AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:32

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Thursday October 2, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 1B 40 (Basement), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Jeanne N. Clelland, University of Colorado, Boulder Jeanne.Clelland@colorado.edu
George R. Wilkins, University of Hawaii grw@math.hawaii.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Nonclassical Potential Solutions of Partial Differential Equations.
  George W. Bluman*, University of British Columbia
  Zhenya Yan, University of British Columbia
  (989-35-139)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Second order families of associative submanifolds of ${\mathbb R}^7$.
  Robert L Bryant*, Duke University
  (989-53-41)

Thursday October 2, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 1B 40 (Basement), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Jeanne N. Clelland, University of Colorado, Boulder Jeanne.Clelland@colorado.edu
George R. Wilkins, University of Hawaii grw@math.hawaii.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Second Order Families of Special Lagrangian 4-folds in ${\Bbb C}^4$.
  L. Marianty Ionel*, McMaster University
  (989-53-160)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Symbolic computation on a jet bundle. Moving coframes.
  Irina A Kogan*, North Carolina State University
  (989-53-211)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Path Geometry of Riemannian and Finsler geodesics on a Surface.
  Christopher Catone*, University of Colorado
  (989-53-135)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Energy Critical Curves in the Path Space of the Euclidean Line.
  Marek Kossowski, University of South Carolina
  George R Wilkens*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  (989-58-266)

Friday October 3, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Partial Differential Equations, III
Room 1B 40 (Basement), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Jeanne N. Clelland, University of Colorado, Boulder Jeanne.Clelland@colorado.edu
George R. Wilkins, University of Hawaii grw@math.hawaii.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Inverse Problem of Lagrangian Mechanics for the Canonical Lie Group Spray.
  Gerard Thompson*, University of Toledo
  Ryad A Ghanam, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburgh
  (989-53-245)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some general observations regarding symmetry reduction of EDS.
  Ian M Anderson*, Utah State University
  (989-53-226)

Friday October 3, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Partial Differential Equations, IV
Room 1B 40 (Basement), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Jeanne N. Clelland, University of Colorado, Boulder Jeanne.Clelland@colorado.edu
George R. Wilkins, University of Hawaii grw@math.hawaii.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Self-dual SU(2) connections, and flows of metrics on $M^3$.
  Volodya Itskov*, Duke University
  (989-53-258)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Sub-Finsler Geometry in Dimension Three.
  Jeanne N Clelland, University of Colorado at Boulder
  Christopher G Moseley*, United States Military Academy
  (989-53-198)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Generalized Symmetries of Darboux Integrable Equations.
  Matt Biesecker*, South Dakota State University
  (989-35-238)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Darboux Integrability and Backlund Equivalence for Hyperbolic Exterior Differential Systems.
  Thomas A Ivey*, College of Charleston
  (989-35-151)

Saturday October 4, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Partial Differential Equations, V
Room 1B 40 (Basement), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Jeanne N. Clelland, University of Colorado, Boulder Jeanne.Clelland@colorado.edu
George R. Wilkins, University of Hawaii grw@math.hawaii.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the two-phase Stefan problem.
  Marianne Korten*, Kansas State University
  Charles N Moore, Kansas State University
  (989-35-191)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Characterizing immersions that lie on algebraic varieties (Preliminary report).
  Steven V Wilkinson*, Northern Kentucky University
  (989-53-93)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Discussion

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