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, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of Partial Differential Equations in Geometric Analysis, I
Room 207, Metro Complex
Organizers:
Bo Guan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville guan@math.utk.edu
Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky cywang@ms.uky.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Polyhedra with Area-Constrained Skeleta.
  Scott B Berger, Rice University
  Robert M Hardt*, Rice University
  (970-49-227)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Spectral and Scattering Theory for the Sub-Laplacian on the Heisenberg Group.
  Peter A Perry*, University of Kentucky
  (970-35-175)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The normalized mean curvature flow.
  Nicholas D Alikakos, University of Athens
  Alex Freire*, University of Tennessee
  (970-35-187)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some comments on Taylor's problem.
  John McCuan*, Georgia Tech
  (970-35-184)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Constructing minimal surfaces using the support function.
  Frank E Baginski*, The George Washington University
  (970-53-22)

Friday October 5, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Partial Differential Equations in Geometric Analysis, II
Room 207, Metro Complex
Organizers:
Bo Guan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville guan@math.utk.edu
Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky cywang@ms.uky.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  p-harmonic maps with some applications in geometric analysis.
  Shihshu W. Wei*, The University of Oklahoma
  (970-53-161)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Wave maps with target in the Heisenberg group.
  Luca Capogna*, University of Arkansas
  (970-35-104)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A Kazdan-Warner type condition and heat kernel estimates on noncompact manifolds.
  Qi S Zhang*, University of Memphis and University of California Riverside
  (970-35-79)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Weil-Petersson geometry of Teichmuller spaces and harmonic mapping.
  Sumio Yamada*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (970-58-65)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A Parabolic Equation for Prescribing Scalar Curvature.
  Brain Smith*, University of Alabama
  Gilbert Weinstein, University of Alabama
  (970-58-201)

Saturday October 6, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of Partial Differential Equations in Geometric Analysis, III
Room 207, Metro Complex
Organizers:
Bo Guan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville guan@math.utk.edu
Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky cywang@ms.uky.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On a Nonlinear Parabolic System -- Modelling Chemical Reactions in Rivers.
  Wenxiong Chen, SMSU
  Congming Li*, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
  Eric Wright, Univ. of Colorado
  (970-35-85)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Uniform Rectifiability and PDE's.
  John L Lewis*, University of Kentucky
  (970-35-103)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the finite time singularity of the heat flow for harmonic maps from surfaces.
  Jie Qing*, UCSC
  (970-35-207)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Transonic shocks for steady potential flows and free boundary problems.
  Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
  Mikhail Feldman*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (970-35-118)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Bethe-Sommerfeld Conjecture for Higher-Order Elliptic Operators.
  Zhongwei Shen*, University of Kentucky
  (970-35-56)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Minimization problems and corresponding flows related to weighted $P$-energies and weighted total variation norms.
  Yunmei Chen*, university of florida
  Murali Rao, university of florida
  (970-35-199)

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