AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday March 8, 2002, 2:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, I
Room 217, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Margaret Symington, Georgia Institute of Technology msyming@math.gatech.edu
Gordana Matic, University of Georgia gordana@math.uga.edu
- 2:10 p.m.
  A Morse-Bott approach to contact homology.
  Fr�d�ric Bourgeois*, Stanford University
  (975-53-117)
- 2:40 p.m.
  On symplectic fillings of lens spaces.
  Paolo Lisca*, University of Pisa, Italy and University of Georgia, GA, USA
  (975-57-177)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Stein fillings of a contact 3-manifold.
  Rostislav Matveyev*, Dept. of Math., UC Davis
  (975-57-257)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Nonisotopic symplectic tori in the fiber class of elliptic surfaces.
  Stefano Vidussi*, Kansas State University
  (975-57-215)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Symplectic Topology of $S^2 \times$ Surface".
  Joseph L Coffey*, SUNY Stony Brook
  (975-53-228)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Relative Contact Homology and Contact Non-squeezing.
  Sang Seon Kim*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (975-53-192)

Saturday March 9, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, II
Room 217, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Margaret Symington, Georgia Institute of Technology msyming@math.gatech.edu
Gordana Matic, University of Georgia gordana@math.uga.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Relative family Gromov-Witten invariants and symplectomorphisms.
  Olguta Buse*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (975-51-254)
- 8:55 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:15 a.m.
  Symplectic and Contact Quotients.
  Christopher Willett*, University of Illinois
  (975-53-242)
- 10:45 a.m.
  Legendrian knots and contact homology.
  John B Etnyre*, University of Pennsylvania
  (975-57-146)
- 11:15 a.m.
  Computational aspects of relative contact homology.
  Lenhard L. Ng*, AIM and IAS
  (975-57-308)
- 11:45 a.m.
  Invariants of Legendrian Knots in Circle Bundles.
  Joshua M. Sabloff*, Stanford University
  (975-57-74)

Saturday March 9, 2002, 3:05 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, III
Room 217, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Margaret Symington, Georgia Institute of Technology msyming@math.gatech.edu
Gordana Matic, University of Georgia gordana@math.uga.edu
- 3:05 p.m.
  Special Lagrangian Submanifolds and Mirror Symmetry.
  Sema Salur*, Cornell University
  (975-53-206)
- 3:35 p.m.
  Topologically characterizing symplectic manifolds.
  Robert E. Gompf*, University of Texas, Austin
  (975-57-369)
- 4:05 p.m.
  On the topology of Stein fillings.
  Andras I Stipsicz*, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  (975-57-71)
- 4:35 p.m.
  Symplectic cobordisms and open book decompositions.
  David T Gay*, Mathematics Department, University of Arizona
  (975-57-88)
- 5:05 p.m.
  Grafting Seiberg-Witten Monopoles.
  Stanislav Jabuka*, Michigan State University
  (975-53-51)

Sunday March 10, 2002, 10:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, IV
Room 217, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Margaret Symington, Georgia Institute of Technology msyming@math.gatech.edu
Gordana Matic, University of Georgia gordana@math.uga.edu
- 10:10 a.m.
  Symplectic topology and circle actions.
  Susan Tolman*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (975-53-250)
- 10:40 a.m.
  Periodic Orbits of a Charge in a Magnetic Field.
  Kai Cieliebak, Mathematisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Muenchen
  Viktor L. Ginzburg*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Kerman Ely, University of Toronto
  Cesar Niche, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (975-37-281)
- 11:10 a.m.
  Length minimizing Hamiltonian paths and Floer homology.
  Ely Kerman*, University of Toronto
  Francois Lalonde, Universite de Montreal
  (975-53-382)
- 11:40 a.m.
  A $C^2$-smooth counterexample to the Hamiltonian Seifert conjecture in $R^4$.
  Viktor L Ginzburg, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Ba\c{s}ak Z G\"{u}rel*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (975-37-69)
- 12:10 p.m.
  Holomorphic Curves, Hamiltonian Dynamics, and Lagrangian Embeddings.
  Klaus Mohnke*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (975-53-54)

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