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

Saturday April 13, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Gauge Field Theory, I
Room 626, Shimkin Hall
Organizers:
Janet C. Talvacchia, Swarthmore College
Yisong Yang, Polytechnic University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Nonquadratic Yang-Mills energies.
  Thomas H. Otway*, Yeshiva University
  (910-35-32)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Existence of hyperbolic monopoles.
  Lesley M. Sibner*, Polytechnic University
  Robert J. Sibner, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
  (910-35-28)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Mayer-Vietoris principle for monopoles.
  Eugene A. Durenard*, Saloman Brothers, United Kingdom
  (910-58-86)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Renormalized energy for Ginzburg-Landau vortices on closed surfaces.
  Jie Qing*, Columbia University
  (910-53-71)

Saturday April 13, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Gauge Field Theory, II
Room 626, Shimkin Hall
Organizers:
Janet C. Talvacchia, Swarthmore College
Yisong Yang, Polytechnic University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Torus splittings and spectral flow of the twisted signature operator.
  Christopher M. Herald*, McMaster University
  (910-53-63)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Euler characteristics of moduli spaces of instantons over four sphere.
  Youliang Tian*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (910-53-62)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Multiple condensate solutions for the Chern-Simon-Higgs theory.
  Gabriella Tarantello*, Universit'a di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
  (910-35-47)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Instantons and the information metric.
  David Groisser*, University of Florida
  Michael K. Murray, University of Adelaide, Australia
  (910-53-95)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Existence of multi-vortices solutions for a self-dual Maxwell-Chern-Simons-Higgs system.
  Dongho Chae*, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  Namkwon Kim, Postech, Korea
  (910-53-138)

Sunday April 14, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Gauge Field Theory, III
Room 626, Shimkin Hall
Organizers:
Janet C. Talvacchia, Swarthmore College
Yisong Yang, Polytechnic University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Mass degeneracies in self-dual Chern-Simons theories.
  Gerald Dunne*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  (910-81-70)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Hawking radiation and Einstein-Yang/Mills equations.
  Joel A. Smoller*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Arthur G. Wasserman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (910-83-59)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Gauge theories of two-dimensional gravity.
  Roman Jackiw*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (910-81-57)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Yang-Mills hierarchies in even dimensions and their descendants.
  D. H. Tchrakian*, Saint Patrick's College, Ireland
  (910-81-113)

Sunday April 14, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Gauge Field Theory, IV
Room 626, Shimkin Hall
Organizers:
Janet C. Talvacchia, Swarthmore College
Yisong Yang, Polytechnic University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Non-abelian monopoles and invariants of smooth four-manifolds.
  Paul M.N Feehan*, Harvard University
  Thomas G. Leness, Michigan State University
  (910-58-30)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Negative tori and the Seiberg-Witten invariants.
  Daniel Ruberman*, Brandeis University
  (910-57-117)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Non-Abelian equivariant holomorphic Morse inequalities.
  Siye Wu*, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy
  (910-58-114)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A gauge theoretic solution to the index number problem in mathematical economics.
  Pia N. Malaney, Harvard University
  Eric Weinstein*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (910-53-126)

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