AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:29

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday March 22, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Cohomology, I
Room 343, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Walter I. Seaman, University of Iowa
- 8:30 a.m.
  A characterization of complex projective space.
  Stephen P. Bean*, University of Iowa
  (909-53-11)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Lengths of closed geodesics in certain $2$-step nilmanifolds.
  Maura B. Mast*, University of Northern Iowa
  Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech University
  (909-53-217)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quasi-regular representations and the geometry of nilmanifolds.
  Ruth Gornet*, Texas Tech University
  (909-53-191)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Asymptotics of heat kernels on Riemannian foliations.
  Kenneth S. Richardson*, Texas Christian University
  (909-58-66)

Friday March 22, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Cohomology, II
Room 343, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Walter I. Seaman, University of Iowa
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Fary-Milnor theorem for Hadamard $3$-manifolds.
  Stephanie B. Alexander*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Richard L. Bishop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (909-53-237)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Can one hear the braid group?
  Garth Baker*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (909-51-69)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Racetracks and extremal problems for curves of bounded curvature in metric spaces.
  Stephanie B. Alexander, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Richard L. Bishop*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (909-51-244)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Distributed vortices and the Seiberg-Witten equations.
  Steven B. Bradlow*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Oscar Garcia-Prada, University Autonoma de Cantoblanco, Spain
  (909-51-179)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Kernels of monodromy representations.
  James A. Carlson*, University of Utah
  Domingo Toledo, University of Utah
  (909-14-223)

Saturday March 23, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Cohomology, III
Room 343, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Walter I. Seaman, University of Iowa
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the incompleteness of Berger's list of holonomy representations.
  Quoshin Chi*, Washington University
  Sergey Merkulov, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
  Lorenz J. Schwachhoefer, University of Leipzig, Germany
  (909-53-79)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On symmetries of constant mean curvature surfaces.
  Josef F. Dorfmeister*, University of Kansas
  Guido Haak, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
  (909-53-205)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Seiberg-Witten invariants of complex surfaces with the reversed orientation.
  Tedi C. Draghici*, Michigan State University
  (909-57-68)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dupin hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures.
  Gary R. Jensen*, Washington University
  Thomas E. Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
  (909-53-110)

Saturday March 23, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Cohomology, IV
Room 343, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Walter I. Seaman, University of Iowa
- 3:00 p.m.
  Dirac operators on Clifford bundles and jointly seminormal spectra.
  Mircea Martin*, University of Kansas
  (909-58-213)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Minimal orbits of metrics and applications.
  Yoshiaki Maeda, Keio University, Japan
  Steven Rosenberg, Boston University
  Philippe Tondeur*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (909-58-67)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On Seiberg-Witten solutions.
  Shuguang Wang*, University of Missouri, Columbia
  (909-57-215)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the dressing action of loop groups on harmonic maps.
  Hongyou Wu*, Northern Illinois University
  (909-53-104)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Geodesic length functions and cohomology of mapping class groups.
  Yining Xia*, Northern Illinois University
  (909-55-29)

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