AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 11, 2006 00:30:38

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday November 4, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Subelliptic PDEs and Sub-Riemannian Geometry, I
Room 604, Science and Engineering Building
Organizers:
Luca Capogna, University of Arkansas lcapogna@uark.edu
Scott Pauls, Dartmouth College
Jeremy T. Tyson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- 8:00 a.m.
  On Subelliptic Aronsson's Equation.
  Changyou Wang*, University of Kentucky
  (1022-35-159)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Metric normal and curvatures in the Heisenberg group.
  Fausto Ferrari*, University of Bologna, Italy
  (1022-35-46)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Newman problem for the Infinite Laplacian and Optimal Mass Transportation.
  Jesus Garcia-Azorero, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.
  Juan J Manfredi*, University of Pittsburgh
  Ireneo Peral, Universida Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
  Julio D Rossi, Universida Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.
  (1022-35-140)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Hessian of the distance function in the Heisenberg group.
  Nicola Arcozzi*, University of Bologna
  Fausto Ferrari, University of Bologna
  (1022-20-121)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A comparison principle for parabolic equations in the Heisenberg group.
  Thomas Bieske*, University of South Florida
  (1022-35-122)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion.

Saturday November 4, 2006, 1:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Special Session on Subelliptic PDEs and Sub-Riemannian Geometry, II
Room 604, Science and Engineering Building
Organizers:
Luca Capogna, University of Arkansas lcapogna@uark.edu
Scott Pauls, Dartmouth College
Jeremy T. Tyson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- 1:30 p.m.
  A survey on recent progress on the Bernstein problem in the Heisenberg group.
  Donatella Danielli, Purdue University
  Nicola Garofalo, Purdue University
  Duy-Minh Nhieu*, Georgetown University
  Scott Pauls, Dartmouth University
  (1022-53-139)
- 2:00 p.m.
  The Liouville theorem for conformal maps in diagonal metrics of Grushin-type.
  Daniele Morbidelli*, Universita' di Bologna
  (1022-53-64)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Boundary Harnack principle and decay estimates for $p$-harmonic functions.
  Hiroaki Aikawa, Hokkaido University
  Tero Kilpelainen, University of Jyvaskyla
  Nageswari Shanmugalingam*, University of Cincinnati
  Xiao Zhong, University of Jyvaskyla
  (1022-31-38)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Measure density and extendability of Sobolev functions.
  Piotr Haj\l{}asz*, University of Pittsburgh
  Pekka Koskela, University of Jyvaskyla
  Heli Tuominen, University of Jyvaskyla
  (1022-46-160)

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