday August 19, 1993, 2:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
    AMS Special Session on Symplectic Geometry, III

    • 2:10 p.m.
      On the Witten invariant of mapping cylinders.
      Jorgen Ellegaard Andersen*, University of California, Berkeley
      (883-53-301)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Contact geometry and complex surfaces.
      Hansj\"org Geiges*, Stanford University
      Jes\'us Gonzalo, University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
      (883-53-188)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Lie bialgebroids and Poisson groupoids.
      Kirill Mackenzie, University of Sheffield, England
      Ping Xu*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
      (883-58-59)
    • 4:20 p.m.
      Symplectic sphere packing constructions.
      Lisa Traynor*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
      (883-53-54)
    • 4:50 p.m.
      Maselov index of holomorphic discs with Lagrangian boundary conditions on Kahler manifolds.
      Yong-Geun Oh*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
      (883-53-43)
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