AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Conformal Geometry, I
Room 243, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Philip Lee Bowers, Florida State University bowers@math.fsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Riemann surfaces, plane algebraic curves, and their period matrices
  Patrizia Gianni, Universita di Pisa
  Mika Sepp\"al\"a*, Florida State University
  Robert Silhol, Universite de Montpellier II
  Barry Trager, IBM Research
  (926-14-277)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Computing values of quadratic differentials on Riemann surfaces
  Pekka Smolander*,
  (926-30-78)
- 4:20 p.m.
  Combinatorially short homology bases.
  Peter Buser*,
  Mika Sepp\"al\"a,
  (926-30-184)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Hurwitz Spaces and Representations of Subgroups of Braid Groups
  Eric P Klassen*, Florida State University
  Yaacov Kopeliovich, Florida State University
  (926-57-279)
- 5:40 p.m.
  Conformal Welding and Circle Packing
  George B Williams, Jr*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (926-30-133)

Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Conformal Geometry, II
Room 243, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Philip Lee Bowers, Florida State University bowers@math.fsu.edu
- 8:20 a.m.
  Aperiodic tiling
  Charles Radin*,
  (926-51-147)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Conformal Generalization of the Pinwheel Tiling
  Lorenzo A Sadun*,
  (926-51-110)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Conformality of rotationally invariant finite subdivision rules
  James W Cannon,
  William J Floyd*,
  Walter R Parry,
  (926-30-119)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Galois actions on maps on Riemann surfaces
  Gareth A. Jones*, University of Southampton
  (926-51-166)

Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Conformal Geometry, III
Room 243, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Philip Lee Bowers, Florida State University bowers@math.fsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Pleating structures for quasifuchsian space of once punctured tori
  Linda Keen*, CUNY
  Caroline Series,
  (926-32-126)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Towers of Riemann surfaces and virtual automorphisms of fundamental groups.
  Subhashis Nag*, Cornell University {\it and} The Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
  (926-30-61)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Superrigidity of the mapping class group
  Howard Masur*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Benson Farb, University of Chicago
  (926-57-257)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Geometry and combinatorics of curves on surfaces
  Yair N Minsky*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (926-57-206)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Geometry of some protein configurations.
  J. R. Quine*, Florida State University
  (926-51-261)
- 5:50 p.m.
  Real analytic variation of moduli of ring domains
  Clifford J. Earle*, Cornell University
  (926-30-142)

Sunday October 19, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Conformal Geometry, IV
Room 243, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Philip Lee Bowers, Florida State University bowers@math.fsu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On symmetries of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
  Albert Marden*,
  (926-51-209)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Ramanujan partition identities
  Hershel M. Farkas, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Irwin Kra*,
  (926-30-111)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Multi dimensional Theta identities
  Yaacov Kopeliovich*,
  (926-30-116)

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