AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:31

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 12, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Contact and Symplectic Geometry, I
Room 411, Main Building
Organizers:
John B. Etnyre, University of Pennsylvania etnyre@math.upenn.edu
Joshua M. Sabloff, University of Pennsylvania sabloff@math.upenn.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Neighborhoods of configurations of symplectic surfaces in symplectic 4-manifolds.
  David T Gay*, University of Arizona
  (986-57-111)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Four dimensions from two in symplectic topology.
  Margaret F Symington*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (986-57-117)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Contact SU(2) actions.
  Christopher B Willett*, Indiana University
  (986-53-52)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Distinguishing the Chambers of the Moment Polytope.
  Rebecca F Goldin*, George Mason University
  Tara Holm, University of CA, Berkeley
  Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto
  (986-51-183)

Saturday April 12, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Contact and Symplectic Geometry, II
Room 411, Main Building
Organizers:
John B. Etnyre, University of Pennsylvania etnyre@math.upenn.edu
Joshua M. Sabloff, University of Pennsylvania sabloff@math.upenn.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Polynomials for Legendrian Links.
  Lisa Traynor*, Bryn Mawr College
  Lenny Ng, Stanford University
  (986-58-87)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Knot and Braid Invariants from Contact Homology.
  Lenhard Ng*, AIM and Stanford University
  (986-57-88)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Knots and contact geometry.
  Ko Honda*, University of Southern California
  (986-53-33)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Open Book Decompositions and Contact Structures.
  Noah D Goodman*, University of Texas at Austin
  (986-54-178)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Classifying tight contact structures on Seifert fibered spaces.
  Stephan Schoenenberger*, University of Pennsylvania
  (986-51-60)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On the contactomorphism group of 3-manifolds.
  Nadya Shirokova*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (986-57-194)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Contact and Symplectic Geometry, III
Room 411, Main Building
Organizers:
John B. Etnyre, University of Pennsylvania etnyre@math.upenn.edu
Joshua M. Sabloff, University of Pennsylvania sabloff@math.upenn.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Fillings by pseudoholomorphic curves and the Chord Problem in Contact Geometry.
  Casim Abbas*, Michigan State University
  (986-53-37)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Counting pseudo-holomorphic curves in four-manifolds.
  Michael Hutchings, UC Berkeley
  Michael Sullivan*, University of Michigan
  (986-53-45)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Contact homology, contact embeddings and a partial order of contactomorphisms.
  Sang Seon Kim*, University of Southern California
  (986-53-156)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Unknottedness of Lagrangian tori in the standard symplectic ${\mathbb R}^4$.
  Alexander Ivrii*, Stanford University
  (986-53-201)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Fredholm Theory and Transversality for Non-compact Pseudoholomorphic Curves in Symplectizations.
  Dragomir L Dragnev*, University of Southern California
  (986-58-48)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Contact and Symplectic Geometry, IV
Room 411, Main Building
Organizers:
John B. Etnyre, University of Pennsylvania etnyre@math.upenn.edu
Joshua M. Sabloff, University of Pennsylvania sabloff@math.upenn.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Symplectomorphism groups of toric manifolds.
  Dusa McDuff*, Stony Brook University
  (986-53-138)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Hofer-Zehnder capacity near symplectic submanifolds.
  Ely Kerman*, SUNY Stony Brook
  (986-37-154)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Locally conformal Dirac structures and infinitesimal automorphisms.
  Aissa Wade*, The Pennsylvania University
  (986-53-162)

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