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.-12:10 p.m.
Special Session on Non-Euclidean and Spacetime Geometries, I
Room B-4275, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Abraham A. Ungar, North Dakota State University ungar@tammy.math.ndsu.NoDak.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Higher Dimensional Crooked Planes
  Todd A. Drumm*,
  (924-51-15)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Properly Discontinuous Actions of Free Groups on ${\Bbb R}^{2,1}$.
  Virginie Charette*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (924-51-38)
- 10:20 a.m.
  A heat kernel approach to the Selberg trace formula.
  Jonathan Huntley*,
  (924-51-124)
- 11:00 a.m.
  A new 5D geometric formalism for physics and for data processing
  Vladik Kreinovich*, University of Texas at El Paso
  Scott A. Starks, NASA PACES Center
  (924-51-65)
- 11:40 a.m.
  Orbits of isometric actions on Lorentz manifolds
  J\'anos Szenthe*, E\"otv\"os University
  (924-53-81)

Friday September 26, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Non-Euclidean and Spacetime Geometries, II
Room 340, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Abraham A. Ungar, North Dakota State University ungar@tammy.math.ndsu.NoDak.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Comtrans Algebras
  Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Iowa State University
  (924-17-19)
- 3:10 p.m.
  The conjectures of Thompson and Ore
  Erich W Ellers*, North Dakota State University
  (924-51-67)
- 3:50 p.m.
  A note on degenerate solutions of hyperbolicity equations.
  Carlo Petronio*, University of Pisa
  Jeff Weeks, Canton, NY
  (924-51-91)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Applications of a Matrix Decomposition to Complex Hyperbolic Geometry
  Hanna M. Sandler*, American University
  Jeffrey L. Hakim, American University
  (924-51-69)
- 5:10 p.m.
  On transsymetric spaces and smooth quasigroups
  Liudmila Sabinina*, Michoacan University
  (924-51-156)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Non-Euclidean and Spacetime Geometries, III
Room 330, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Abraham A. Ungar, North Dakota State University ungar@tammy.math.ndsu.NoDak.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Explorations in Non-Euclidean Geometry with Software
  Joe D Austin*, Rice University
  (924-51-309)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Final stage of evolution of geometry and topology of space-time
  Alexander K Guts*, Omsk State University
  (924-51-77)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Trigonometry in Complex Hyperbolic and Elliptic Space
  William M Goldman*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (924-51-39)
- 9:35 a.m.
  Thomas Precession in Hyperbolic Geometry and in Special Theory of Relativity.
  Abraham A Ungar*, North Dakota State University
  (924-51-18)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Remarks on Riemann, based on Detlef Laugwitz's recent book {\it Bernhard Riemann}.
  Abe Shenitzer*, York University
  (924-51-51)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Non-Euclidean and Spacetime Geometries, IV
Room 330, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Abraham A. Ungar, North Dakota State University ungar@tammy.math.ndsu.NoDak.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Gyrogroups and symmetric spaces of non-compact type
  Werner Krammer*, Institut fur Theoretische Physik
  (924-51-84)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Loopuscular Geometry
  Lev V Sabinin*, Russian Friendship of Nations University
  (924-20-31)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Non-Euclidean Geometry and Gyrogroups
  Michael K Kinyon*, Indiana University South Bend
  (924-51-37)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the equivalence of categories of Riemannian globally symmetric spaces of non-compact type and gyro-vector spaces
  Oliver Jones*, North Dakota State University
  (924-51-41)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Quantization of spin$^c$ manifolds
  Ana Canas da Silva*,
  (924-53-230)

Sunday September 28, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Non-Euclidean and Spacetime Geometries, V
Room 330, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Abraham A. Ungar, North Dakota State University ungar@tammy.math.ndsu.NoDak.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  www.Hyperbolic.Geometry.edu -- The Internet as an Educational Tool
  Colleen M Robles*, University of Washington
  (924-51-78)
- 8:35 a.m.
  Relativity on 3-manifolds
  Dipak K Sen*, University of Toronto
  (924-83-66)
- 9:10 a.m.
  Perfect Transsymmetric Spaces
  Larissa V. Sbitneva*, Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics
  Lev V. Sabinin, Russian Friendship of Nations University
  (924-20-32)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Dynamics on Lorentz manifolds
  Scot Adams*, University of Minnesota
  (924-51-46)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Hyperbolic Geometry and Conformal Field Theory
  Peter H. Kleban*, University of Maine
  (924-51-172)

Sunday September 28, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Non-Euclidean and Spacetime Geometries, VI
Room 330, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Abraham A. Ungar, North Dakota State University ungar@tammy.math.ndsu.NoDak.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Normal Forms in R$^{3,1}$ and Elastic Curves in Hyperbolic 3 Space
  Daniel H Steinberg*, Oberlin College
  (924-51-79)
- 3:10 p.m.
  On topological censorship
  Gregory J Galloway*, Univ. of Miami
  (924-53-161)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Open Problems
- 4:35 p.m.
  Discussion

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