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, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Interactions in Riemannian Geometry, I
Room 324, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Charles P. Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  3-Sasakian spaces and positive sectional curvature.
  Wolfgang Ziller*, University of Pennsylvania
  Karsten Grove, University of Maryland
  Burkhard Wilking, University of Muenster
  (1000-53-186)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The topology of Eschenburg spaces and 3-Sasakian manifolds.
  Christine Escher*, Oregon State University
  Wolfgang Ziller, University of Pennsylvania
  (1000-53-135)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Superpotentials and the Cohomogeneity One Einstein Equations.
  Andrew Dancer, Oxford University
  McKenzie Y Wang*, McMaster University
  (1000-53-71)
- 10:30 a.m.
  CAT(0) cube complexes for non-discrete reflection groups.
  Krishnan Shankar*, University of Oklahoma, Norman
  (1000-20-74)

Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Interactions in Riemannian Geometry, II
Room 324, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Charles P. Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Hamiltonian two-forms in K\"ahler Geometry.
  Vestislav Apostolov*, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal
  (1000-53-148)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Weakly Bochner-flat K\"ahler metrics.
  V. Apostolov, UQAM, Montreal
  D. M. J. Calderbank, University of Edinburgh
  P. Gauduchon, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
  C. W. Tonnesen-Friedman*, Union College
  (1000-53-87)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The signature of smooth 4-manifolds with $S^1$ actions.
  Rafael Herrera*, The City University of New York, CSI
  Haydee Herrera, Rutgers University, Camden
  (1000-53-127)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The geometry of compact homogeneous spaces with two isotropy summands.
  William Dickinson, Grand Valley State University
  Megan M. Kerr*, Wellesley College
  (1000-53-142)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Conformally-Einstein K\"ahler metrics on compact manifolds with boundary.
  Gideon Maschler*, University of Toronto
  (1000-53-178)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Interactions in Riemannian Geometry, III
Room 324, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Charles P. Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On Lagrangian Catenoids.
  David E. Blair*, Michigan State University
  Alfonso Carriazo, Universidad de Sevilla
  (1000-53-149)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Isoparametric hypersurfaces by Lie sphere geometry.
  Gary R. Jensen*, Washington University
  Thomas E. Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
  Quo-Shin Chi, Washington University
  (1000-53-117)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Weyl curvature and almost Kahler geometry.
  Tedi Draghici*, Florida International University
  (1000-53-59)
- 10:30 a.m.
  K-nullity interactions with contact metric geometry.
  Philippe Rukimbira*, Florida International University
  (1000-53-80)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Interactions in Riemannian Geometry, IV
Room 324, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Charles P. Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Non-zero contact and Sasakian reduction.
  Oana Dr\u agulete, EPFL (Lausanne) and University "Politehnica" of Bucharest
  Liviu Ornea*, University of Bucharest (Romania) and UNM at Albuquerque
  (1000-53-30)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Kodaira surface, its extended deformation and mirror image.
  Yat Sun Poon*, University of California, Riverside
  (1000-53-95)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Dirac structures and Riemannian Geometry.
  Aissa Wade*, Penn State University
  (1000-53-147)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Deformations of Hypercomplex Structures associated to Heisenberg Groups.
  G Grantcharov*, Florida International University
  H. Pedersen, Southern Denmark University
  Y.S. Poon, University of California Riverside
  (1000-53-118)
- 5:00 p.m.
  $p$-harmonic morphisms, minimal foliations, and rigidity of metrics.
  Ye-Lin Ou*, University of Oklahoma, USA.
  (1000-53-85)

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