AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

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)

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