AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:39

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

Friday May 2, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, I
Room 123, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Daniel S. Drucker, Wayne State University drucker@math.wayne.edu
Chorng-Shi Houh, Wayne State University houh@math.wayne.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Rigidity of Actions of Abelian and Semisimple groups
  Ralf J Spatzier*, Univ of Michigan
  (922-53-110)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Compactifications of Hermitian locally symmetric spaces and aconjecture of Harris--Zucker
  Lizhen Ji*, University of Michigan
  (922-53-30)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Hermitian conformal classes and almost K\"ahler structures on 4-manifolds
  Vestislav Apostolov, Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Science
  Tedi Draghici*, Michigan State University
  (922-53-94)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Twistor spaces for homogeneous spaces and applications to harmonic maps
  J. A. Jim\'{e}nez*, Penn State Hazleton
  (922-53-129)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Length spectrum of circles in a complex projective space
  Sadahiro Maeda*, Shimane University, Japan
  Toshiaki Adachi, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
  (922-53-15)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The space of harmonic two-spheres in a unitary group or complex Grassmannian
  Martin A Guest*, University of Rochester
  (922-53-22)

Saturday May 3, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, II
Room 123, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Daniel S. Drucker, Wayne State University drucker@math.wayne.edu
Chorng-Shi Houh, Wayne State University houh@math.wayne.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Affine isometric embedding for surfaces
  Thomas A Ivey*, Case Western Reserve University
  (922-53-100)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Curvature of $\Theta$-metrics near the boundary
  Matthew B. Stenzel*, Ohio State University, Newark Campus
  (922-53-96)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Differential geometry and the red blood cell
  H. W. Vayo*, Univesity of Toledo
  (922-53-203)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On Planar Crystalline Evolution
  Alina Stancu*, Case Western Reserve University
  (922-53-114)

Saturday May 3, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, III
Room 123, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Daniel S. Drucker, Wayne State University drucker@math.wayne.edu
Chorng-Shi Houh, Wayne State University houh@math.wayne.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Low type submanifolds of complex space forms
  Ivko M Dimitric*, Penn State University
  (922-53-106)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some New Obstructions to Minimal and Lagrangian Immersions
  Bang-yen Chen*, Michigan State University
  (922-53-13)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Elliptic functions, Theta function and hypersurfaces satisfying abasic equality
  Jie Yang*, Michigan State University
  (922-53-115)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Variational Methods in Complex Contact Geometry
  Brendan J. Foreman*, Case Western Reserve University
  (922-53-58)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Normality on the Complex Contact Metric Manifolds
  Belgin Karaman*,
  (922-53-176)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Special Directions on Contact Metric Manifolds of Negative$\xi$-sectional Curvature
  David E. Blair*, Michigan State University
  (922-53-16)

Sunday May 4, 1997, 10:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, IV
Room 123, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Daniel S. Drucker, Wayne State University drucker@math.wayne.edu
Chorng-Shi Houh, Wayne State University houh@math.wayne.edu
- 10:30 a.m.
  Lightlike hypersurfaces of Lorentz framed manifolds.
  Krishan L. Duggal*, University of Windsor
  (922-53-63)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Some basic facts about Lorentz surfaces
  Naomi L Klarreich*, Case Western Reserve University
  (922-53-199)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Causality conditions on simply connected Lorentz surfaces
  Luke A. Higgins*, Rutgers University
  (922-53-177)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Symplectic connections and quasars
  Ivan C Sterling*, University of Toledo
  Geoffrey Martin, University of Toledo
  (922-53-73)

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