AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 29, 2005 01:24:04

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

Friday October 21, 2005, 1:45 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
Special Session on Scattering and Spectral Problems in Geometry, I
Room 307, Oldfather Hall
Organizers:
Peter A. Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu
Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan uribe@umich.edu
- 2:15 p.m.
  Some Results Concerning Periodic Operators in High Contrast Media.
  J L Selden*, University of Northern Iowa
  (1011-35-360)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Exotic expansions and pathological properties of $\zeta$-functions on conic manifolds.
  Paul Loya*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
  Klaus Kirsten, Baylor University
  Jinsung Park, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
  (1011-58-91)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Rays of minimal growth for elliptic cone operators.
  Juan B. Gil, Penn State Altoona
  Thomas Krainer, Univerist\"at Potsdam, Germany
  Gerardo A. Mendoza*, Temple University
  (1011-58-89)

Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Scattering and Spectral Problems in Geometry, II
Room 205, Burnett Hall
Organizers:
Peter A. Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu
Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan uribe@umich.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Sharp upper bounds on the number of scattering poles.
  Plamen Stefanov*, Purdue University
  (1011-35-94)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The resonance counting function for Schr\"odinger operators in odd dimensions.
  T. Christiansen*, University of Missouri
  P. D. Hislop, University of Kentucky
  (1011-35-67)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Semiclassical Scattering Amplitude at a Maximum Point of the Potential.
  Ivana Alexandrova*, University of Toronto
  Jean-Francois Bony, Universite Bordeaux
  Thierry Ramond, Universite Paris-Sud
  (1011-35-194)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Inverse spectral results on even dimensional tori.
  Carolyn S Gordon*, Dartmouth College
  Pierre Guerini, Institut f\"ur Mathematik, Universit\"at Z\"urich-Irchel\
  Thomas Kappeler, Institut f\"ur Mathematik, Universit\"at Z\"urich-Irchel\
  David L Webb, Dartmouth College
  (1011-58-367)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Compactness of Isospectral Potentials.
  Harold G Donnelly*, Purdue University
  (1011-58-20)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Maximal $L^{\infty}$-bounds for modes and quasimodes of the Laplacian.
  John A Toth*, McGill University
  (1011-35-101)

Saturday October 22, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Scattering and Spectral Problems in Geometry, III
Room 205, Burnett Hall
Organizers:
Peter A. Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu
Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan uribe@umich.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The wave invariants on two-step nilmanifolds.
  Ruth Gornet*, University of Texas at Arlington
  (1011-53-148)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Singularities of the Wave Trace of the Basic Laplacian on a Riemannian Foliation.
  M. R. Sandoval*, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
  (1011-58-143)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Why should we care about projectively flat connections?
  William D Kirwin*, University of Notre Dame
  (1011-51-165)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Spectral Theory of Pattern-Avoiding Permutations.
  Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky
  Sergey Kitaev, Reykjavik University
  Peter A Perry*, University of Kentucky
  (1011-05-252)

Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
Special Session on Scattering and Spectral Problems in Geometry, IV
Room 205, Burnett Hall
Organizers:
Peter A. Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu
Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan uribe@umich.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Determinant of Laplacian associated to a Kleinian group.
  Andrew McIntyre*, Centre de recherches math\'ematiques
  (1011-58-350)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Linearized boundary distance rigidity problem and Dirichlet-to-Neumann map.
  Vladimir A. Sharafutdinov*, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
  (1011-58-139)

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