AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:38

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

Saturday April 12, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Automorphism Groups of Geometric Structures, I
Room 0201, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Alessandra Iozzi, University of Maryland iozzi@math.umd.edu
Garrett James Stuck, University of Maryland gns@math.umd.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Classification of Group Actions on Hyperelliptic Riemann Surfaces of Genus $\geq 2$.
  Anthony Weaver*, The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY
  (920-51-39)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Superrigid subgroups of solvable Lie groups
  Dave Witte*, Oklahoma State University
  (920-22-58)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The decomposition of real projective $n$-manifolds and the classification of radiant affine $3$-manifolds.
  Suhyoung Choi*, Seoul National University, Korea
  (920-51-62)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Arithmetic-Geometric Invariants of Symmetry
  Ravi S. Kulkarni*, City University of New York, Queen's College
  (920-22-64)

Saturday April 12, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Automorphism Groups of Geometric Structures, II
Room 0201, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Alessandra Iozzi, University of Maryland iozzi@math.umd.edu
Garrett James Stuck, University of Maryland gns@math.umd.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the dynamics of pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms on representation varieties of surface groups
  Michael Kapovich*,
  (920-53-116)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Growth rate of trajectories of flows on homogeneous spaces
  Dmitry Y Kleinbock*, Institute for Advanced Study
  Gregory A Margulis, Yale University
  (920-58-187)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Geodesic foliations and Lorentz dynamics
  Abdelghani Zeghib*, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyo, Lyon, France
  (920-58-133)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Curvature obstructions for compact Hermitian manifolds
  Luis Hernandez-Lamoneda*, CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico
  (920-53-148)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Topological Superrigidity and Applications
  Renato Feres*, Washington University
  Francois Labourie, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay
  (920-58-158)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Isometry Groups of Compact Hyper-lorentz Manifolds
  Brett A Sovereign*, University of Maryland College Park
  (920-53-29)

Sunday April 13, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Automorphism Groups of Geometric Structures, III
Room 0201, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Alessandra Iozzi, University of Maryland iozzi@math.umd.edu
Garrett James Stuck, University of Maryland gns@math.umd.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Superrigidity for isometric group actions on CAT(-1) spaces
  Yan Gao*, Yale University
  (920-22-131)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rigidity and Deformations for Semisimple Lie Group Actions
  Elie J. Benveniste*, Stanford University
  (920-53-171)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Isotropy of Semisimple Group Actions on Manifolds with Geometric Structure
  John P. Szaro*, University of Michigan
  (920-53-173)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Cocycles over Anosov actions and applications
  Viorel Ni\c tic\u a*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  Andrew T\"or\"ok, Princeton University
  (920-58-219)

Sunday April 13, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Automorphism Groups of Geometric Structures, IV
Room 0201, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Alessandra Iozzi, University of Maryland iozzi@math.umd.edu
Garrett James Stuck, University of Maryland gns@math.umd.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Geometry of Crooked Planes
  Todd A. Drumm*, Swarthmore College
  William M. Goldman, University of Maryland
  (920-51-201)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Invariant measures and orbit closures on homogeneous spaces foractions of subgroups generated by unipotent elements
  Nimish A Shah*, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton and Tata Institute of
  (920-22-205)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Topological Equivalence of Flows on Solvmanivolds
  Diego M Benardete*, University of Hartford
  S. G Dani, Tata Institute
  (920-58-214)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Compact Clifford-Klein forms of homogeneous manifolds
  Toshiyuki Kobayashi*, Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo
  (920-22-164)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Local rigidity of higher rank lattice actions
  Nantian Qian*, Yale University
  (920-58-179)

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