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.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Ricci Flow/Riemannian Geometry, I
Room 1119, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Guofang Wei, University of California Santa Barbara wei@math.ucsb.edu
Rugang Ye, University of California Santa Barbara yer@math.ucsb.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On modified Ricci flow and modified Calabi flow.
  Zhuang-dan Daniel Guan*, University of California at Riverside
  (1007-35-84)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Linear and dynamical stability of Ricci flat metrics.
  Natasa Sesum*, Courant Institute
  (1007-53-91)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Wasserstein space and Ricci flow.
  John Lott*, University of Michigan
  (1007-58-105)

Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Ricci Flow/Riemannian Geometry, II
Room 1119, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Guofang Wei, University of California Santa Barbara wei@math.ucsb.edu
Rugang Ye, University of California Santa Barbara yer@math.ucsb.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A parabolic relative volume comparison theorem.
  Lei Ni*, UCSD
  (1007-58-93)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Positivity of Ricci curvature under the K\"ahler--Ricci flow.
  Dan F Knopf*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1007-53-52)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Ricci flow on homogeneous 4-manifolds.
  James Isenberg, Univ of Oregon
  Martin Jackson, University of Puget Sound
  Peng Lu*, Univ of Oregon
  (1007-53-54)

Sunday April 17, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ricci Flow/Riemannian Geometry, III
Room 1119, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Guofang Wei, University of California Santa Barbara wei@math.ucsb.edu
Rugang Ye, University of California Santa Barbara yer@math.ucsb.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Generic Properties of Closed Parametrized Minimal Surfaces in Riemannian Manifolds.
  John Douglas Moore*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1007-53-189)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Qualitative Properties of Solutions to the Yamabe Problem.
  Marcus A Khuri*, Stanford University
  (1007-53-110)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Orbifolds and collapsing.
  Yu Ding*, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
  (1007-53-155)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Far Homotopies and the Tangent Cone at Infinity.
  Will Wylie*, UCSB
  (1007-53-238)

Sunday April 17, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Ricci Flow/Riemannian Geometry, IV
Room 1119, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Guofang Wei, University of California Santa Barbara wei@math.ucsb.edu
Rugang Ye, University of California Santa Barbara yer@math.ucsb.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Calibrated Exceptional Geometry.
  Weiqing Gu*, Harvey Mudd College
  (1007-53-235)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Convergence of manifolds with lower Ricci and $L^1$ sectional curvature bounds.
  Chadwick Sprouse*, California State University Northridge Department of Mathematics
  (1007-53-148)

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