AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:58

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

Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Optimization Problems in Geometry, I
Room 447, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Robert Kusner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst kusner@math.umass.edu
John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana jms@math.uiuc.edu
- 8:45 a.m.
  A general variational method for crystalline triple junction motion.
  Jean E. Taylor*, Rutgers University
  (941-53-75)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discrete Minimal Surfaces on Non-Conforming Triangulations.
  Konrad Polthier*, Technical University Berlin
  (941-53-322)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Conjectured minimal surfaces derived from Hamiltonian polyhedra in the cubic lattice.
  Chaim Goodman-Strauss*, Univ. Arkansas
  (941-53-169)

Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Optimization Problems in Geometry, II
Room 447, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Robert Kusner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst kusner@math.umass.edu
John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana jms@math.uiuc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Instability of the wet cube cone soap film.
  Kenneth A. Brakke*, Susquehanna University
  (941-49-77)
- 3:45 p.m.
  On the Free Boundary Variational Problem for Minimal Disks.
  Ailana M. Fraser*, New York University
  (941-53-276)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Willmore Energy of Quaternionic Line Bundles.
  George I. Kamberov*, Washington University
  (941-58-294)
- 5:15 p.m.
  Connected sums of constant mean curvature surfaces in Euclidean 3-space.
  Frank Pacard*, ENS Cachan
  (941-53-357)

Sunday March 21, 1999, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Optimization Problems in Geometry, III
Room 447, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Robert Kusner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst kusner@math.umass.edu
John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana jms@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Optimal Contact Structures.
  Jason H. Cantarella*, University of Pennsylvania
  (941-51-353)
- 10:15 a.m.
  The optimal domains with least-perimeter and given area in surfaces of variable curvature .
  Jianguo Cao*, University of Notre Dame
  (941-53-82)

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