AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 29, 2006 00:28:48

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Global Perspectives on the Geometry of Riemann Surfaces, I
Room G16, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Eran Makover, Central Connecticut State University makovere@ccsu.edu
Jeffrey K. McGowan, Central Connecticut State University mcgowan@ccsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Geodesics on quilted flute surfaces.
  Perry Susskind*, Connecticut College
  Andy Haas, University of Connecticut
  (1017-30-140)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The distribution of geodesic excursions.
  Andy Haas*, University of Connecticut
  (1017-30-96)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Determinants of laplacians over Riemann surfaces in flat metrics with conical singularities.
  Dmitry Korotkin*, Concordia University
  (1017-53-88)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break.
- 4:30 p.m.
  How large can the first eigenvalue be on a surface of genus two?
  Dmitry Jakobson*, McGill University
  I Polterevich, University of Montreal
  M Levitin, Heriot-Watt University
  N Nadirashvili, University of Chicago
  N Nigam, McGill University
  (1017-58-66)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Fundamental tone, volume concentration and conformal degeneracy.
  Alexandre Girouard*, University of Montreal
  (1017-53-15)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Sharp upper bounds for the first eigenvalue on surfaces and mixed isospectrality.
  Iosif Polterovich*, University of Montreal
  (1017-58-61)

Sunday April 23, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Global Perspectives on the Geometry of Riemann Surfaces, II
Room G16, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Eran Makover, Central Connecticut State University makovere@ccsu.edu
Jeffrey K. McGowan, Central Connecticut State University mcgowan@ccsu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  From left earthquakes to right earthquakes.
  Jun Hu*, Brooklyn College CUNY
  (1017-37-122)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Boundary homeomorphisms of trans-quasiconformal maps.
  Saeed Zakeri*, Queens College CUNY
  (1017-30-62)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Spectral asymptotics through elliptic degeneration.
  Jay Jorgenson*, The City College of New York
  Rolf Lundelius, Western Asset Management
  (1017-11-76)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Scaling Functions.
  Fred Gardiner*, CUNY Graduate Center
  Yuanping Jiang, Queens College and Graduate Center CUNY
  Guizhen Cui, Academia Sinica, Beijing
  (1017-30-63)

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