AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:30

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

Friday April 4, 2003, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Teichm\u"ller Theory to Dynamics and Geometry, I
Room 244, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Christopher M. Judge, Indiana University cjudge@indiana.edu
Matthias Weber, Indiana University matweber@indiana.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Moduli Spaces of Flat Structures in Minimal Surface Theory.
  Michael Wolf*, Rice University
  (985-32-311)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Veech Surfaces and Complete Periodicity in Genus 2.
  Kariane Calta*, University of Chicago
  (985-37-256)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Flat Structures and Soap Films.
  Robert Huff*, Rice University
  (985-51-178)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Surfaces of infinite type with free automorphism groups.
  Reza Chamanara*, IU, Bloomington
  (985-51-252)

Saturday April 5, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of Teichm\u"ller Theory to Dynamics and Geometry,II
Room 247, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Christopher M. Judge, Indiana University cjudge@indiana.edu
Matthias Weber, Indiana University matweber@indiana.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Counting Problems on Translation Surfaces.
  Howard Masur*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (985-32-226)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Relative isoperimetric inequality: an extension of the classical isoperimetric inequality.
  Jaigyoung Choe*, Seoul National University
  (985-58-250)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Infinitely Generated Veech Groups.
  Pascal Hubert, Institut de Mathematiques de Luminy
  Thomas A Schmidt*, Oregon State University
  (985-37-152)

Saturday April 5, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Teichm\u"ller Theory to Dynamics and Geometry, III
Room 247, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Christopher M. Judge, Indiana University cjudge@indiana.edu
Matthias Weber, Indiana University matweber@indiana.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Moduli spaces of constant mean curvature surfaces properly embedded in $R^3$.
  Rob Kusner*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  (985-53-158)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Dynamics on branched covers of Veech surfaces.
  Alex Eskin*, University of Chicago
  J Marklof, University of Bristol
  D Witte, Oklahoma State University
  (985-37-328)

Sunday April 6, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of Teichm\u"ller Theory to Dynamics and Geometry, IV
Room 247, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Christopher M. Judge, Indiana University cjudge@indiana.edu
Matthias Weber, Indiana University matweber@indiana.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  X-minimal surfaces in the Heisenberg group.
  Scott D. Pauls*, Dartmouth College
  (985-53-235)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Polygonal outer billiards in the Euclidean and the hyperbolic plane.
  Serge Tabachnikov*, Penn State
  (985-37-203)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Spectral Curves of 2-Tori in the 4-Sphere.
  Franz Pedit*, University of Massachusetts
  (985-53-58)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Recent results on classical minimal surface theory.
  William H. Meeks*, Univ. of Massachusetts
  (985-53-156)

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