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, 9:10 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Differential Geometry, I
Room 804, Main Building
Organizers:
John C. Loftin, Columbia University loftin@math.columbia.edu
Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University mtwang@math.columbia.edu
- 9:10 a.m.
  Singular Real Projective Surfaces--An Analytic Approach.
  John C. Loftin*, Columbia
  (986-53-149)
- 9:50 a.m.
  Analysis of Geometric Stability.
  T Sean Paul*, Columbia University
  Gang Tian, M.I.T.
  (986-32-223)
- 10:30 a.m.
  An Isoperimetric Estimate for the Ricci Flow.
  Xiaodong Cao*, Columbia University
  (986-53-212)

Saturday April 12, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Differential Geometry, II
Room 804, Main Building
Organizers:
John C. Loftin, Columbia University loftin@math.columbia.edu
Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University mtwang@math.columbia.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Stability for the Kahler Ricci Flow on complete non-compact Kahler manifolds.
  Albert Chau*, Harvard University
  Oliver C. Schnuerer, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
  (986-53-237)
- 3:10 p.m.
  A fully nonlinear equation on 4-manifolds with positive scalar curvature.
  Jeff A. Viaclovsky*, MIT
  (986-53-236)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Infinite boundary value problem for Monge-Ampere equations.
  Bo Guan*, University of Tennessee
  Huaiyu Jian, Tsinghua University
  (986-35-233)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Differential Harnack Estimates in the Ricci Flow.
  Bing Cheng*, Harvard University
  (986-53-202)
- 5:10 p.m.
  On the $L^2$ cohomology of convex cocompact hyperbolic manifolds.
  Xiaodong Wang*, M.I.T.
  (986-53-167)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Differential Geometry, III
Room 405, Main Building
Organizers:
John C. Loftin, Columbia University loftin@math.columbia.edu
Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University mtwang@math.columbia.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Remarks on a Class of Solutions to the Minimal Surface System.
  Mu-Tao Wang*, Columbia University
  (986-53-137)
- 9:10 a.m.
  Analytic properties of harmonic maps into Teichmuller spaces.
  Sumio Yamada*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (986-58-145)
- 9:50 a.m.
  Special Lagrangian Submanifolds with Boundary and Lagrangian Free Boundary Plateau Problem.
  Weiyang Qiu*, Harvard University
  (986-53-140)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Deformations of $G_2$ Structures on Manifolds.
  Spiro Karigiannis*, Harvard University
  (986-53-139)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Differential Geometry, IV
Room 405, Main Building
Organizers:
John C. Loftin, Columbia University loftin@math.columbia.edu
Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University mtwang@math.columbia.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Alexandrov type inequalities for Cartan-Hadamard manifolds.
  Joel Spruck*, Johns Hopkins University
  (986-35-101)
- 3:10 p.m.
  The Local Isometric Embedding Problem for 2-Dimensional Riemannian Manifolds.
  Marcus A. Khuri*, University of Pennsylvania
  (986-35-172)
- 3:50 p.m.
  A glueing theorem for the Ginzburg-Landau equations in higher dimensions.
  Simon A Brendle*, Princeton University
  (986-53-76)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Almost Rigidity and Stability.
  Christina Sormani*, Lehman College, CUNY
  (986-58-189)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Mean Curvature Flows and Homotopy of Maps Between Spheres.
  Mao-Pei Tsui*, Columbia University
  (986-53-148)

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