AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:10

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday April 8, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, I
Room 155, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame smyth.1@nd.edu
Frederico Xavier, University of Notre Dame xavier.1@nd.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Behavior of eigenfunctions near the ideal boundary of hyperbolic space.
  Harold G Donnelly*, Purdue University
  (953-58-69)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Generalized Harnacks for Ricci flow on manifolds with positive curvature operator.
  Bennett Chow*, University of Minnesota
  Dan Knopf, University of Wisconsin
  (953-58-153)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dimension of the space of polynomial growth harmonic functions.
  Peter Li, University of California, Irvine
  Jiaping Wang*, University of Minnesota
  (953-58-244)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Local rigidity of certain classes of almost K\"ahler 4-manifolds.
  Vestislav Apostolov, IHES, France
  John Armstrong, Oxford, UK
  Tedi Draghici*, Northeastern Illinois University, USA
  (953-53-111)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A differential geometric construction of the Thom class.
  Ji-Ping Sha*, Indiana University at Bloomington
  (953-53-237)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Forms from pull-backs, currents from projections.
  Bruce Solomon*, Indiana University
  (953-44-230)

Saturday April 8, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, II
Room 155, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame smyth.1@nd.edu
Frederico Xavier, University of Notre Dame xavier.1@nd.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Cohomogeneity One Einstein Equations and Integrability.
  Andrew Dancer, Oxford University
  McKenzie Y Wang*, McMaster University
  (953-53-196)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Vector Fields on Flows of Certain Closed 3-Manifolds and Their Confoliations.
  Richard H. Escobales, Jr.*, Canisius College
  (953-53-15)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The role played by a special family of Finsler surfaces.
  David Bao*, University of Houston
  (953-53-184)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Projectively Related Einstein Metrics in Riemann-Finsler Geometry.
  Zhongmin Shen*, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis
  (953-53-216)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Local Moduli Space.
  Gang Liu*, University of California Los Angeles
  (953-53-352)

Sunday April 9, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, I
Room 155, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame smyth.1@nd.edu
Frederico Xavier, University of Notre Dame xavier.1@nd.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Gradient comparison theorems for harmonic functions on Riemannian manifolds.
  Albert Borbely*, Kuwait University, Kuwait
  (953-53-226)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Sharp growth rate for generalized solutions evolving by mean curvature plus a forcing term.
  Yonghoi Koo*, Instituto Superior Tecnico
  Robert Gulliver, University of Minnesota
  (953-35-239)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The volume-preserving mean curvature flow on surfaces.
  Nicholas Alikakos, University of Athens (Greece)
  Alex Freire*, University of Tennessee
  (953-53-258)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Curvature bounds for warped products of metric spaces.
  Stephanie B. Alexander*, UIUC
  Richard L. Bishop, UIUC
  (953-53-348)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Spines and homology of thin Riemannian manifolds with boundary.
  Stephanie B. Alexander, UIUC
  Richard L. Bishop*, UIUC
  (953-53-347)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Kodaira dimensions and hyperbolicity of nonpositively curved Kahler manifolds.
  Fangyang Zheng*, ohio state university
  (953-53-70)

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