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 Methods in Mathematical Physics, I
Room 109, Strand Agricultural Hall
Organizers:
Juha Pohjanpelto, Oregon State University juha@math.orst.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Some Global Properties of Vacuum Spacetimes with $U(1)xU(1)$Isometry
  James A. Isenberg*, University of Oregon
  (921-83-171)
- 8:25 a.m.
  Differential Invariants and Moving Frames
  Mark E. Fels*, University of Minnesota
  Peter J. Olver, University of Minnesota
  (921-58-86)
- 8:50 a.m.
  Conservation laws of hyperbolic Monge-Ampere systems
  Lucas Hsu*, University of Arizona
  (921-53-137)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Characteristic Lagrangians and Local Obstructions to GlobalExistence Problems in Differential Geometry
  Ian M. Anderson*, Utah State University
  Mark E. Fels, University of Minnesota
  (921-58-112)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Direct construction of conservation laws from field equations
  Stephen C Anco, University of British Columbia
  George W Bluman*, University of British Columbia
  (921-35-73)
- 10:05 a.m.
  The multi-dimensional Darboux transformation.
  Niky Kamran*, McGill University
  (921-58-162)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Symmetries, conservation laws, and variational principles forvector field theories
  Ian M. Anderson, Utah State University
  Juha Pohjanpelto*, Oregon State University
  (921-58-104)

Saturday April 19, 1997, 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, II
Room 109, Strand Agricultural Hall
Organizers:
Juha Pohjanpelto, Oregon State University juha@math.orst.edu
- 4:15 p.m.
  Continuum Solitons and Matrix Integrals
  Motohico Mulase*, University of California, Davis
  (921-58-124)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Particle motion in classical field theories
  David M Stuart*, IHES, Le Bois Marie, France
  (921-35-168)
- 5:05 p.m.
  Oscillatory phenomena and complex dimensions of fractal strings, with applications to the critical zeros of the Riemann zeta-function
  Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California, Riverside
  (921-58-172)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Asymptotic conservation laws in classical field theory
  Charles Torre*, Utah State University.
  (921-83-174)
- 5:55 p.m.
  Degenerate solutions of general relativity from 2-dimensional topological field theory
  John C. Baez*, University of California, Riverside
  (921-83-49)

Sunday April 20, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, III
Room 109, Strand Agricultural Hall
Organizers:
Juha Pohjanpelto, Oregon State University juha@math.orst.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The braid group, periodic orbits, and the planar N-body problem
  Richard W. Montgomery*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (921-58-31)
- 8:25 a.m.
  Group Drift over the Ergodic Domains and Attractors
  Serge Preston*, Portland State University, Portland, OR
  (921-70-122)
- 8:50 a.m.
  Reduction by stages
  Tudor S Ratiu*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (921-58-158)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems and dynamics in magnetic fields
  Viktor L. Ginzburg*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (921-58-114)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Hamiltonian reduction of Einstein's equations of general relativity
  Arthur E. Fischer*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Vincent Moncrief, Yale University
  (921-83-166)
- 10:05 a.m.
  A Conformal Mapping Problem Arising in String Theory.
  Jeff Rabin*, University of California, San Diego.
  (921-81-155)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Homological vector fields and their applications
  Arkady Vaintrob*, New Mexico State University and Brigham Young University
  (921-58-46)

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