AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:42

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

Friday May 3, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Curvature and Topology, I
Room B-3335, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Regina Rotman, Courant Institute, New York University rotman@math1.cims.nyu.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Kristopher R. Tapp, SUNY at Stony Brook ktapp@math.sunysb.edu
- 1:00 p.m.
  Metrics without Morse Index Bounds.
  Tobias H. Colding, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  Nancy Hingston*, College of New Jersey
  (976-49-138)
- 1:45 p.m.
  Volume, diameter and short geodesics.
  St\'ephane Sabourau*, Institut Fourier
  (976-53-86)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Estimates for the length of a shortest closed geodesic.
  Alexander Nabutovsky, University of Toronto
  Regina Rotman*, Courant Institute of Math. Sci.
  (976-53-73)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 3:25 p.m.
  The minimal mass of a stationary 1-cycle and the length of a shortest closed geodesic.
  Alexander Nabutovsky*, University of Toronto
  Regina Rotman, Courant Institute of Math. Sci.
  (976-53-54)
- 4:10 p.m.
  The null splitting theorem with applications to asymptotically flat and asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes.
  Gregory J Galloway*, University of Miami
  (976-53-148)

Saturday May 4, 2002, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Curvature and Topology, II
Room B-3335, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Regina Rotman, Courant Institute, New York University rotman@math1.cims.nyu.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Kristopher R. Tapp, SUNY at Stony Brook ktapp@math.sunysb.edu
- 8:40 a.m.
  Homogeneous Einstein Manifolds.
  William Dickinson, Grand Valley State University
  Megan M Kerr*, Wellesley College
  (976-53-164)
- 9:25 a.m.
  Conserved quantities of the cohomogeneity one Ricci-flat equations.
  Andrew Dancer, Oxford University
  McKenzie Y. Wang*, McMaster University
  (976-53-87)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Manifolds of Nonnegative and Almost Nonnegative Curvature.
  Wilderich Tuschmann*, MPI Leipzig
  (976-53-83)

Saturday May 4, 2002, 2:45 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Curvature and Topology, III
Room B-3335, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Regina Rotman, Courant Institute, New York University rotman@math1.cims.nyu.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Kristopher R. Tapp, SUNY at Stony Brook ktapp@math.sunysb.edu
- 2:45 p.m.
  A connectedness principle in the geometry of positive curvature.
  Fuquan Fang, NanKai Institute of Mathematics
  Sergio Mondonca, Instituto de Matem\'atica
  Xiaochun Rong*, Rutgers University and Beijing Normal University
  (976-53-25)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Symmetries of Eschenburg and Bazaikin spaces.
  Karsten Grove, University of Maryland, College Park
  Krishnan Shankar*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Wolfgang Ziller, University of Pennsylvania
  (976-53-116)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 4:35 p.m.
  Conditions for nonnegative and positive curvature on bundles.
  Kristopher R. Tapp*, SUNY Stony Brook
  (976-53-51)
- 5:20 p.m.
  Inverse Compariosn Geometry.
  Frederick H Wilhelm*, Univ Calf., Riverside
  Peter Petersen, UCLA
  (976-53-55)

Sunday May 5, 2002, 9:25 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Curvature and Topology, IV
Room B-3335, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Regina Rotman, Courant Institute, New York University rotman@math1.cims.nyu.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Kristopher R. Tapp, SUNY at Stony Brook ktapp@math.sunysb.edu
- 8:40 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 9:25 a.m.
  Ricci degeneracy in nonpositively curved manifolds.
  Fangyang Zheng*, Ohio State University
  (976-53-74)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Universal Covers for Hausdorff Limits of Noncompact Spaces.
  Christina Sormani, Lehman College, City University of New York
  Guofang Wei*, UC Santa Barbara
  (976-53-66)

Sunday May 5, 2002, 1:30 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Curvature and Topology, V
Room B-3335, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Regina Rotman, Courant Institute, New York University rotman@math1.cims.nyu.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Kristopher R. Tapp, SUNY at Stony Brook ktapp@math.sunysb.edu
- 1:30 p.m.
  Einstein Compactifications of Hyperbolic Manifolds.
  Gordon Craig*, SUNY Stony Brook
  (976-53-91)
- 2:15 p.m.
  Classifying families of seven manifolds.
  Christine M Escher*, Oregon State University
  (976-55-133)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 3:15 p.m.
  Covering Spaces and Their Limits.
  Christina Sormani*, Lehman College, CUNY
  Guofang Wei, U.C.S.B.
  (976-53-162)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Angle Defect for Arbitrary Simplicial Complexes.
  Ethan D. Bloch*, Bard College
  (976-57-82)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Maxwell-Dirac Equations in 4-dimensional Minkowski Space.
  Maria Psarelli*, Bronx Community College-CUNY
  (976-35-197)

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