AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:30

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

Friday October 5, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Variational Problems for Free Surface Interfaces, I
Room 351, Metro Complex
Organizers:
John E. McCuan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Thomas I. Vogel, Texas A\&M University tvogel@math.tamu.edu
Henry C. Wente, University of Toledo hwente@math.utoledo.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Equilibrium Configurations for a Floating Drop.
  David Siegel*, University of Waterloo
  Alan Elcrat, Wichita State University
  Robert Neel, Harvard University
  (970-76-90)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Complete embedded CMC surfaces with many coplanar ends.
  John M Sullivan*, University of Illinois
  (970-53-217)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Local Energy Minimality of Capillary Surfaces in the Presence of Symmetry.
  Thomas I Vogel*, Texas A&M University
  (970-53-125)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion

Saturday October 6, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Variational Problems for Free Surface Interfaces, II
Room 351, Metro Complex
Organizers:
John E. McCuan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Thomas I. Vogel, Texas A\&M University tvogel@math.tamu.edu
Henry C. Wente, University of Toledo hwente@math.utoledo.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Bifurcation Phenomena for Capillary Surfaces and Exotic Containers.
  Henry C Wente*, University of Toledo
  (970-49-179)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Regularity at the free boundary for solutions of systems of elliptic equations in divergence form.
  Joseph F Grotowski*, Universit\"at Erlangen-N\"urnberg
  (970-35-173)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discontinuous reversal of comparison relations for capillary surfaces.
  Robert Finn*, Stanford University
  A. A. Kosmodem'yanskii, Jr., Moscow Railroad University
  (970-76-96)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Soap bubbles and Riemann surfaces.
  Robert B Kusner*, University of Massachusetts
  (970-53-66)

Saturday October 6, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Variational Problems for Free Surface Interfaces, iII
Room 351, Metro Complex
Organizers:
John E. McCuan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Thomas I. Vogel, Texas A\&M University tvogel@math.tamu.edu
Henry C. Wente, University of Toledo hwente@math.utoledo.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Big MEMS.
  John McCuan*, Georgia Tech
  John Pelesko, Georgia Tech
  (970-35-183)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Locally convex hypersurfaces of vanishing Gauss curvature.
  Bo Guan*, University of Tennessee
  Joel Spruck, Johns Hopkins University
  (970-53-215)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Recovering surfaces from the restoring force.
  George I Kamberov*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  Gerda L Kamberov, Hofstra University
  (970-53-211)

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