AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:51

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Saturday November 14, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry and Its Applications, I
Room 402, Mathematics
Organizers:
Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California xdai@math.usc.edu
Leonid Friedlander, University of Arizona friedlan@math.arizona.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Singular Sturm-Liouville theory.
  Rafe Mazzeo*, Stanford University
  Robert McOwen, Northeastern University
  (938-58-19)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Analytic torsion and R-torsion for manifolds with boundary.
  Xianzhe Dai*, UCSB and USC
  Hao Fang, Princeton University
  (938-58-121)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Spectrum of complete noncompact manifolds.
  Jiaping Wang*, Cornell University
  (938-58-15)

Saturday November 14, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry and Its Applications, II
Room 402, Mathematics
Organizers:
Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California xdai@math.usc.edu
Leonid Friedlander, University of Arizona friedlan@math.arizona.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Inverse Scattering Problems in Two-dimensional Anisotropic Media .
  Gregory Eskin*, UCLA
  James V Ralston, UCLA
  (938-35-20)
- 3:40 p.m.
  An invariant of the smooth structure related to the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian.
  Leonid Friedlander*, University of Arizona
  Nikolai Nadirashvili, University of Chicago
  (938-35-99)
- 4:20 p.m.
  On the small-scale mass concentration of modes .
  John A Toth*, McGill University
  (938-35-12)

Sunday November 15, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry and Its Applications, III
Room 402, Mathematics
Organizers:
Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California xdai@math.usc.edu
Leonid Friedlander, University of Arizona friedlan@math.arizona.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Berstein-type Theorem for Lagrangian Stationary Surfaces .
  Chikako Mese*, University of Southern California
  (938-53-16)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Poisson problems, diffusions, and comparison theorems for complete Riemannian manifolds.
  Patrick T McDonald*, New College of USF
  (938-58-111)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Ginzburg-Landau vortice and Mandelstam Diagram.
  Jie Qing*, UCSC
  (938-58-17)

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