AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:39

Associate secretaries:
William A Harris, Jr, AMS wharris@math.usc.edu

Saturday April 19, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Mechanics, I
Room 106, Strand Agricultural Hall
Organizers:
Judith M. Arms, University of Washington arms@math.washington.edu
John V. Leahy, University of Oregon leahy@math.uoregon.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Minimal Legendrian Tangles
  Lisa M. Traynor*, Bryn Mawr College
  (921-53-88)
- 8:25 a.m.
  Moduli Spaces of stable Polygons and Symplectic Structures on $\overline{\cal M}_{0,n}$
  Yi Hu*, University of California, Berkeley
  (921-57-144)
- 8:50 a.m.
  Cohomology of Jacobi Algebras
  Ann M. Ritchey*, University of Oregon
  (921-58-161)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Equivariant moment maps for Poisson Lie groups
  Viktor L. Ginzburg*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (921-58-115)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Spectral geometry of Hopf fibrations
  Peter B. Gilkey, University of Oregon
  John V. Leahy*, University of Oregon
  Jeong-Hyeong Park,
  (921-58-156)
- 10:05 a.m.
  Integrable convex billiard tables and conjugate points
  Edoh Y. Amiran*, Western Washington University
  (921-58-47)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Stacked Lagrange tops and multi-component systems
  Debra K Lewis*, University of California at Santa Cruz
  (921-70-120)

Saturday April 19, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Mechanics, II
Room 106, Strand Agricultural Hall
Organizers:
Judith M. Arms, University of Washington arms@math.washington.edu
John V. Leahy, University of Oregon leahy@math.uoregon.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Lie algebraic generalization of the Mumford system, its symmetries and its multi-Hamiltonian structure
  Pol Vanhaecke*, University of California, Davis
  Marco Pedroni, Universita di Genova, Italy
  (921-58-121)
- 3:25 p.m.
  On Quantizing $T^*\!S^1$
  Mark J. Gotay*, University of Hawai`i
  (921-81-62)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Spin$^c$ quantization
  Ana Canas da Silva*, University of California, Berkeley and Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
  Yael Karshon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  Susan Tolman, Princeton University
  (921-53-106)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Some new results in the reduction of Hamiltonian systems withsymmetry.
  Juan-Pablo Ortega*, University of California-Santa Cruz
  (921-70-56)
- 4:40 p.m.
  On the stability of relative equilibria
  Eugene M Lerman*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (921-58-33)
- 5:05 p.m.
  Symmetry Reduction of Variational Bicomplexes and the Principleof Symmetric Criticality.
  Ian M. Anderson*, Utah State University
  Mark E. Fels, University of Minnesota
  (921-58-111)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The mechanical connection and the complexified group action
  Judith M. Arms*, University of Washington
  (921-70-149)

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