AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:27

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday March 16, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, I
Room 302, Gambrell Hall
Organizers:
Mohammad Ghomi, University of South Carolina, Columbia ghomi@math.sc.edu
Ralph E. Howard, University of South Carolina, Columbia howard@math.sc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Integrable Geometric Evolution Equations for Curves.
  Thomas A. Ivey*, College of Charleston
  (963-53-13)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Evolving piecewise linear convex curves in the plane.
  Alina Stancu*, Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
  (963-53-149)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Constructing Knot Isotopies with Geometric Constraints Using Holonomic Space Curves.
  Eddie Fuller*, Duke University
  (963-53-140)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A notion of criticality for ropelength.
  Joseph H Fu*, University of Georgia
  (963-49-196)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Ropelength, thickness and conformal modulus of links.
  Rob Kusner*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  (963-53-192)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Many knot energies are minimized by circles.
  Aaron Abrams, University of Georgia
  Jason H Cantarella*, University of Georgia
  Joseph Fu, University of Georgia
  Mohammad Ghomi, University of South Carolina
  Ralph Howard, University of South Carolina
  (963-53-216)

Saturday March 17, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, II
Room 302, Gambrell Hall
Organizers:
Mohammad Ghomi, University of South Carolina, Columbia ghomi@math.sc.edu
Ralph E. Howard, University of South Carolina, Columbia howard@math.sc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Skew Loops and Quadric Surfaces.
  Mohammad Ghomi*, University of South Carolina
  Bruce Solomon, Indiana University
  (963-53-179)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Explicit Solutions to the H-Surface Equation on Tori.
  Henry C Wente*, The University of Toledo
  (963-53-174)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Convex Hull Property and Topology of Hypersurfaces with Nonnegative Curvature.
  Stephanie Alexander*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Mohammad Ghomi, University of South Carolina
  (963-53-224)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Second Hull of a Knotted Curve.
  John M Sullivan*, University of Illinois
  Jason Cantarella, Univ. of Georgia
  Rob Kusner, UMass/Amherst
  Greg Kuperberg, UC Davis
  (963-51-184)

Saturday March 17, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, III
Room 302, Gambrell Hall
Organizers:
Mohammad Ghomi, University of South Carolina, Columbia ghomi@math.sc.edu
Ralph E. Howard, University of South Carolina, Columbia howard@math.sc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Nonpositively curved surfaces in Euclidean Space.
  Andrejs E Treibergs*, University of Utah
  (963-53-30)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Isometric immersions of the Euclidean plane into Euclidean 4-space.
  Joel L Weiner*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  (963-53-128)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Smooth minimal surfaces in the Heisenberg group.
  Scott D Pauls*, Rice University
  (963-53-16)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the finite time singularities of the heat flow for harmonic maps from surfaces.
  Jie Qing*, UCSC
  (963-53-145)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Continua of singular minimal graphs.
  John McCuan*, Georgia Tech
  (963-53-150)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Area-minimizing Surfaces in Cones.
  Frank Morgan*, Williams College
  (963-49-181)

Sunday March 18, 2001, 9:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, IV
Room 302, Gambrell Hall
Organizers:
Mohammad Ghomi, University of South Carolina, Columbia ghomi@math.sc.edu
Ralph E. Howard, University of South Carolina, Columbia howard@math.sc.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Unfoldings of Space Curves.
  Mohammad Ghomi, University of South Carolina
  Ralph Howard*, University of South Carolina
  (963-53-133)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Minimal Varieties and p-harmonic maps.
  Shihshu Walter Wei*, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma
  (963-53-193)
- 10:30 a.m.
  An Analysis of Completely-Positive Trace-Preserving Maps on $\mathcal{M}_2$.
  Mary Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  Stanislaw Szarek, Case Western Reserve University
  Elisabeth M Werner*, Case Western Reserve University
  (963-81-132)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Spines and Topology of Thin Riemannian 3-Manifolds.
  Stephanie B Alexander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Richard L Bishop*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (963-53-222)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Diffeomorphisms of the Circle and Hyperbolic Curvature.
  David A Singer*, Case Western Reserve University
  (963-53-50)

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