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

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)

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