AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:41

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

Friday March 1, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Integrable Systems and Poisson Geometry, I
Room 1084, East Hall
Organizers:
Anthony Bloch, University of Michigan abloch@math.lsa.umich.edu
Philip Foth, University of Arizona foth@math.arizona.edu
Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame Gekhtman.1@nd.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Poisson brackets for integrable systems and complex analysis.
  Kirill Vaninsky*, Michigan State University
  (974-35-129)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The number of connected components in a generic double Bruhat cells.
  Mikhail Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame
  Mikhail Shapiro*, Michigan State University
  Alek Vainshtein, University of Haifa
  (974-22-177)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Integrable hamiltonian flows with positive metric entropy.
  Leo T Butler*, Northwestern University
  (974-37-136)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Integrable Systems and Rank One Conditions for Rectangular Matrices.
  Michael Gekhtman, Notre Dame
  Alex Kasman*, College of Charleston
  (974-35-26)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Integrable Systems and Poisson Geometry, II
Room 1084, East Hall
Organizers:
Anthony Bloch, University of Michigan abloch@math.lsa.umich.edu
Philip Foth, University of Arizona foth@math.arizona.edu
Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame Gekhtman.1@nd.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:00 a.m.
  Biorthogonal Polynomials, Random Multimatrix Models and the Full Kostant-Toda Lattice.
  Nicholas M Ercolani*, University of Arizona
  Kenneth T.- R. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & University of Arizona
  (974-33-192)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Qualitative Behavior of some non-Abelian Toda Equations.
  Melinda Koelling*, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Anthony Bloch, University of Michigan
  Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame
  (974-34-235)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Moment maps and reductive symmetric pairs.
  Reyer Sjamaar*, Cornell University
  Yi Lin, Cornell University
  (974-58-200)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Integrable Systems and Poisson Geometry, III
Room 1084, East Hall
Organizers:
Anthony Bloch, University of Michigan abloch@math.lsa.umich.edu
Philip Foth, University of Arizona foth@math.arizona.edu
Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame Gekhtman.1@nd.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Integrable systems of conservation laws and projective theory of congruences.
  S I Agafonov*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
  E V Ferapontov, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
  (974-35-39)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Topology of the real part of hyperelliptic Jacobian associated with the periodic Toda lattice.
  Yuji Kodama*, Ohio State University
  (974-51-175)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Symplectic leaves in triangular Poisson Lie groups.
  Milen Yakimov*, Cornell University
  Tim Hodges, University of Cincinnati
  (974-53-246)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Integrable Spin Calogero-Moser Systems.
  Luen-Chau Li*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  Ping Xu, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  (974-58-169)

Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Integrable Systems and Poisson Geometry, IV
Room 1084, East Hall
Organizers:
Anthony Bloch, University of Michigan abloch@math.lsa.umich.edu
Philip Foth, University of Arizona foth@math.arizona.edu
Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame Gekhtman.1@nd.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Degree of Approximation of Analytic Functions by Solitons.
  Peter D Miller*, University of Michigan
  (974-41-168)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Clifford algebras and the classical dynamical Yang-Baxter equation.
  Eckhard Meinrenken*, University of Toronto
  (974-53-256)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On variants of the Bruhat-Poisson structure.
  Sam Evens*, University of Notre Dame
  (974-53-218)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Discussion
- 12:00 p.m.
  Discussion

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