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, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, I
Room 140, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Jiri Dadok, Indiana University dadok@indiana.edu
Bruce Solomon, Indiana University solomon@indiana.edu
Ji-Ping Sha, Indiana university jsha@indiana.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Navigation in Riemannian Spaces.
  Zhongmin Shen*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
  (985-53-185)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Soliton surfaces in the mechanical equilibrium of closed membranes.
  Brian Smyth*, University of Notre Dame
  (985-53-293)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Universal Equations In Gromov-Witten Invariants.
  Xiaobo Liu*, Univ. of Notre Dame
  (985-53-270)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A Theorem of Dominguez Implies a Theorem of Gromov.
  Richard H Escobales*, Canisius College
  (985-53-21)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Spectral Bounds on Orbifold Isotropy.
  Elizabeth A. Stanhope*, University of Michigan
  (985-53-20)

Saturday April 5, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, II
Room 140, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Jiri Dadok, Indiana University dadok@indiana.edu
Bruce Solomon, Indiana University solomon@indiana.edu
Ji-Ping Sha, Indiana university jsha@indiana.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Minimal surfaces and Ricci flow.
  Ian Agol*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (985-53-55)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Jeff Brock, University of Chicago
  Dick Canary*, University of Michigan
  Yair Minsky, SUNY-Stony Brook
  (985-57-301)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Marden's tameness conjecture and limits of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Jeffrey F. Brock*, University of Chicago
  Juan Souto, Universit�t Bonn
  (985-53-304)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A geometric condition for topological tameness.
  Chris Connell*, University of Chicago
  (985-58-264)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Conformally invariant differential operators.
  Thomas P Branson*, University of Iowa
  (985-53-303)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Constructing locally non-isometric, simply-connected isospectral manifolds via Sunada's method.
  Craig J. Sutton*, University of Pennsylvania
  (985-53-296)

Saturday April 5, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, III
Room 140, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Jiri Dadok, Indiana University dadok@indiana.edu
Bruce Solomon, Indiana University solomon@indiana.edu
Ji-Ping Sha, Indiana university jsha@indiana.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Tangent bundle embeddings of manifolds in Euclidean space.
  Mohammad Ghomi*, University of South Carolina
  (985-53-105)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Totally skew Euclidean submanifolds and non-singular bilinear maps.
  Serge Tabachnikov*, Penn State
  (985-53-202)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The tight clasp.
  John M Sullivan*, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
  (985-51-180)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Ropelength Criticality and the ``Simple'' Clasp.
  Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
  Joseph H. G. Fu, University of Georgia
  Robert B Kusner, University of Massachusetts
  John M Sullivan, University of Illinois
  Nancy C. Wrinkle, University of Georgia
  (985-49-42)

Sunday April 6, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, IV
Room 140, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Jiri Dadok, Indiana University dadok@indiana.edu
Bruce Solomon, Indiana University solomon@indiana.edu
Ji-Ping Sha, Indiana university jsha@indiana.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometry of $L^{p}([0,1],\mathbb{Z)}$.
  Valera I Berestovskii, Omsk State University
  Victor Gichev, Omsk State University
  Conrad Plaut*, University of Tennessee
  (985-53-246)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Hypersurfaces of constant Gauss curvature in Minkowski space.
  Bo Guan*, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee
  Huaiyu Jian, Tsinghua University, China
  (985-53-292)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Spectral theory for tensor products of Hermitian holomorphic line bundles.
  Harold G. Donnelly*, Purdue University
  (985-53-44)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Bonnet pairs revisited.
  Gary R. Jensen*, Washington University
  (985-53-201)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Torsion-free $G_{3}$-connections that are not analytic.
  Quo-Shin Chi*, Washington University, St. Louis
  (985-53-84)
- 11:30 a.m.
  A moduli curve for compact conformally-Einstein K\"ahler manifolds.
  Andrzej Derdzinski*, Ohio State University
  Gideon Maschler, University of Toronto
  (985-53-251)

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