AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:40

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

Friday September 26, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Differential Topology, I
Room B-4260, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Jacques C. Hurtubise, McGill University hurtubise@math.mcgill.ca
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University jeffrey@math.mcgill.edu
Francois Lalonde, University of Quebec at Montreal flalonde@math.uqam.ca
- 9:00 a.m.
  Bott-Samelson Geometry of Gelfand-Cetlin Bases
  Michael D. Grossberg*,
  Miljenko Zabcic,
  (924-14-259)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Hamiltonian Circle Actions on Four-Dimensional Symplectic Orbifolds
  Stephanie Frank Singer*, Haverford College
  Janet Talvacchia, Swarthmore College
  (924-58-201)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Discrete Abelian Chern-Simmons TQFT via Whitney Forms and Finite Element Discretizations
  P. Robert Kotiuga*, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
  (924-57-60)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Hamiltonian Structure of Isomonodromic Deformations
  John Harnad*, Concordia & CRM
  (924-58-88)

Friday September 26, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Differential Topology, II
Room B-4260, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Jacques C. Hurtubise, McGill University hurtubise@math.mcgill.ca
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University jeffrey@math.mcgill.edu
Francois Lalonde, University of Quebec at Montreal flalonde@math.uqam.ca
- 2:00 p.m.
  On the Caratheodory conjecture
  Janna Nikolaeva*, Institute of Applied Physics, Moldova
  (924-58-273)
- 2:40 p.m.
  On the quantum cohmology rings of Fano toric manifolds
  Jeffrey Ho*, University of Illinois
  (924-53-213)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Incompatible Poisson structures.
  Oleg I. Bogoyavlenskij*, Queen's University
  (924-58-121)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A Theorem on Lagrangian Intersections and applications to the principle of minimal action.
  Daniel C. Offin*, Queens University
  (924-58-45)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Calabi-Yau and Seiberg-Witten integrable systems
  Ron Y Donagi*, UPenn
  (924-14-266)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Differential Topology, III
Room 240, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Jacques C. Hurtubise, McGill University hurtubise@math.mcgill.ca
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University jeffrey@math.mcgill.edu
Francois Lalonde, University of Quebec at Montreal flalonde@math.uqam.ca
- 8:20 a.m.
  Genus zero moduli space as a ``difference" of toric varieties
  Allen I Knutson*,
  Jean-Claude Hausmann,
  (924-53-295)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Symplectic cross-sections and the equivariant index theorem
  Reyer Sjamaar*,
  (924-58-80)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Moduli spaces of flat connections and fusion
  Christopher T Woodward*, Harvard University
  (924-53-272)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Cobordism and moduli spaces of flat connections on 2-manifolds
  Eckhard Meinrenken*, MIT
  (924-53-190)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Differential Topology, IV
Room 240, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Jacques C. Hurtubise, McGill University hurtubise@math.mcgill.ca
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University jeffrey@math.mcgill.edu
Francois Lalonde, University of Quebec at Montreal flalonde@math.uqam.ca
- 2:30 p.m.
  Relative equilibria at singular points of the moment map
  Eugene Lerman*,
  (924-58-111)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Floer Homology and Arnold Conjecture
  Gang Liu*,
  Gang Tian,
  (924-53-211)
- 3:50 p.m.
  The topology of the symplectomorphism group of $S^2\times S^2$
  Dusa McDuff*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Miguel Abreu,
  (924-58-299)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Contact homology
  Yakov Eliashberg*, Stanford University
  (924-53-305)

Sunday September 28, 1997, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Differential Topology, V
Room 240, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Jacques C. Hurtubise, McGill University hurtubise@math.mcgill.ca
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University jeffrey@math.mcgill.edu
Francois Lalonde, University of Quebec at Montreal flalonde@math.uqam.ca
- 8:20 a.m.
  Index of contact transformations
  David Borthwick,
  Ana Canas da Silva*,
  Alan Weinstein,
  (924-53-229)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Exotic components of $F$ theory moduli spaces
  Ludmil V Katzarkov, UC Irvine
  Tony G Pantev*, University of Pennsylvania
  (924-14-283)
- 9:40 a.m.
  On a formula of Goresky, Kottwitz and MacPherson
  Susan Tolman*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (924-58-289)
- 10:20 a.m.
  On the cohomology rings of symplectic quotients
  Jonathan Weitsman*, University of California
  (924-58-292)

Sunday September 28, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Differential Topology, VI
Room 240, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Jacques C. Hurtubise, McGill University hurtubise@math.mcgill.ca
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University jeffrey@math.mcgill.edu
Francois Lalonde, University of Quebec at Montreal flalonde@math.uqam.ca
- 2:30 p.m.
  Contact structures, Stein manifolds and Seiberg-Witten invariants
  Gordana Matic*, University of Georgia
  Paolo Lisca, University of Pisa, Italy
  (924-58-294)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Null sets of Hofer-Zehnder capacity
  Tadashi F. Tokieda*,
  (924-53-287)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Moduli spaces of holomorphic bundles and the Verlinde formula
  Lisa Claire Jeffrey*, McGill University
  (924-58-276)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Framed parabolic bundles
  Jacques Hurtubise*, McGill University
  Lisa Jeffrey, McGill University
  (924-14-293)

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