
AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:41
2002 Central Section Meeting
Ann Arbor, MI, March 1-3, 2002
Meeting #974
Associate secretaries: Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
Special Session on Differential Geometry
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Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, I
Room 232, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Lizhen Ji, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor lji@math.lsa.umich.edu
Krishnan Shankar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor shankar@math.lsa.umich.edu
Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor spatzier@math.lsa.umich.edu
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8:30 a.m.
The rigidity of higher dimensional graph-manifolds.
Jianguo Cao*, University of Notre Dame
(974-53-212) -
9:15 a.m.
Unreduced weighted $L_2$ cohomology of strictly negatively quarter pinched manifolds of finite volume.
Stephen S Bullock*, University of Michigan
(974-53-153) -
10:00 a.m.
Finsler Metrics of Constant Flag Curvature.
Zhongmin Shen*, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis
(974-53-225) -
10:45 a.m.
The $\pi_1$ of manifolds with integrable geodesic flows.
Leo T Butler*, Northwestern University
(974-53-134)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, II
Room 232, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Lizhen Ji, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor lji@math.lsa.umich.edu
Krishnan Shankar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor shankar@math.lsa.umich.edu
Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor spatzier@math.lsa.umich.edu
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Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, III
Room 232, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Lizhen Ji, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor lji@math.lsa.umich.edu
Krishnan Shankar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor shankar@math.lsa.umich.edu
Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor spatzier@math.lsa.umich.edu
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10:00 a.m.
Vector bundles with infinitely many souls.
Igor Belegradek*, Caltech
(974-53-138) -
10:45 a.m.
Obstructions to nonnegative curvature and rational homotopy theory.
Vitali Kapovitch*, University of California at Santa Barbara
Igor Belegradek, Caltech
(974-53-14) -
11:30 a.m.
The second twisted Betti number and the convergence of collapsing manifolds with bounded curvature and diameter.
Fuquan Fang, NanKai Institute of Mathematics
Xiaochun Rong*, Rutgers University and Beijing Normal University
(974-53-68)
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10:00 a.m.