AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:41

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

Friday October 24, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Topology and Quantum Cohomology, I
Room E-204, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Yong-Geun Oh, University of Wisconsin oh@math.wisc.edu
Yongbin Ruan, University of Utah ruan@math.wisc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Topological recursion relations in genus 2
  Ezra Getzler*, Northwestern University
  (927-14-63)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A geometric construction of Getzler's elliptic equation.
  Rahul Pandharipande*, University of Chicago
  (927-58-207)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Symplectic surgeries along spheres
  Margaret F Symington*, University of Texas, Austin
  (927-53-197)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Rigidity of Hamiltonian Loops
  Dusa McDuff*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Fran\c{c}ois Lalonde, Universit\'e de Qu\'ebec \`a Montreal
  Leonid Polterovich, Tel-Aviv University
  (927-58-146)

Friday October 24, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Topology and Quantum Cohomology, II
Room E-204, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Yong-Geun Oh, University of Wisconsin oh@math.wisc.edu
Yongbin Ruan, University of Utah ruan@math.wisc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Symplectic fixed point estimates
  Matthias Schwarz*,
  (927-58-109)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The symplectic Floer homology for connected sums of knots
  Weiping Li*, Oklahoma State University
  (927-58-236)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The $SU(3)$ Casson invariant for integral homology spheres
  Hans U. Boden, Ohio State University Mansfield
  Christopher M. Herald*, Swarthmore College
  (927-58-215)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break
- 4:30 p.m.
  Gromov Invariants of Symplectic Connect Sums
  Thomas H Parker*, Michigan State University
  Eleny-Nicoleta Ionel, M.I.T.
  (927-58-219)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion

Saturday October 25, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Topology and Quantum Cohomology, III
Room E-204, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Yong-Geun Oh, University of Wisconsin oh@math.wisc.edu
Yongbin Ruan, University of Utah ruan@math.wisc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Formula for Holomorphic Sections of Tautological Line Bundles on Deligne-Mumford Moduli Spaces and its Applications
  Yuan-Pin Lee*, University of California at Berkeley
  (927-58-125)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Uniformization using (non-Abelian) SW equations.
  Naichung Conan Leung*, University of Minnesota
  (927-58-196)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Invariants of Legendrian knots
  Yakov Eliashberg*, Stanford University
  Helmut Hofer, ETH, Zurich
  (927-58-245)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Degeneration of K\"{a}hler-Einstein metrics on complete K\"{a}hler Manifolds
  Peng Lu*, University of Minnesota
  Conan N. Leung, University of Minnesota
  (927-58-228)

Saturday October 25, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Topology and Quantum Cohomology, IV
Room E-204, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Yong-Geun Oh, University of Wisconsin oh@math.wisc.edu
Yongbin Ruan, University of Utah ruan@math.wisc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Symplectic Packings in Cotangent Bundles of Tori
  F. Miller Maley,
  Jean B. Mastrangeli,
  Lisa M. Traynor*,
  (927-58-140)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Symplectic aspects of ampleness.
  Paul Biran*,
  (927-58-206)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some results in Seiberg-Witten theory and symplectic geometry
  Tian-Jun Li*, Yale University
  (927-58-150)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break
- 4:30 p.m.
  Some results in Seiberg Witten theory and symplectic geometry
  Ai-KO Liu*, Department of math.,MIT
  (927-58-148)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Floer homology of open subsets and a refinement of Arnold's conjecture.
  Yong-Geun Oh*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Rajesh Kasturirangan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (927-58-116)

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