AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:51

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

Saturday October 12, 1991, 7:30 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
Special Session on Variational Problems in Low Dimensional Geometry, I
- 7:30 a.m.
  Foliations of Euclidean 3-space by constant mean curvature surfaces.
  Wayne F. Rossman*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (868-53-175)
- 8:10 a.m.
  Constant mean curvature hypersurfaces foliated by spheres.
  William C. Jagy*, Midwestern State University
  (868-53-79)
- 8:45 a.m.
  Minimal surfaces and the squared-mean-curvature functional.
  Nicholas Schmitt*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (868-53-89)
- 9:25 a.m.
  Construction of genus two doubly-periodic embedded minimal surfaces in R^3.
  Fusheng Wei*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (868-53-151)

Saturday October 12, 1991, 1:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
Special Session on Variational Problems in Low Dimensional Geometry, II
- 1:45 p.m.
  Complete embedded minimal surfaces of finite total curvature with three ends.
  David Hoffman*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (868-53-173)
- 2:25 p.m.
  Harmonic immersions of surfaces into hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Michael Wolf*, Rice University
  (868-58-142)
- 3:05 p.m.
  Volume minimization of Lagrangian submanifolds under Hamiltonian deformations.
  Yong-Geun Oh*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (868-53-70)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Nonuniqueness and high energy solutions for the Yamabe problem.
  Daniel Pollack*, Stanford University
  (868-35-32)

Sunday October 13, 1991, 7:30 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
Special Session on Variational Problems in Low Dimensional Geometry, III
- 7:30 a.m.
  Poincare's geodesics, soap bubbles, and constant-curvature curves.
  Frank Morgan*, Williams College
  (868-53-113)
- 8:10 a.m.
  What is (weighted) mean curvature?
  Jean Taylor*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (868-49-37)
- 8:45 a.m.
  Computing optimal geometries.
  Fred Almgren*, Princeton University
  (868-49-31)
- 9:25 a.m.
  Proving area-minimization by slicing.
  Gary R. Lawlor*, Brigham Young University
  (868-49-42)

Sunday October 13, 1991, 1:45 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
Special Session on Variational Problems in Low Dimensional Geometry, IV
- 1:45 p.m.
  Projective minimal surfaces.
  Lucas Hsu*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
  (868-58-177)
- 2:25 p.m.
  Variational properties of holomorphic Abelian differentials on Riemann surfaces.
  Lev Slutskin*, Yeshiva University
  (868-30-56)
- 3:05 p.m.
  Isoperimetric regions in some product manifolds.
  Jesus Gonzalo*, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
  (868-53-98)

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