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, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Analysis in Carnot Carath\'eodory Spaces, I
Room 217, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Scott Pauls, Rice University pauls@math.rice.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Regularity near the characteristic set in the non-linear Dirichlet problem and conformal geometry of sub-laplacians.
  Nicola Garofalo, Purdue University
  Dimiter N Vassilev*, Purdue University
  (953-35-31)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Legendrian Energy Minimizers.
  Luca Capogna*, University of Arkansas
  Fang-Hua Lin, Courant Institute
  (953-49-201)

Saturday April 8, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Analysis in Carnot Carath\'eodory Spaces, II
Room 217, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Scott Pauls, Rice University pauls@math.rice.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Surface measures in some Carnot-Carath\'eodory Spaces.
  Francesco Serra Cassano*, University of Trento
  Roberto Monti, University of Trento
  (953-49-173)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A Notion of Rectifiability Modelled on Carnot Groups.
  Scott D Pauls*, Rice University
  (953-53-105)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Differentiability and Area formula on Stratified Nilpotent Lie groups.
  Valentino Magnani*, Scuola Normale Superiore
  (953-28-155)

Sunday April 9, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Analysis in Carnot Carath\'eodory Spaces, III
Room 217, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Scott Pauls, Rice University pauls@math.rice.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Singularity of the Carnot-Caratheodory spheres.
  Monique Chyba*, Princeton University
  (953-49-62)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Fully Nonlinear Equations on the Heisenberg Group.
  Juan J Manfredi*, University of Pittsburgh
  (953-35-146)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On Absolute Minimizing Lipschitz Extensions.
  Thomas J Bieske*, University of Arkansas
  (953-35-250)

Sunday April 9, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Analysis in Carnot Carath\'eodory Spaces, IV
Room 217, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Scott Pauls, Rice University pauls@math.rice.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A 20 minute tour through the zoo of distributions.
  Richard Montgomery*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (953-53-128)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Potential theory and pointwise behavior of Sobolev functions on Carnot groups.
  Guozhen Lu*, Wright State University
  (953-31-316)

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