AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:44

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, I
Room 326, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Ivan G. Avramidi, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology iavramid@nmt.edu
Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa thomas-branson@uiowa.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Robin Boundary Condition: A Technique and Spectral Consequences.
  Stephen A. Fulling*, Texas A&M University
  (1000-35-49)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The Segal-Bargmann transform for noncompact symmetric spaces.
  Brian C. Hall, Notre Dame University
  Jeffrey J. Mitchell*, Robert Morris University
  (1000-53-119)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the renormalized volume of conformally compact Einstein manifolds.
  Alice Chang, Princeton University
  Jie Qing*, UC Santa Cruz
  Paul Yang, Princeton University
  (1000-53-161)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Scaling and asymptotics of heat operators: A spectral duality.
  Palle E. T. Jorgensen*, University of Iowa
  (1000-46-05)

Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, II
Room 326, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Ivan G. Avramidi, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology iavramid@nmt.edu
Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa thomas-branson@uiowa.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Patterson-Selberg zeta function for the BTZ black hole.
  Floyd L. Williams*, Dept.Math./Univ.Mass.at Amherst
  (1000-53-25)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Noncommutative residue and conformal invariants.
  William J Ugalde*, Purdue University
  (1000-53-111)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Two new Weyl-type bounds for the fixed membrane.
  Lotfi Hermi*, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
  (1000-35-11)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Beyond the classical Weyl and Colin de Verdi\`ere's formulas for Schr\"odinger operators with polynomial magnetic and electric fields.
  Mitya Boyarchenko, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
  Sergei Levendorskii*, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin
  (1000-35-20)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, III
Room 326, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Ivan G. Avramidi, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology iavramid@nmt.edu
Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa thomas-branson@uiowa.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The spectral function for spinors.
  Doojin Hong*, Grinnell College
  (1000-53-168)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Zeta and eta invariants for chiral bag boundary conditions.
  Klaus Kirsten*, Baylor University
  (1000-58-46)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Topics in Spectral and Fractal Geometry.
  Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California, Riverside
  Ben Hambly, Oxford University, UK
  (1000-58-35)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A tube formula for the Koch snowflake curve, with applications to complex dimensions.
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
  Erin P.J. Pearse*, University of California, Riverside
  (1000-37-18)

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