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1990 Southeast Section Meeting
Fayetteville, AR, March 23-24, 1990
Meeting #856

Associate secretaries:
Joseph A Cima, AMS cima@email.unc.edu

Special Session on Geometry, Physics and Nonlinear PDE's, I: Monge-Amp\'ere Equations

  • Friday March 23, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Geometry, Physics and Nonlinear PDE's, I: Monge-Amp\'ere Equations
    Room 204, Center for Continuing Education

    • 7:00 a.m.
      Darboux mappings and locally convex surfaces.
      Friedmar Schulz*, University of Iowa
      (856-35-12)
    • 7:35 a.m.
      Maximum principles and applications.
      I. Bakelman*, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
      (856-35-72)
    • 8:10 a.m.
      Generalized convex hypersurfaces.
      Erwin Lutwak*, Polytechnic University of New York
      (856-52-60)
    • 8:45 a.m.
      Worn stones -- a second look.
      Wm. J. Firey*, Oregon State University
      (856-52-45)
    • 9:20 a.m.
      The inhomogeneous extremal metric problem for closed surfaces.
      Eugenio Calabi*, University of Pennsylvania
      (856-53-68)

  • Friday March 23, 1990, 1:10 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
    Special Session on Geometry, Physics and Nonlinear PDE's, II: Mean curvature--Harmonic maps--Curvature evolution
    Room 204, Center for Continuing Education

    • 1:10 p.m.
      Surfaces of constant mean curvature of Enneper type.
      Henry C. Wente*, University of Toledo
      (856-53-76)
    • 1:45 p.m.
      A survey of some unusual harmonic maps from the 3-ball to the 2-sphere.
      Robert Hardt*, Rice University
      (856-49-67)
    • 2:20 p.m.
      A priori estimates for a class of problems from nonlinear elasticity.
      Patricia Bauman, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      Nicholas Owen, University of Bath, United Kingdom
      Daniel Phillips*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      (856-35-28)
    • 2:55 p.m.
      On the size of the blowup set for a quasilinear parabolic equation.
      Michael E. Gage*, University of Rochester
      (856-35-54)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      On the structure of complete embedded constant mean curvature surfaces in Euclidean space.
      Nicholas J. Korevaar*, University of Utah
      (856-53-57)
    • 4:05 p.m.
      Almost umbilic submanifolds.
      R. Howard*, University of South Carolina, Columbia
      (856-53-58)
    • 4:40 p.m.
      On the parabolic harmonic map equation from non-compact manifolds.
      G. Liao*, University of Texas, Arlington
      L. F. Tam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
      (856-53-78)
    • 5:15 p.m.
      Rotational mean curvature flow, quenching and blow up.
      Bernhard Kawohl*, Universit\"at Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
      (856-35-35)

  • Saturday March 24, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Geometry, Physics and Nonlinear PDE's, III: Curvature and geometry
    Room 204, Center for Continuing Education

    • 7:00 a.m.
      Null directions and curvature.
      John K. Beem*, University of Missouri, Columbia
      Phillip E. Parker, Wichita State University
      (856-53-53)
    • 7:35 a.m.
      Causal and geodesic behavior of gravitational plane waves.
      P. Ehrlich*, University of Florida
      G. Emch, University of Florida
      G. Galloway, University of Miami
      (856-53-13)
    • 8:10 a.m.
      Riemannian metrics on fiber bundles.
      Gary R. Jensen*, Washington University
      Marco Rigoli, Citta Universitaria, Italy
      (856-53-33)
    • 8:45 a.m.
      Contact Riemannian three-manifolds.
      Samuel I. Goldberg*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
      (856-53-71)
    • 9:20 a.m.
      A geometric estimate for the index of an umbilic on a smooth surface.
      Frederico Xavier*, University of Notre Dame
      (856-53-14)

  • Saturday March 24, 1990, 1:10 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Geometry, Physics and Nonlinear PDE's, IV: Eigenvalues--Scalar curvature
    Room 204, Center for Continuing Education

    • 1:10 p.m.
      The local structure of Riemannian manifolds.
      Patrick Ghanaat, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
      Maung Min-oo, McMaster University
      Ernst A. Ruh*, Ohio State University, Columbus
      (856-53-37)
    • 1:45 p.m.
      Conformal deformation equation and isospectral set of conformal metrics.
      Sun-Yung A. Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
      Paul C. Yang*, University of Southern California
      (856-53-59)
    • 2:20 p.m.
      Prescribed curvature and singularities of conformal metrics on Riemann surfaces.
      Robert C. McOwen*, Northeastern University
      (856-35-61)
    • 2:55 p.m.
      Conformal deformation of metrics to constant mean curvature.
      Jos\'e F. Escobar*, University of Chicago
      (856-53-31)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Spherical minimal immersions of spherical space forms.
      Dennis DeTurck*, University of Pennsylvania
      (856-53-77)
    • 4:05 p.m.
      The changing geometry of isospectral manifolds.
      Dennis DeTurck, University of Pennsylvania
      Herman Gluck, University of Pennsylvania
      Carolyn Gordon*, Washington University
      David Webb, Washington University
      (856-53-30)
    • 4:40 p.m.
      Domains in Riemannian manifolds and inverse spectral geometry.
      Harold Donnelly, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      Jeffrey Lee*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
      (856-53-55)
    • 5:15 p.m.
      A class of nonlinear partial differential systems with geometric applications.
      S. Walter Wei*, University of Oklahoma
      (856-53-69)
    • 5:50 p.m.
      On the index of the Costa-Hoffan-Meeks minimal surface.
      Peter Li, University of Arizona
      Luen-Fai Tam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
      Frank Stenger, University of Utah
      Andrejs E. Treibergs*, University of Utah
      (856-53-52)
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