AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, I
Room MG 28, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Anders Ingemar Linner, Northern Illinois University linner@math.northwestern.edu
Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Skew loops and hyperboloids.
  Bruce Solomon*, Indiana University
  (1001-53-313)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Magnetic systems with the same geodesics.
  Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
  Vladimir Matveev, Universitaet Freiburg
  (1001-53-338)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Closed, Knotted and Symmetric Solutions of the Vortex Filament Equation.
  Thomas A. Ivey*, College of Charleston
  Annalisa M. Calini, College of Charleston
  (1001-53-107)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Elastic energy and variable length.
  Anders Linner*, Northern Illinois University/Northwestern
  (1001-58-418)

Saturday October 23, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, II
Room MG 28, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Anders Ingemar Linner, Northern Illinois University linner@math.northwestern.edu
Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Positive harmonic function on open manifolds with non-positive curvature.
  Jianguo Cao*, University of Notre Dame,
  Huijun Fan, Peking University
  Francois Leddreppier, Univeristy of Notre Dame
  (1001-58-220)
- 3:30 p.m.
  K-Surfaces (smooth and discrete) of non-finite type.
  Ivan Charles Sterling*, St Mary's College of Maryland
  (1001-53-265)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Soliton surfaces in the mechanical equilibrium of closed membranes.
  Brian Smyth*, University of Notre Dame
  (1001-53-271)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Spectral properties of the Fourier-Mukai transform.
  James F. Glazebrook*, Eastern Illinois University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Marcos Jardim, IMECC-UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
  Franz W. Kamber, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1001-58-15)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Dupin hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures.
  Thomas E Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
  Quo-Shin Chi, Washington University
  Gary R Jensen*, Washington University
  (1001-53-238)

Sunday October 24, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, III
Room MG 28, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Anders Ingemar Linner, Northern Illinois University linner@math.northwestern.edu
Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Cylindrical Contact Homology of Subcritical Stein-fillable Contact Manifolds.
  Mei-Lin Yau*, Michigan State University
  (1001-57-36)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Mixed Dimensional Compactness and $\mathbb{R}^n X \mathbb{S} ^{n-1}$ Sphere Bundle Measures.
  Simon P Morgan*, University of Minnesota
  (1001-53-09)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Theorema Egregium for $\nu$-Gaussian curvatures.
  Matias Navarro*, Facultad de Matematicas, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan
  F Sanchez-Bringas, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
  (1001-53-34)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Comparison theorems for generalized Riccati equations and applications.
  Libin Mou*, Bradley University
  (1001-53-214)

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