AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:44

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

Saturday October 12, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Differential Equations, I
Room B305, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Gloria Mari Beffa, University of Wisconsin-Madison maribeff@math.wisc.edu
Peter Olver, University of Minnesota olver@ima.umn.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Canonical regularization of the Lie algebra of pseudodifferential operators.
  Thierry P Robart*, Howard University
  Enrique G Reyes, University of Oklahoma
  (980-35-284)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Charts for analytic Lie pseudogroups of infinite type.
  Niky Kamran*, McGill University
  (980-53-87)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:30 a.m.
  Sub-Finsler geometry in dimension 3.
  Jeanne N. Clelland*, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Christopher G. Moseley, U.S. Military Academy
  (980-58-241)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Geometry of Parametric Backlund Transformations.
  Thomas A. Ivey*, College of Charleston
  Jeanne Nielsen Clelland, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (980-53-141)

Saturday October 12, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Differential Equations, II
Room B305, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Gloria Mari Beffa, University of Wisconsin-Madison maribeff@math.wisc.edu
Peter Olver, University of Minnesota olver@ima.umn.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Second-order type-changing evolution PDE with first-order intermediate equations.
  Marek Kossowski, University of South Carolina
  George R Wilkens*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  (980-53-62)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Generalized Symmetries and Local Conservation Laws of Massless Free Fields on Minkowski Space.
  Juha Pohjanpelto*, Oregon State University
  (980-35-261)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generalised Goursat Normal Form.
  Peter J. Vassiliou*, University of Canberra
  (980-58-257)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Classification of Darboux Integrable Equations.
  Matthew Biesecker*, Utah State University
  (980-35-248)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Group actions on jet spaces and Darboux integrable PDE.
  Mark Eric Fels*, Utah State University
  (980-35-246)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Differential Equations, III
Room B305, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Gloria Mari Beffa, University of Wisconsin-Madison maribeff@math.wisc.edu
Peter Olver, University of Minnesota olver@ima.umn.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On pseudo-potentials, nonlocal symmetries and integrability of some shallow water equations.
  Enrique G. Reyes*, University of Oklahoma
  (980-35-247)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:00 a.m.
  Orbit reduction and Gauge Theory.
  Vladimir Itskov*, Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Mathematik
  (980-53-222)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Equivariant Isometric Immersion of Riemannian Manifolds with Symmetries.
  Daniel Grossman*, University of Chicago
  (980-53-314)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Discussion

Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Differential Equations, IV
Room B305, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Gloria Mari Beffa, University of Wisconsin-Madison maribeff@math.wisc.edu
Peter Olver, University of Minnesota olver@ima.umn.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Symmetry reductions via moving frame method.
  Irina A Kogan*, Yale University
  (980-53-202)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Moving frames for pseudo-groups.
  Peter J. Olver*, University of Minnesota
  (980-22-72)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Dynamics of Groups on Lorentz Manifolds.
  Scot R Adams*, University of Minnesota
  (980-37-78)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:00 p.m.
  Variational Principles For The Canonical Connection On A Lie Group.
  Ryad A Ghanam*, University of Wisconsin-Rock County
  (980-53-282)

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