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2001 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Williamstown, MA, October 13-14, 2001
Meeting #971

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

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Special Session on Geometry and Topology of the Universe

• Saturday October 13, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Topology of the Universe, I
  Room 123 (Wege Auditorium), Thompson Chemistry Lab
  Organizers:
  Colin C. Adams, Williams College Colin.Adams@williams.edu
  Glenn Starkmann, Case Western Reserve University starkman@theory5.PHYS.CWRU.Edu
  Jeffrey R. Weeks, Canton, New York weeks@northnet.org
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Elementary Introduction to Cosmic Crystallography.
    Jean-Pierre Luminet*, Paris Observatory, France
    (971-83-51)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Elementary Introduction to Cosmic Topology and the Microwave Background.
    Tarun Souradeep*, I.U.C.A.A., Pune, India
    (971-85-137)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Elementary Introduction to Brane Cosmology.
    Nima Arkani-Hamed*, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
    (971-85-160)
• Saturday October 13, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Topology of the Universe, II
  Room 123 (Wege Auditorium), Thompson Chemistry Lab
  Organizers:
  Colin C. Adams, Williams College Colin.Adams@williams.edu
  Glenn Starkmann, Case Western Reserve University starkman@theory5.PHYS.CWRU.Edu
  Jeffrey R. Weeks, Canton, New York weeks@northnet.org
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Elementary Introduction to the Geometry of Manifolds.
    John G Ratcliffe*, Vanderbilt University
    (971-53-75)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Elementary Introduction to Spin Structures.
    Roger Penrose*, Oxford University
    (971-81-184)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Elementary Introduction to the Laplace Operator and its Generalizations.
    Sigurdur Helgason*, MIT
    (971-53-58)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Elementary Introduction to Topological Defects.
    Jean-Philippe Uzan*, Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Orsay, France
    (971-85-35)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    A guided tour of spherical 3-manifolds.
    Jeffrey R. Weeks*, Canton NY
    (971-57-13)
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Topological lensing in spherical spaces.
    Roland Lehoucq*, CEA Saclay, Service d'astrophysique
    (971-85-42)
• Sunday October 14, 2001, 8:15 a.m.-10:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Topology of the Universe, III
  Room 123 (Wege Auditorium), Thompson Chemistry Lab
  Organizers:
  Colin C. Adams, Williams College Colin.Adams@williams.edu
  Glenn Starkmann, Case Western Reserve University starkman@theory5.PHYS.CWRU.Edu
  Jeffrey R. Weeks, Canton, New York weeks@northnet.org
  

  • 8:15 a.m.
    Quest for a self-tuning brane-world solution to the cosmological constant problem.
    James M Cline*, McGill University
    (971-83-116)
  • 8:35 a.m.
    Inflationary Models - Basic Theory, Observational Implications and Tests.
    Marek Demianski*, Warsaw University
    (971-85-152)
  • 8:55 a.m.
    Cosmic Crystallographic Methods vs. Observational Uncertainties.
    Jean-Pierre Luminet*, Paris Observatory
    (971-83-52)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Measuring Statistical isotropy of the Cosmic Microwave background.
    Tarun Souradeep*, I.U.C.A.A.
    (971-85-138)
  • 9:35 a.m.
    Implementing the matched circle search with MAP data.
    Neil J Cornish*, Montana State University
    (971-51-171)
  • 9:55 a.m.
    Compact Hyperbolic Manifolds as Extra Spatial Dimensions.
    Mark Trodden*, Syracuse University
    (971-83-82)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Cosmology of Compact Hyperbolic Extra Dimensions.
    Glenn D. Starkman*, Case Western Reserve University
    Mark Trodden, Syracuse University
    Dejan Stojkovic, University of Alberta
    (971-83-102)
  • 10:35 a.m.
    (De)Constructing Dimensions.
    Nima Arkani-Hamed*, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
    (971-85-161)

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