AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Friday April 8, 1994, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory and Applications, I
Room 615, Rogers Hall
- 1:00 p.m.
  Donaldson invariants of elliptic surfaces.
  John W. Morgan*, Columbia University
  (892-57-244)
- 1:30 p.m.
  A topological aspect of moduli spaces of instantons over four sphere.
  Youliang Tian*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (892-53-108)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Functions in Yang-Mills theory.
  Artur Sowa*, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
  (892-81-193)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Topology of the ends of instanton moduli spaces.
  Paul M.N Feehan*, Harvard University
  (892-58-38)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Blow-up formulas for Donaldson polynomials.
  Peter S. Ozs\'vath*, Princeton University
  (892-57-236)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Holomorphic constructions in topology.
  Jacques Hurtubise*, McGill University
  (892-14-145)

Saturday April 9, 1994, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory and Applications, II
Room 615, Rogers Hall
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cyclic cocycles and functional integration.
  Arthur Jaffe*, Harvard University
  (892-81-223)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The relative Donaldson invariants of CP^2.
  Jim Bryan*, Harvard University
  (892-81-206)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The existence of non-trivial critical points of the Yang-Mills-Higgs functional on R^3 with arbitrary positive coupling constant.
  L. M. Sibner, Polytechnic University
  J. Talvacchia*, Swarthmore College
  (892-81-205)

Saturday April 9, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory and Applications, III
Room 615, Rogers Hall
- 2:30 p.m.
  SU(2) representations of three-manifolds.
  Stamatis Dostoglou*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (892-53-96)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Diffeomorphism invariant representations of surface fundamental groups.
  G. Daskalopoulos, Princeton University
  S. Dostoglou, University of California, Santa Barbara
  R. Wentworth*, Harvard University
  (892-57-252)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Group cohomology construction of the cohomology ring of moduli spaces of representations of surface groups.
  Lisa Jeffrey*, Princeton University
  (892-58-127)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Some computations of Donaldson's invariants via flat connections.
  Baozhen Yu*, California Institute of Technology
  (892-57-62)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Holomorphic bundles and instantons on cylindrical four manifolds.
  Guang-Yuan Guo*, Michigan State University
  (892-53-196)

Sunday April 10, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory and Applications, IV
Room 615, Rogers Hall
- 9:00 a.m.
  An equivariant Atiyah-Ward correspondence.
  Jan Segert*, University of Missouri, Columbia
  (892-53-232)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Yang-Mills connections and ODE's.
  Lorenzo Sadun*, University of Texas, Austin
  (892-58-109)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Differential forms on the Yang-Mills moduli space.
  Thomas H. Parker*, Michigan State University
  David Groisser, University of Florida
  (892-58-250)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A connected sum theorem for Kuranishi vector fields of 3-manifolds.
  Su-Ming Wu*, Brandeis University
  (892-58-234)

Sunday April 10, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory and Applications, V
Room 615, Rogers Hall
- 2:30 p.m.
  Prescribing topological defects for the Einstein and Abelian Higgs equations.
  Yisong Yang*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (892-58-171)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Relations among Donaldson invariants arising from tori.
  Daniel Ruberman*, Brandeis University
  (892-57-233)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Chern-Simons character of a lattice gauge field.
  Anthony V. Phillips, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  David A. Stone*, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
  (892-53-212)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Gauge theory on compact surfaces.
  Ambar Sengupta*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  (892-81-137)

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