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1992 Fall Western Section Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, November 7-8, 1992
Meeting #877

Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu

Special Session on Spectral Geometry

  • Saturday November 7, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Spectral Geometry, I

    Room 140, Kaprielian Hall

    • 3:00 p.m.
      Estimates for conformally invariant equations.
      Sun-Yung Alice Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
      Paul Yang*, University of Southern California
      (877-53-105)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      The nu-ainvariant of Seifert-fibred geometric 3-manifolds.
      Mingqing Ouyang*, Ohio State University, Columbus
      (877-58-28)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      The convex core and the Laplacian for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
      Richard D. Canary*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
      (877-58-87)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Eta invariants for manifolds with boundary.
      Xianzhe Dai*, University of California, Los Angeles
      (877-58-88)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Convergence of geometric terms in the Selberg trace formula on degenerating surfaces of finite volume.
      Rolf Lundelius*, University of Kentucky
      (877-35-107)
  • Sunday November 8, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Spectral Geometry, II

    Room 140, Kaprielian Hall

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Spectral theory of the Laplacian in domains with corners.
      Gregory Eskin*, University of California, Los Angeles
      (877-58-86)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Analytic torsion and Witten complex.
      D. Burghelea, Ohio State University, Columbus
      L. Friedlander*, University of Arizona
      T. Kappeler, Ohio State University, Columbus
      (877-58-01)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Analytic surgery and the Eta invariant.
      Rafe Mazzeo*, University of Washington
      (877-58-90)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Sobolev constants, injectivity radius, and volume.
      Peter Petersen*, University of California, Los Angeles
      (877-58-34)
  • Sunday November 8, 1992, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Spectral Geometry, III

    Room 140, Kaprielian Hall

    • 2:00 p.m.
      Isospectral plane domains.
      Peter Doyle*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
      (877-58-106)
    • 2:30 p.m.
      Spectral diameter estimates for k-regular graphs.
      Gregory Quenell*, Bucknell University
      (877-58-10)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      On isospectral deformations on two-step nilmanifolds.
      He Ouyang*, Enertronics Research, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri
      (877-58-82)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Upper bound of the first eigenvalue for algebraic submanifolds.
      Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Ecole Polytechnic
      Peter Li*, University of California, Irvine
      Shin Tung Yau, Harvard University
      (877-58-89)
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