AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 24, 2007 00:22:09

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday March 16, 2007, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Theory, Orbifolds, Symplectic Reduction and Quantization, I
Room 216, Culler Hall
Organizers:
William Kirwin, University of Notre Dame wkirwin@nd.edu
Christopher Seaton, Rhodes College seatonc@rhodes.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  When are there enough twisted orbifold vector bundles?
  Christopher Dwyer*, Binghamton University
  (1025-19-125)
- 10:30 a.m.
  An isospectral deformation on an orbifold quotient of a nilmanifold.
  Emily B. Proctor*, Middlebury College
  Elizabeth A. Stanhope, Lewis & Clark College
  (1025-53-59)

Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Theory, Orbifolds, Symplectic Reduction and Quantization, II
Room 216, Culler Hall
Organizers:
William Kirwin, University of Notre Dame wkirwin@nd.edu
Christopher Seaton, Rhodes College seatonc@rhodes.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Asymptotics of eigenvalue clusters for a perturbation of the hydrongen atom.
  Alejandro Uribe*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
  Carlos Villegas-Blas, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM, Unidad Cuernavaca, Mexico.
  (1025-81-166)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 4:00 p.m.
  Geometry of the index gerbe.
  Jerome A Jenquin*, Stony Brook University
  (1025-58-10)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Almost Kahler Quantization of the Thurston Manifold.
  William D Kirwin*, University of Notre Dame
  Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan
  (1025-53-216)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A Universal Property of the Group Spin^c.
  Shay Fuchs*, University of Toronto
  (1025-53-193)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Theory, Orbifolds, Symplectic Reduction and Quantization, III
Room 216, Culler Hall
Organizers:
William Kirwin, University of Notre Dame wkirwin@nd.edu
Christopher Seaton, Rhodes College seatonc@rhodes.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  You can't hear the isotropy type of an orbifold.
  N. Shams, Ann Arbor, MI
  E. Stanhope*, Lewis and Clark College
  D. L. Webb, Dartmouth College
  (1025-53-58)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Lie algebras and symplectic quotients.
  Tatyana Foth*, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  (1025-53-56)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Manifold Structure for the Group of Orbifold Diffeomorphisms of a Smooth Orbifold.
  Joseph E Borzellino*, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  Victor Brunsden, Penn State Altoona
  (1025-57-49)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Theory, Orbifolds, Symplectic Reduction and Quantization, IV
Room 216, Culler Hall
Organizers:
William Kirwin, University of Notre Dame wkirwin@nd.edu
Christopher Seaton, Rhodes College seatonc@rhodes.edu
- 3:30 p.m.
  Analysis and Geometry on Orbifolds.
  Carla Farsi*, University of Colorado
  (1025-46-189)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Hearing the weights of weighted projective planes.
  Miguel Abreu, Instituto Superior T\'{e}cnico, Lisboa
  Emily B. Dryden*, Bucknell University
  Pedro Freitas, TU Lisbon
  Leonor Godinho, Instituto Superior T\'{e}cnico, Lisboa
  (1025-58-21)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Euler classes for orbifolds.
  Christopher W Seaton*, Rhodes College
  (1025-53-241)

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