AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:13

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

Saturday November 4, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Riemannian Manifolds and Their Limit Spaces, I
Room 405, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University rong@math.rutgers.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
- 9:00 a.m.
  A class of generalized convex functions and its relation to warped products.
  Stephanie B Alexander*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Richard L. Bishop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (959-53-164)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Differential Forms, Spinors and Bounded Curvature Collapse.
  John Lott*, University of Michigan
  (959-58-118)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Sheaf Perspective on $L^2$ Harmonic Forms.
  Eugenie Hunsicker*, Lawrence University
  Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
  (959-53-263)

Saturday November 4, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Riemannian Manifolds and Their Limit Spaces, II
Room 405, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University rong@math.rutgers.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
- 3:00 p.m.
  K\"ahler parabolicity and the Euler number of compact manifolds of non-positive sectional curvature.
  Jianguo Cao*, University of Notre Dame
  (959-53-114)
- 3:45 p.m.
  The second twisted Betti number and the strong convergence of collapsing Riemannian manifolds.
  Fuquan Fang*, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
  (959-53-218)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Pushing manifolds together in Gromov-Hausdorff space.
  Steven C Ferry*, Rutgers University
  Alexander N Dranishnikov, Pennsylvania State University
  (959-57-281)
- 5:15 p.m.
  Collapsing $4$-manifolds under a lower curvature bound.
  Takao Yamaguchi*, Kyushu University
  (959-53-292)

Sunday November 5, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Riemannian Manifolds and Their Limit Spaces, III
Room 405, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University rong@math.rutgers.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
- 9:00 a.m.
  Differentiability of Lipschitz functions on metric measure spaces.
  Jeff Cheeger*, Courant Institute, NYU
  (959-58-277)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Hausdorff Convergence and Universal Covers.
  Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY
  Guofang Wei*, UCSB
  (959-53-146)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On fundamental groups of manifolds of nonnegative curvature.
  Burkhard Wilking*, University of Pennsylvania
  (959-53-239)

Sunday November 5, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Riemannian Manifolds and Their Limit Spaces, IV
Room 405, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University rong@math.rutgers.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
- 3:00 p.m.
  Curvature, momentum and variance.
  Jyh-Yang Wu*, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
  (959-58-161)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 4:30 p.m.
  A deformation of noncompact Einstein solvmanifolds.
  Megan M Kerr*, Wellesley College
  (959-53-222)
- 5:15 p.m.
  A variational approach for homogeneous Einstein metrics.
  Wolfgang Ziller*, University of Pennsylvania
  Christoph Boehm, Universitaet Kiel
  McKenzie Wang, McMaster University
  (959-53-121)

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