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 Differential Geometry, I
Room E-220, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dupin hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures
  Gary R. Jensen*, Washington University
  Thomas E. Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
  (927-53-179)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Quadratic Differentials and Conformal Immersions
  George I Kamberov*,
  (927-53-259)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Minimal surfaces via loop groups.
  Josef Dorfmeister, University of Kansas
  Franz Pedit, University of Massachusetts
  Magdalena Daniela Toda*, The University of Kansas
  (927-53-182)

Friday October 24, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, II
Room E-220, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Frenet equations for a null curve.
  Krishan L Duggal*, University of Windsor
  (927-53-151)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Symplectic Connections and Quasars.
  Ivan C Sterling*, Univ of Toledo
  Geoffrey Martin, Univ of Toledo
  (927-53-184)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Gradients and Variational Problems
  Anders I Linner*,
  (927-53-144)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Manifolds with zero Morse Index
  Shihshu Walter Wei*, OU
  (927-53-187)
- 5:10 p.m.
  An Optimal Path Problem
  Libin Mou*,
  (927-53-189)

Saturday October 25, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, III
Room E-220, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Catastrophic phenomena in soap bubble experiments.
  Henry C. Wente*, University of Toledo
  (927-49-367)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Discrete curves and their discrete integrable flows
  Franz J Pedit*,
  (927-53-118)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Line Congruences and the Space of Lines
  Mary D. Shepherd*, SUNY College at Potsdam
  (927-53-97)

Saturday October 25, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, IV
Room E-220, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Hermitian--Einstein equation on K\"ahlerian fiber bundles and the coupled vortex equations.
  James F. Glazebrook*, Eastern Illinois University and University of Illinois
  Steven B. Bradlow, University of Illinois
  Franz W. Kamber, University of Illinois
  (927-53-130)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Symplectic Connections and Exotic Holonomy
  Quo-Shin Chi*, Washington University in St. Louis
  (927-53-139)
- 3:50 p.m.
  The degree of superminimal surfaces in spheres.
  Luis Fern\'andez*, Washington University
  (927-53-216)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A Sharp Isoperimetric Inequality for PL-manifolds of Non-positive Curvature
  Jianguo Cao*, University of Notre Dame
  (927-58-200)
- 5:10 p.m.
  New Isospectral Deformations of Closed Riemannian Manifolds.
  Carolyn S Gordon, Dartmouth College
  Ruth Gornet*, Texas Tech University
  Dorothee Schueth, Mathematisches Institut der Univ. Bonn
  David L Webb, Dartmouth College
  Ed Wilson, Washington University
  (927-58-330)
- 5:50 p.m.
  Helices and Hasimoto Surfaces.
  Thomas A. Ivey*, Ball State University
  (927-53-331)

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