AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:22

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 7, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Lie Groups, I
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dupin hypersurfaces with three principal curvatures.
  Thomas E. Cecil*, College of the Holy Cross
  Gary R. Jensen, Washington University
  (903-53-92)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Dupin hypersurfaces in Lie sphere geometry.
  Thomas E. Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
  Gary R. Jensen*, Washington University
  (903-53-91)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Taut submanifolds in symmetric spaces.
  Gudlaugur Thorbergsson*, University of Cologne, Germany
  Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University
  (903-53-142)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The push-out space of a submanifold.
  Alan West*, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
  (903-53-145)

Saturday October 7, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Lie Groups, II
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University
- 2:30 p.m.
  On $k$-minimal submanifolds.
  Sheila Carter*, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
  (903-53-147)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Periods of central elements in Heisenberg-like $2$-step nilpotent Lie groups.
  Maura B. Mast*, University of Northern Iowa
  Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech University
  (903-22-41)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Flat affine surfaces with flat normal connection.
  Martin A. Magid*, Wellesley College
  Luc Vrancken, Catholic University Louvain, Belgium
  (903-53-118)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Tight immersions of manifolds like projective spaces.
  Ross S. Niebergall*, University of Northern British Columbia
  Gudlaugur Thorbergsson, University of Cologne, Germany
  (903-53-174)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Affine isoparametric and Dupin hypersurfaces.
  Patrick J. Ryan*, McMaster University
  (903-53-191)

Sunday October 8, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Lie Groups, III
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Isometric immersions and integrable systems.
  Franz Pedit*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (903-53-121)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On constant mean curvature surfaces with symmetry groups.
  Josef F. Dorfmeister*, University of Kansas
  Guido Haak, KITCS, Lawrence, Kansas
  (903-53-215)
- 10:00 a.m.
  B\"acklund transformations and Poisson group actions.
  Karen Uhlenbeck*, University of Texas, Austin
  (903-53-249)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Harmonic $2$-spheres in $U(n)$, revisited.
  Martin A. Guest*, University of Rochester
  (903-53-143)

Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Lie Groups, IV
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Exotic holonomies and Poisson geometry.
  Quoshin Chi*, Washington University
  Lorenz J. Schwachhoefer, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany
  (903-53-146)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Continuous families of isospectral metrics which are not locally isometric.
  Carolyn S. Gordon*, Dartmouth College
  Edward N. Wilson, Washington University
  (903-53-167)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some new homogeneous Einstein metrics on symmetric spaces.
  Megan M. Kerr*, Dartmouth College
  (903-53-128)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the $ODE$ system arising from Einstein's equation for Riemannian metrics.
  McKenzie Y. Wang*, McMaster University
  (903-53-161)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Scalar curvature rigidity.
  Maung Min-oo*, McMaster University
  (903-53-187)

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