AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

2004 Fall Western Section Meeting
Albuquerque, NM, October 16-17, 2004
Meeting #1000

• 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)