AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:31

1996 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Lawrenceville, NJ, October 5-6, 1996
Meeting #914

• Saturday October 5, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations In Geometry, I
  Room 302, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa branson@math.uiowa.edu
  Robert C. McOwen, Northeastern University mcowen@neu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics for the Singular Yamabe Problem
    David L. Finn*, Merrimack College
    (914-35-208)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Prescribing Scalar curvature on $S^3$.
    Wenziong Chen*, Southwest Missouri State University
    Congming Li, University of Colorado
    (914-35-366)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sharp Sobolev type inequalities on Riemannian manifolds with boundary
    YanYan Li*, Rutgers University
    Meijun Zhu, Rutgers University
    (914-35-375)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Applications of Variational Theory to the Scalar Curvature Equation
    Abbas Bahri*, Rutgers University
    (914-35-367)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations In Geometry, II
  Room 302, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa branson@math.uiowa.edu
  Robert C. McOwen, Northeastern University mcowen@neu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Some Bochner-type theorems in 4- dimensional conformal geometry
    Matthew J. Gursky*,
    (914-35-322)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sharp fractional integral inequalities, and the spectrum of intertwining operators.
    Carlo Morpurgo*, University of Texas at Austin and Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita di Milano, Via Saldini, 50 Milan, Italy
    (914-58-274)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geometric Inequalities in Kinetic Theory and Hydrodynamics
    Eric A. Carlen*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (914-60-361)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sobolev inequalities, vortex dynamics and Lie groups
    William Beckner*, University of Texas at Austin
    (914-58-45)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Analogs of P.D.E.'s on fractals.
    Robert S. Strichartz*, Cornell University
    (914-35-370)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Wave propagation on symmetric spaces
    Gestur Olafsson*, Louisiana State University
    (914-35-381)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations In Geometry, III
  Room 302, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa branson@math.uiowa.edu
  Robert C. McOwen, Northeastern University mcowen@neu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Laplace Transformations for Cartan Submanifolds and Applications to p.d.e.'s
    Niky Kamran, McGill University
    Keti Tenenblat*, University of Brasilia
    (914-35-224)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Geometric and spectral properties of noncompact self-similar sets
    Alexander Teplyaev*, Cornell University
    (914-35-299)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Segal-Bargmann transform for compact Lie groups
    Brian C. Hall*, McMaster University
    (914-22-161)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stability of Weakly Almost Conformal Mappings
    Zhengfang Zhou*, Michigan State University
    (914-49-242)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations In Geometry, IV
  Room 302, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa branson@math.uiowa.edu
  Robert C. McOwen, Northeastern University mcowen@neu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Equations of Biharmonic Type
    Libin Mou*, Bradley University
    (914-35-159)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bubbling of the heat flows for harmonic maps from surfaces.
    Jie Qing*,
    Gang Tian,
    (914-58-66)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Motion by Surface Tension
    Nicholas Alikakos*, University of Tennessee
    (914-35-178)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Some global free boundary problems arising in differential geometry.
    Joel Spruck*, Johns Hopkins University
    (914-53-163)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Natural Lagrangian and Symplectic Structures for Constant Mean Curvature Moduli Spaces and Related Geometric Variational Problems
    Rob Kusner*, University of Massachusetts and The Institute for Advanced Study
    (914-53-97)