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, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Convergence of Riemannian Manifolds, I
Room 321, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Christina Sormani, Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY) sormani@comet.lehman.cuny.edu
Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers State University
Guofang Wei, University of California Santa Barbara
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rough Isometries Between Non-Compact Riemannian Manifolds.
  Cristina Abreu Suzuki*, The Graduate Center, CUNY
  (997-53-57)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Convergence and the Covering Spectrum.
  Christina Sormani*, Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center
  Guofang Wei, U.C.S.B.
  (997-58-119)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Degeneration of Kahler-Einstein manifolds.
  Wei-Dong Ruan*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (997-53-126)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Convergence of Riemannian Manifolds, II
Room 321, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Christina Sormani, Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY) sormani@comet.lehman.cuny.edu
Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers State University
Guofang Wei, University of California Santa Barbara
- 2:30 p.m.
  Generalized cone constructions in Alexandrov, Riemannian and Lorentz spaces.
  Stephanie B Alexander*, UIUC
  Richard L Bishop, UIUC
  (997-53-132)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Lorentzian Gromov Hausdorff theory.
  Johan Noldus*, Universiteit Gent
  (997-51-45)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Approximation of the quantum Tori by finite quantum Tori for the quantum Gromov-Haussdorf distance.
  Frederic Latremoliere*, University of California, Berkeley
  (997-46-71)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion of Lorentzian Convergence

Sunday April 18, 2004, 8:40 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Convergence of Riemannian Manifolds, III
Room 321, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Christina Sormani, Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY) sormani@comet.lehman.cuny.edu
Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers State University
Guofang Wei, University of California Santa Barbara
- 8:40 a.m.
  Discussion
- 9:30 a.m.
  The curvature tensor and the convergence of metrics under the Ricci flow.
  Natasa Sesum*, MIT
  (997-53-124)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Deforming mappings by geometric flows.
  Mu-Tao Wang*, Columbia University
  (997-53-114)

Sunday April 18, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Convergence of Riemannian Manifolds, IV
Room 321, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Christina Sormani, Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY) sormani@comet.lehman.cuny.edu
Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers State University
Guofang Wei, University of California Santa Barbara
- 2:30 p.m.
  Rigidity of 5-manifolds of pinched positive sectional curvature.
  Fuquan Fang*, Nankai Institute of Mathemactis, Nankai University, China
  (997-53-60)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Negative pinching and nilpotent groups.
  Igor Belegradek*, Georgia Tech
  Vilali Kapovitch, University of California Santa Barbara
  (997-53-97)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Classification of negatively pinched manifolds with almost nilpotent fundamental groups.
  Vitali Kapovitch*, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Igor Belegradek, Georgia Institute of Technology,
  (997-53-07)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion of Pinching

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