AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:32

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Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday November 1, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, I
Room 114, General Classroom Building
Organizers:
John Kelly Beem, University of Missouri, Columbia mathjkb@mizzou1.missouri.edu
Adam D. Helfer, University of Missouri, Columbia dgsession@godel.math.missouri.edu
- 4:00 p.m.
  B\"acklund transformations and knots of constant torsion
  Annalisa Calini, College of Charleston
  Thomas A. Ivey*, Case Western Reserve University
  (916-53-113)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Isotopies of Foliated3--Manifolds Without Holonomy
  John Cantwell, St. Louis University
  Lawrence Conlon*, Washington University in St. Louis
  (916-53-141)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Dupin hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures
  Thomas E. Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
  Gary R. Jensen*, Washington University
  (916-53-166)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Zillions of Isospectral Riemann Surfaces
  Robert Brooks, Univ. Southern Cal./Technion-Israel
  Ruth Gornet*, Texas Tech University
  Bill Gustafson, Texas Tech University
  (916-53-247)

Saturday November 2, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, II
Room 114, General Classroom Building
Organizers:
John Kelly Beem, University of Missouri, Columbia mathjkb@mizzou1.missouri.edu
Adam D. Helfer, University of Missouri, Columbia dgsession@godel.math.missouri.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Casimir Energies and Heat Kernel asymptotics
  Matt Visser*, Washington University
  (916-83-49)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quantum Ergodic Theory and Non-Commutative Geometry
  Gerard Emch*, University of Florida
  (916-53-63)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Homogeneous non-linear sprays and connections.
  Lilia Del Riego*, Zona Universitaria, Mexico
  Phillip E.E. Parker, Wichita State University
  (916-53-114)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Examples of planar sprays
  Phillip E. Parker*, Wichita State University
  Lilia Del Riego, Zona Universitaria, Mexico
  (916-53-115)

Saturday November 2, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry,III
Room 114, General Classroom Building
Organizers:
John Kelly Beem, University of Missouri, Columbia mathjkb@mizzou1.missouri.edu
Adam D. Helfer, University of Missouri, Columbia dgsession@godel.math.missouri.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Totally geodesic lightlike hypersurface of spacetime.
  Krishan L. Duggal*, University of Windsor
  (916-53-106)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Volume Comparison Theorems on Lorentzian Manifolds
  Seon-Bu Kim*, Chonnam National University, Korea
  (916-53-48)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A local version of topological censorship.
  Gregory J. Galloway*, University of Miami
  (916-53-235)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Regularity of the Cosmological Time Function
  Lars Andersson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  Gregory J. Galloway, University of Miami
  Ralph Howard*, University of South Carolina.
  (916-53-86)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Naked strong curvature singularities in Szekeres space-times
  Andrzej Krolak*, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
  (916-53-116)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Curvature homogeneous metrics and the redshift of light from remote sources
  Victor Patrangenaru*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (916-83-87)

Sunday November 3, 1996, 10:00 a.m.-1:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, IV
Room 114, General Classroom Building
Organizers:
John Kelly Beem, University of Missouri, Columbia mathjkb@mizzou1.missouri.edu
Adam D. Helfer, University of Missouri, Columbia dgsession@godel.math.missouri.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  First Variation in $p$-harmonic Geometry
  Shihshu Walter Wei*, University of Oklahoma
  (916-53-177)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A characterization of Riemannian flows
  Philippe Tondeur*, University of Illinois
  (916-53-62)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The local classification of semi-symmetric spaces and some applications.
  Eric Boeckx*, University of Illinois
  (916-53-75)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Warped Products of Metric Spaces
  Stephanie B. Alexander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Richard L. Bishop*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (916-53-253)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Wave propagation in symmetric spaces
  Thomas Branson*, The University of Iowa
  (916-53-251)
- 12:30 p.m.
  Projective Maps of Rank $\geq$ 2 are Strongly Projective
  James Joseph Hebda*, Saint Louis University
  (916-53-264)
- 1:00 p.m.
  Affin hypersurface on the manifold with non lienar connection.
  Sabria Attallah*, Al-Azhar Girls University, Egypt
  (916-53-43)

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