AMS International Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:59

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Thursday May 20, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Geodesics, I
Organizers:
Phillip E. Parker, Wichita State University pparker@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
Lilia Del Riego, Univ Auto de San Luis Potosi lilia@biblos.dgb.uaslp.mx
- 8:30 a.m.
  Null generators of Cauchy horizons.
  John K Beem*, University of Missouri-Columbia
  Andrzej Kr\'olak, Polish Academy of Sciences
  (944-53-15)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 9:30 a.m.
  Particle Geodesics and Spectra in the Spacetime Tangent Bundle.
  Howard E. Brandt*, Army Research Laboratory
  (944-53-33)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Causality-generated topology for future boundaries of spacetimes.
  Steven G. Harris*, Saint Louis University
  (944-53-267)

Thursday May 20, 1999, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Geodesics, II
Organizers:
Phillip E. Parker, Wichita State University pparker@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
Lilia Del Riego, Univ Auto de San Luis Potosi lilia@biblos.dgb.uaslp.mx
- 2:00 p.m.
  Volume Comparison on Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds.
  Paul E Ehrlich*, University of Florida
  (944-53-24)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Note on the pseudo-Riemnnian Osserman problem.
  Maria E. Vazquez-Abal*, Univ. Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
  Eduardo Garcia-Rio, Univ. Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
  Demir N. Kupeli, Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
  Ramon Vazquez-Lorenzo, Univ. Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
  (944-53-92)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Geodesic completeness for semiRiemannian transverse structures on foliations.
  Alberto Candel, California Institute of Technology
  Raul Quiroga*, CINVESTAV-IPN
  (944-53-163)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Functional Geodesics and Gravitational Fields.
  Hernando Quevedo*, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares UNAM
  (944-83-413)

Friday May 21, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Geodesics, III
Organizers:
Phillip E. Parker, Wichita State University pparker@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
Lilia Del Riego, Univ Auto de San Luis Potosi lilia@biblos.dgb.uaslp.mx
- 8:30 a.m.
  Geometry of Hyperbolic Operators.
  Adam D. Helfer*, University of Missouri-Columbia
  (944-53-415)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Curvature of the Levi-Civita connection on the canonical bundle of a hermitian manifold.
  Gil Bor, CIMAT
  Luis Hernandez-Lamoneda*, CIMAT
  (944-53-28)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Aspects of Kaehler Cone Metrics.
  Thalia D. Jeffres*, Instituto de Fisica y Matematicas, UMSNH
  Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
  (944-53-213)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The moduli space of metrics of positive scalar curvature of some even dimensional manifolds.
  Egidio Barrera-Yanez*, CINVESTAV
  (944-53-19)

Friday May 21, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Geodesics, IV
Organizers:
Phillip E. Parker, Wichita State University pparker@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
Lilia Del Riego, Univ Auto de San Luis Potosi lilia@biblos.dgb.uaslp.mx
- 2:30 p.m.
  Geodesic Flows on the Oscillator Group.
  Shirley T Bromberg*, UAM-I (Mexico)
  Alberto Medina, UAM-I(Mexico), Umontp2 (France)
  (944-83-223)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A generalized exponential map and Jacobi field for a non-linear connection.
  Lilia Del Riego*, Univ. Aut. San Luis Potosi
  Phillip E. Parker, Wichita State University
  (944-53-105)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A Finslerian Poincare disc.
  David Bao*, University of Houston
  (944-53-209)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On regular values for maps between graded domains.
  Fausto Ongay*, Centro de Investigaci\'on en Matem\'aticas
  (944-53-211)

Saturday May 22, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Geodesics, V
Organizers:
Phillip E. Parker, Wichita State University pparker@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
Lilia Del Riego, Univ Auto de San Luis Potosi lilia@biblos.dgb.uaslp.mx
- 10:00 a.m.
  Geometry of 2-step nilpotent Lie groups.
  Patrick B Eberlein*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (944-53-98)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 11:00 a.m.
  Isometry groups of 2-step nilspaces.
  Phillip E. Parker*, Wichita State Univ.
  Luis A. Cordero, Universidade de Santiago
  (944-53-402)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Poisson Homogeneous Spaces of a Poisson-Lie Group.
  Alberto Medina*, UAM-I(Mexico), UMont2 (France)
  (944-53-222)

Saturday May 22, 1999, 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Geodesics, VI
Organizers:
Phillip E. Parker, Wichita State University pparker@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
Lilia Del Riego, Univ Auto de San Luis Potosi lilia@biblos.dgb.uaslp.mx
- 1:30 p.m.
  Informal discussions.

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