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, 9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Index Theory, Morse Theory, and the Witten Deformation Method, I
Room L 221, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Igor Prokhorenkov, Texas Christian University i.prokhorenkov@tcu.edu
Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University k.richardson@tcu.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Kirwan-Novikov inequalities on a manifold with boundary.
  Maxim Braverman*, Northeastern University
  (1001-58-345)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Topology of Quasiperiodic Functions on the Plane.
  Sergey P Novikov*, IPST and Math Department, University of Maryland, College Park
  (1001-37-381)

Saturday October 23, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Index Theory, Morse Theory, and the Witten Deformation Method, II
Room L 221, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Igor Prokhorenkov, Texas Christian University i.prokhorenkov@tcu.edu
Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University k.richardson@tcu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Morse inequalities for orbit spaces.
  Jes\'us A. \'Alvarez L\'opez*, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  Manuel Calaza Cabanas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  (1001-58-209)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Laplace Transforms, Dynamics and Spectral Geometry.
  Dan Burghelea*, OSU, Columbus, OH
  Stefan Haller, Depatment of mathematics, University of Vienna
  (1001-58-189)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The geometric complex of a Morse--Bott--Smale pair and an extension of a theorem by Bismut--Zhang.
  Dan Burghelea, The Ohio State University
  Stefan Haller*, University of Vienna
  (1001-57-111)

Sunday October 24, 2004, 9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Index Theory, Morse Theory, and the Witten Deformation Method, III
Room L 221, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Igor Prokhorenkov, Texas Christian University i.prokhorenkov@tcu.edu
Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University k.richardson@tcu.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Equivalence of spectral projections in semiclassical limit and a vanishing theorem for higher traces in $K$-theory.
  Yuri Kordyukov, Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia
  Varghese Mathai, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
  Mikhail Shubin*, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
  (1001-58-70)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Morse Inequalitites, A Path Space Approach.
  Ionel Popescu*, Northwestern University / MIT
  (1001-53-427)

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