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

• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rigidity of quasiconformal structures on the boundary of negatively curved manifolds.
    Chris Connell*, University of Chicago
    (974-53-217)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On Ricci Rank for Nonpositively Curved Manifolds.
    Fangyang Zheng*, Ohio State University
    (974-53-51)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• 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
  

  • 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)