AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:47

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

Friday March 20, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, I
Room 3, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech University gornet@math.ttu.edu
Peter Anton Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The dispersionless Toda equation and Toeplitz operators.
  Alejandro Uribe*, University of Michigan
  (931-58-216)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Vibrating Strings and Cylinders with Variable Mass Density.
  Richard Snyder Laugesen*, University of Illinois, Urbana--Champaign
  (931-35-91)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The spectrum of the Hodge Laplacian for three manifolds with pinched negative curvature.
  Jeffrey K McGowan*, Central Connecticut State University
  Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech/University of Kentucky
  (931-58-174)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Heat kernel and Green function estimates on noncompact symmetric spaces.
  Lizhen Ji*, University of Michigan
  (931-58-111)

Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, II
Room 3, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech University gornet@math.ttu.edu
Peter Anton Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu
- 2:45 p.m.
  Locally nonisometric yet super isospectral spaces;The full exploration.
  Zoltan I Szabo*, Lehman College of The City University of New York
  (931-58-309)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Continuous families of isospectral Riemannian metrics which are not locally isometric.
  Carolyn S. Gordon, Dartmouth College
  Edward N. Wilson*, Washington University
  (931-53-313)
- 3:45 p.m.
  The Length Spectrum of Riemannian Two-Step Nilmanifolds.
  Maura B Mast*, University of Northern Iowa
  (931-58-236)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Riemannian foliations and eigenvalue comparison.
  Jeffrey M. Lee*, Texas Tech University
  Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University
  (931-53-224)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Isoperimetric Problem for the curl operator.
  Jason Cantarella, University of Pennsylvania
  Dennis DeTurck, University of Pennsylvania
  Herman Gluck, University of Pennsylvania
  Mikhail Teytel*, University of Pennsylvania
  (931-46-95)
- 5:15 p.m.
  Scattering theory and hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  David Borthwick*, Emory University
  (931-58-190)

Saturday March 21, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, III
Room 3, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech University gornet@math.ttu.edu
Peter Anton Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Spectral asymptotics for compactly supported perturbations of the Laplacian on Euclidian space.
  Tanya J. Christiansen*, University of Missouri
  (931-35-142)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Spectral Clustering of the Dirac Operator on Spheres.
  Mary R Sandoval*, Purdue University
  (931-58-162)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Spectral geometry of G-manifolds and foliations.
  Ken Richardson*, Texas Christian University
  (931-58-154)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Asymptotic estimates of Husimi distributions centered near critical points.
  Mariah Birgen*, Wartburg College
  (931-58-312)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Asymptotics of powers of positive line bundles over Kahler manifolds.
  Steve Zelditch, IV*, Johns Hopkins University
  (931-32-164)

Saturday March 21, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, IV
Room 3, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech University gornet@math.ttu.edu
Peter Anton Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu
- 2:45 p.m.
  Sharp constant in the Trudinger-Moser- Adam inequality .
  Sun-Yung A. Chang*, UCLA
  (931-53-240)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Hausdorff dimension and limits of Kleinian groups.
  Richard D. Canary, University of Michigan
  Edward C. Taylor*, University of Kentucky
  (931-58-27)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Length spectra of graphs.
  Gregory T Quenell*, Oberlin College
  (931-05-173)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Hill's Equation for a Regular Graph.
  Robert C. Carlson*, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
  (931-34-63)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Spectral Theory of Toeplitz Operators on Manifolds.
  Victor W. Guillemin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Kate Okikiolu*, University of California, San Diego
  (931-47-345)

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