AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 23, 2005 00:22:16

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Physics, I
Room 1112, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Xianzhe Dai, University of California Santa Barbara dai@math.ucsb.edu
Zhiqin Lu, University of California Irvine zlu@math.uci.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Ideal boundary conditions, intersection cohomology and Leray spectral sequences.
  Eugenie Hunsicker*, Lawrence University
  (1007-58-69)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Constructing solutions to the Einstein constraint equations.
  Daniel Pollack*, University of Washington
  (1007-83-135)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On Boundary Effects in Static Vacuum Initial Data Sets.
  Pengzi Miao*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1007-83-97)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Symmetries of the m-hypergeometric function.
  Oleg A. Gleizer*, Los Angeles, California
  (1007-33-25)

Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Physics, II
Room 1112, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Xianzhe Dai, University of California Santa Barbara dai@math.ucsb.edu
Zhiqin Lu, University of California Irvine zlu@math.uci.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Elliptic operators on locally symmetric spaces.
  Rafe Mazzeo*, Stanford University
  (1007-58-112)
- 4:00 p.m.
  New K\"ahler-Einstein metrics on almost homogeneous manifolds, Calabi flows and extremal solitons.
  Zhuang-dan Daniel Guan*, University of California at Riverside
  (1007-53-83)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Conformal gap theorems and finiteness theorems.
  Alice Chang, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
  Jie Qing*, Department of Mathematics, UCSC
  Paul Yang, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
  (1007-53-195)

Sunday April 17, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Physics, III
Room 1112, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Xianzhe Dai, University of California Santa Barbara dai@math.ucsb.edu
Zhiqin Lu, University of California Irvine zlu@math.uci.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Mirror symmetry and Langlands duality in the mixed Hodge structure of character varieties of Riemann surfaces.
  Tamas Hausel*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1007-51-45)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Homological mirror symmetry for weighted projective spaces through constructible sheaves.
  Wei-Dong Ruan*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1007-53-74)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Analytic torsion near singular Calabi-Yau three-folds.
  Hao Fang*, Institute for Advanced Study
  Zhiqin Lu, UC Irvine
  Ken-Ichi Yoshikawa, University of Tokyo
  (1007-53-68)

Sunday April 17, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Physics, IV
Room 1112, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Xianzhe Dai, University of California Santa Barbara dai@math.ucsb.edu
Zhiqin Lu, University of California Irvine zlu@math.uci.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Sharp gradient estimate and Yau's Liouville theorem for the heat equation on noncompact manifolds.
  Philippe Souplet, Department of Mathematics, University of Picardie, France
  Qi S. Zhang*, Math. Dept. UC Riverside
  (1007-58-86)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Convexity of moment map and Chern number inequality.
  Naichung Conan Leung, University of Minnesota
  Xiaowei Wang*, UCLA
  (1007-14-207)

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