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, 10:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Optimal Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, I
Room B337, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Jason H. Cantarella, University of Georgia cantarel@math.uga.edu
John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana jms@math.uiuc.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Analytic aspects of the ropelength problem.
  Joseph H.G. Fu*, University of Georgia
  (980-53-312)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Examples and candidates for the ropelength problem.
  Nancy C. Wrinkle*, University of Georgia
  (980-51-315)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Optimal shapes of curves with finite thickness.
  Oscar Gonzalez*, Mathematics/UT-Austin
  (980-49-299)

Saturday October 12, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Optimal Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, II
Room B337, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Jason H. Cantarella, University of Georgia cantarel@math.uga.edu
John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana jms@math.uiuc.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  The convex hull property of noncompact hypersurfaces with positive curvature.
  Stephanie Alexander*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Mohammad Ghomi, University of South Carolina
  (980-53-283)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Surfaces with connected shades.
  Mohammad Ghomi*, Unversity of South Carolina
  (980-53-205)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Displacement estimates for curves with curvature bounds in CAT(K) spaces.
  Stephanie B Alexander, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Richard L Bishop*, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (980-53-243)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Projecting $(n-1)$-cycles to zero on $n$-planes in$R^(n+1)$.
  Bruce Solomon*, Indiana University
  (980-51-273)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A variational method to include surface diffusion with non-volume-conserving motion by mean curvature.
  Jean E Taylor*, Rutgers University
  (980-35-165)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Roulades and variational problems.
  J. McCuan*, Georgia Tech
  (980-53-148)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Optimal Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, III
Room B337, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Jason H. Cantarella, University of Georgia cantarel@math.uga.edu
John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana jms@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Honeycomb Conjecture And Its Generalizations.
  Thomas C. Hales*, University of Pittsburgh
  (980-51-319)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Deformations of Minimal Surfaces in Euclidean Space.
  Matthias Weber*, Indiana University
  (980-53-74)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Unstable periodic discrete minimal surfaces.
  Konrad Polthier*, Technical University Berlin
  (980-53-221)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Bifurcation Analysis for Constant Mean Curvature Spanners of Annular Type.
  Henry C Wente*, University of Toledo
  (980-49-203)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Special Session on Optimal Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, IV
Room B337, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Jason H. Cantarella, University of Georgia cantarel@math.uga.edu
John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana jms@math.uiuc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discussion

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