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, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, I
Room 118, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Weimin Chen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst wchen@math.umass.edu
Michael G. Sullivan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sullivan@math.umass.edu
Hao Wu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst wu@math.umass.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the Morse Index of a Functional Arising in Contact Geometry.
  Abbas Bahri, Rutgers University, Math dept
  Yongzhong Xu*, Courant Institute, NYU
  (1017-53-191)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Existence of Engel structures.
  Thomas Vogel*, University of Pennsylvania/Institute for Advanced Study
  (1017-57-93)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Tight Beltrami fields with symmetry.
  Rafal Komendarczyk*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1017-51-114)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Reduction and duality in generalized geometry.
  Shengda Hu*, Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
  (1017-53-160)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Right veering diffeomorphisms of surfaces with boundary and.
  Ko Honda, University of Southern California
  William H. Kazez, University of Georgia
  Gordana Matic*, University of Georgia
  (1017-57-226)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, II
Room 118, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Weimin Chen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst wchen@math.umass.edu
Michael G. Sullivan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sullivan@math.umass.edu
Hao Wu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst wu@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Duality for Legendrian Contact Homology.
  Joshua M Sabloff*, Haverford College
  (1017-57-174)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Legendrian Torus Links.
  Jennifer Dalton, Bryn Mawr College
  John Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Lisa Traynor*, Bryn Mawr College
  (1017-53-198)
- 3:30 p.m.
  "Relative Framing of Transverse Knots".
  Vladimir V Chernov*, Dartmouth College
  (1017-57-07)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Genera of links in homology spheres.
  Yi Ni*, Princeton University
  (1017-57-67)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Smooth knot concordance invariants.
  Matthew Hedden*, MIT/Princeton
  (1017-51-26)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Transversal knots and Khovanov-Rozansky cohomology.
  Hao Wu*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (1017-57-211)

Sunday April 23, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, III
Room 118, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Weimin Chen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst wchen@math.umass.edu
Michael G. Sullivan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sullivan@math.umass.edu
Hao Wu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst wu@math.umass.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Symplectic embeddings in Euclidean spaces.
  Richard Keith Hind*, University of Notre Dame
  (1017-51-156)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Holomorphic graphs in singular Lagrangian torus fibrations.
  Brett Parker*, MIT
  (1017-58-130)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some remarks on holomorphic foliations.
  Chris Wendl*, MIT and University of Munich
  (1017-53-166)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Lagrangian correspondences and a Floer field theory.
  Katrin Wehrheim*, IAS Princeton
  (1017-54-44)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Relative Gromov radius: some results and conjectures.
  Octav Cornea*, Universite de Montreal
  (1017-53-94)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Bi-invariant metrics on the group of symplectomorphisms.
  Zhigang Han*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (1017-53-227)

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