AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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1991 Eastern Section Meeting
Philadelphia, PA, October 12-13, 1991
Meeting #868

Associate secretaries:
W Wistar Comfort, AMS wcomfort@wesleyan.edu

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Special Session on Recent Progress in Ricci Curvature and Related Topics

• Saturday October 12, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Ricci Curvature and Related Topics, I
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Hyperbolic Cartan connections and the Ricci flow.
    Maung Min-oo*, McMaster University
    (868-53-132)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Nonnegative Ricci curvature and the fundamental group.
    Detlef Gromoll*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    (868-53-185)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Informal Discussion
• Saturday October 12, 1991, 1:45 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Ricci Curvature and Related Topics,II
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    Multiplier ideal sheaves and Futaki's invariant.
    Alan M. Nadel*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (868-53-46)
  • 2:25 p.m.
    On the topological growth of metric balls in a complete manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature.
    Zhongmin Shen*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (868-53-92)
  • 3:05 p.m.
    Aspects of prescribing Ricci curvature.
    Dennis DeTurck*, University of Pennsylvania
    (868-53-114)
• Sunday October 13, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Ricci Curvature and Related Topics,III
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Diffeomorphism finiteness for a certain class of Riemannian manifolds.
    Jeff Cheeger*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    (868-53-72)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Volume comparison under scaling invariant Ricci bound.
    Guojun G. Liao*, University of Texas, Arlington
    Jianzhong Su, University of Texas, Arlington
    (868-53-51)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Bounds on the fundamental group of a manifold with almost nonnegative Ricci curvature.
    Steve Rosenberg, Boston University
    Deane Yang*, Polytechnic Institute of New York
    (868-53-103)
• Sunday October 13, 1991, 1:45 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Ricci Curvature and Related Topics,IV
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    Manifolds of negatively pinched curvature.
    Rugang Ye*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (868-53-186)
  • 2:25 p.m.
    Fredholm operators and Einstein metrics on conformally compact manifolds.
    John M. Lee*, University of Washington
    (868-53-164)

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