AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:41

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

Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Variational Methods in Classical Mechanics, I
Room 219, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
John N. Mather, Princeton University jnm@math.princeton.edu
Vadim Y. Kaloshin, Institute for Advanced Study kaloshin@caltech.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Minimizing methods for the N-body problem without equal-mass constraint.
  Kuo-Chang Chen*, University of Arizona
  (997-37-163)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Holomorphic Curves and Reeb Flows on Closed Three-manifolds.
  Helmut H Hofer*, Courant Institute
  (997-37-170)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Shadowing collision orbits of the 3 body problem.
  Sergey Bolotin*, Univeristy of Wisconsin - Madison
  (997-37-269)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
Special Session on Variational Methods in Classical Mechanics, II
Room 219, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
John N. Mather, Princeton University jnm@math.princeton.edu
Vadim Y. Kaloshin, Institute for Advanced Study kaloshin@caltech.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Plane-like critical points that are not minimizers in periodic variational problems.
  Rafael de la Llave*, Univ. of Texas, Austin
  (997-35-91)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Energy growth and boundedness in billiards with moving walls.
  Mark Levi*, Penn State University
  (997-37-268)

Sunday April 18, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Variational Methods in Classical Mechanics
Room 219, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
John N. Mather, Princeton University jnm@math.princeton.edu
Vadim Y. Kaloshin, Institute for Advanced Study kaloshin@caltech.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Topologically monotone periodic orbits for surface homeomorphisms.
  Kamlesh Parwani*, Northwestern University
  (997-37-270)
- 9:25 a.m.
  Regularity of transport coefficients for Lorenz gas.
  Dmitry Dolgopyat*, University of Maryland
  (997-37-155)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Instability of totally elliptic points of 4-dimensional symplectic maps.
  Vadim Y. Kaloshin*, Caltech, AIM, IAS
  (997-37-272)

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