AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:48

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

Saturday April 4, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 6B, TUCC
Organizers:
Yanyan Li, Rutgers University yyli@math.rutgers.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Boundary value problems at infinity for surfaces of constant mean curvature in Hyperbolic space.
  Joel Spruck*, Johns Hopkins University
  (933-35-105)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Function theory and minimal surfaces.
  William P. Minicozzi, II*, Johns Hopkins University
  Tobias H. Colding, NYU
  (933-53-122)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Extremal Hermitian metrics in Riemann surface and generalization of the uniformization theorem to surface with boundary.
  xiuxiong Chen*, Stanford University
  (933-58-190)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Harmonic Maps on Complete Manifolds.
  Wenxiong Chen*, Southwest Missouri State University
  Congming Li, University of Colorado
  (933-35-110)

Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 6B, TUCC
Organizers:
Yanyan Li, Rutgers University yyli@math.rutgers.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Prescribing scalar curvature on n-spheres.
  Congming Li*, Univ. of Colorado
  (933-35-144)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Asymptotic behavior for positive solutions to $\Delta_gu = u^q + Su$ with prescribed singularities.
  David L Finn*, Merrimack College
  (933-35-10)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Double vortex-condensates in the Chern-Simons-Higgs theory.
  Gabriella Tarantello*, Universit\'a di Roma "Tor Vergata"
  (933-35-79)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Applications of a minmax principle.
  Alfonso Castro*, University of North Texas
  (933-35-62)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Diffusion vs. cross-diffusion: an elliptic approach.
  Yuan Lou*, University of Chicago
  Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota
  (933-35-109)

Sunday April 5, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, III
Room 6B, TUCC
Organizers:
Yanyan Li, Rutgers University yyli@math.rutgers.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Optimal Transportation of Manifolds and Shape Recognition.
  Wilfrid Gangbo, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Robert J McCann*, Brown University
  (933-49-112)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Singularly Perturbed Elliptic Partial Differential Equation with an Almost Periodic Term .
  Greg S Spradlin*, U. California-Davis
  (933-35-200)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Spike-layered Solutions of Singularly Perturbed Elliptic Problems in a Degenerate Setting.
  Manuel del Pino, Universidad de Chile
  Patricio Felmer*, Universidad de Chile
  (933-35-92)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Nonradial Solutions of Semilinear Elliptic Equations in ${\bf R}^{N}$.
  Joseph A. Iaia*, University of North Texas
  (933-35-51)

Sunday April 5, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, IV
Room 6B, TUCC
Organizers:
Yanyan Li, Rutgers University yyli@math.rutgers.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A New Topological Invariant in Abelian Gauge Theory.
  Lesley M Sibner*, Polyrechnic University
  Robert J Sibner, CUNY,Brooklyn College
  Yisong Yang, Polytechnic University
  (933-53-48)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Existence results of conformal metrics with constant scalar curvature and constant boundary mean curvature.
  Zheng-Chao Han*, Rutgers University
  YanYan Li, Rutgers University
  (933-53-226)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Decay Estimates for Porous Medium Systems.
  Zhengfang Zhou*, Michigan State University
  Hongjun Yuan, Jilin University, China
  (933-35-214)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Symmetry of solutions of relativistic Thomas-Fermiequations.
  Michael K-H Kiessling*, Dept. Math., Rutgers U., Piscataway, NJ 08854
  (933-35-209)

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