AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:29

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

Saturday April 28, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ricci Curvature and Related Topics, I
Room 212, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
George I. Kamberov, Stevens Institute of Technology gkambero@stevens-tech.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Megan M. Kerr, Wellesley College mkerr@wellesley.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geodesics and Ricci Curvature.
  Zhongmin Shen*, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis
  (966-53-93)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Ricci Flow on non compact manifolds.
  Albert Chau*, Columbia University
  (966-53-122)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Boundaries of zero scalar curvature in the AdS/CFT Correspondence.
  Mingliang Cai*, University of Miami
  Greg Galloway, University of Miami
  (966-53-200)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A splitting theorem for K\"ahler manifolds with constant eigenvalues of the Ricci tensor.
  Vestislav Apostolov, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
  Tedi C Draghici*, Florida International University
  Andrei Moroianu, CMAT, Ecole Polytechnique
  (966-53-53)

Saturday April 28, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ricci Curvature and Related Topics, II
Room 212, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
George I. Kamberov, Stevens Institute of Technology gkambero@stevens-tech.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Megan M. Kerr, Wellesley College mkerr@wellesley.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Ricci and Mean curvature -- from combinatorial to smooth.
  Igor Rivin*, University of Manchester and Temple University
  Jean-Marc Schlenker, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
  (966-53-128)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Symplectic connections of Ricci-type.
  Simone Gutt*, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
  (966-53-139)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 4:00 p.m.
  Solutions of the Maxwell-Einstein Equations.
  Nina Zipser*, MIT
  (966-53-81)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Conformally invariant differential equations and the curvature tensor of a 4-manifold.
  Paul Yang*, Institute for Advanced Study and Univ. of Southern California
  (966-53-202)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ricci Curvature and Related Topics, III
Room 212, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
George I. Kamberov, Stevens Institute of Technology gkambero@stevens-tech.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Megan M. Kerr, Wellesley College mkerr@wellesley.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Isospectral metrics on spheres and other manifolds.
  Carolyn S Gordon*, Dartmouth College
  (966-58-127)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Conditions for nonnegative curvature on vector bundles and sphere bundles.
  Kristopher R Tapp*, SUNY Stony Brook
  (966-53-88)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Metrics of positive Ricci curvature on vector bundles over nilmanifolds.
  Igor Belegradek*, California Institute of Technology
  Guofang Wei, University of California Santa Barbara
  (966-53-36)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Polar actions.
  Andreas M Kollross*, Universitaet Augsburg
  (966-53-137)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Ricci Curvature and Related Topics, IV
Room 212, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
George I. Kamberov, Stevens Institute of Technology gkambero@stevens-tech.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Megan M. Kerr, Wellesley College mkerr@wellesley.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Sasakian-Einstein Geometry and Algebraic Geometry.
  Charles P Boyer*, University of New Mexico
  (966-53-107)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Minimal Submanifolds of K\"{a}hler-Einstein Manifolds.
  Isabel M.C. Salavessa*, Instituto Superior Tecnico
  (966-53-109)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Affine Spheres and K\"ahler-Einstein Metrics.
  John C Loftin*, Columbia University
  (966-53-92)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Ricci Curvature and Seiberg-Witten Theory.
  Claude R LeBrun*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (966-53-43)

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