AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

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

Friday September 21, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Applications, I
BE 0188, Baker Systems Engineering (BE)
Organizers:
Andrzej Derdzinski, Ohio State University andrzej@math.ohio-state.edu
Fangyang Zheng, Ohio State University zheng@math.ohio-state.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Circular Billiard Tables, Conjugate Loci, and a Cardioid.
  Richard L Bishop*, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (969-53-159)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Generalized Sasaki Distance and Metric Characterization of Riemannian Spaces.
  Igor G Nikolaev*, University of Illinois at U--C
  (969-53-101)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Computational aspects of infinite type integrable surfaces.
  Ivan C Sterling*, St Mary's College of Maryland
  (969-53-137)

Saturday September 22, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Applications, II
BE 0188, Baker Systems Engineering (BE)
Organizers:
Andrzej Derdzinski, Ohio State University andrzej@math.ohio-state.edu
Fangyang Zheng, Ohio State University zheng@math.ohio-state.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Lagrangian Helicoids.
  David E Blair*, Michigan State University
  (969-53-72)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The $\mathcal{S}^{2}\times\mathcal{S}^{1}$ singularity of the Ricci flow.
  Tom Ilmanen, ETH - Z\"urich
  Dan Knopf*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  (969-53-116)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Compactifications of hermitian symmetric spaces and the moment map.
  Lizhen Ji*, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (969-53-80)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dependence of spectral invariants on geometric moduli.
  Chris M Judge*, Indiana University
  (969-53-103)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Virasoro conjecture for Gromov-Witten Invariants.
  Xiaobo Liu*, University of Notre Dame
  (969-53-54)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Skew loops and quadric hypersurfaces.
  Bruce Solomon*, Indiana University
  Mohammad Ghomi, University of South Carolina
  Serge Tabachnikov, Penn State University
  (969-53-127)

Saturday September 22, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Applications, III
BE 0188, Baker Systems Engineering (BE)
Organizers:
Andrzej Derdzinski, Ohio State University andrzej@math.ohio-state.edu
Fangyang Zheng, Ohio State University zheng@math.ohio-state.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Rigidity of differentiable structures of line arrangements in $CP^2$.
  Stephen S. Yau*, UIC
  (969-14-253)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Classification of flat surfaces with constant Kaehler angle in complex Euclidean plane.
  Bang-Yen Chen*, Michigan State University
  (969-53-30)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the Existence of Focal Points near Closed Geodesics on Surfaces.
  Marlies Gerber*, Indiana University
  (969-53-128)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Dirichlet Problem at Infinity for Open Manifolds with Big Ends.
  Jianguo Cao*, Univerisity of Notre Dame
  (969-53-24)

Sunday September 23, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Applications, IV
BE 0188, Baker Systems Engineering (BE)
Organizers:
Andrzej Derdzinski, Ohio State University andrzej@math.ohio-state.edu
Fangyang Zheng, Ohio State University zheng@math.ohio-state.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Harmonic functions on manifolds of nonnegative Ricci curvature.
  Harold G Donnelly*, Purdue University
  (969-58-23)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Regularity of holomorphic and harmonic functions.
  Peter Li, University of California, Irvine
  Jiaping Wang*, University of Minnesota
  (969-58-61)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Manifolds with quadratic curvature decay.
  John W Lott*, University of Michigan
  (969-53-21)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Compact Homogeneous Spaces with an Exponential Growth of Geodesics Joining Two Points.
  Gabriel P Paternain, Cambridge University
  Leo T Butler*, Northwestern University
  (969-58-143)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Stable ergodicity and frame flows.
  Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
  (969-37-243)

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