AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, April 17, 2006 00:33:27

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

Saturday April 8, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, I
Room 208, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame Jianguo.Cao.7@nd.edu
Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame Xiaobo.Liu.43@nd.edu
Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame Brian.B.Smyth.1@nd.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Rigidity Theorems in Finsler Geometry.
  Zhongmin Shen*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
  (1016-53-108)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Insecurity and the growth of the number of geodesics between two points in a Riemannian manifold.
  Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
  Eugene Gutkin, IMPA
  (1016-53-238)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Harmonic 2-forms on cohomogeneity one 4-manifolds.
  Eduard Chiru, OSU-Lima
  Ji-Ping Sha*, Indiana University
  (1016-53-193)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Break
- 10:30 a.m.
  Long-time behaviour of type-III Ricci flow solutions.
  John W Lott*, University of Michigan
  (1016-58-107)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Concentration properties for eigenfunctions of the Laplacian.
  Harold Gerard Donnelly*, Purdue University
  (1016-58-28)

Saturday April 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, II
Room 208, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame Jianguo.Cao.7@nd.edu
Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame Xiaobo.Liu.43@nd.edu
Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame Brian.B.Smyth.1@nd.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Gromov-Witten Invariants via Deformations of Kahler Surfaces.
  Thomas H Parker*, Michigan State University
  Junho Lee, Michigan State University
  (1016-58-294)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Classification of the singularities of Witten equation.
  Huijun Fan*, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
  Tyler Jarvis, Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602
  Yongbin Ruan, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
  (1016-53-99)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break
- 4:30 p.m.
  Stringy K-theory.
  Takashi Kimura*, Boston University
  (1016-53-192)

Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, III
Room 208, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame Jianguo.Cao.7@nd.edu
Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame Xiaobo.Liu.43@nd.edu
Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame Brian.B.Smyth.1@nd.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Characteristic Classes of Bad Orbifold Vector Bundles.
  Christopher W Seaton*, Rhodes College
  (1016-53-157)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Floer homology for Almost Hamiltonian Isotopies.
  Christopher L. Saunders*, Westminster College
  (1016-53-17)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Q-curvature functions for Ricci flat manifolds.
  Yuxin Ge, Storrs, CT
  Xingwang Xu*, Storrs, CT
  (1016-58-217)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Break
- 10:00 a.m.
  Associative submanifolds of a G2 Manifold.
  Selman Akbulut*, Michigan State University
  Sema Salur, Northwestern University
  (1016-53-264)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Calibrated Geometries.
  Sema Salur*, Northwestern University
  (1016-53-244)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Characterizing Diffeomorphisms by the Topology of the Pullback of Hyperplane Foliations.
  Eduardo Cabral Balreira*, University of Notre Dame
  (1016-58-100)

Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, IV
Room 208, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame Jianguo.Cao.7@nd.edu
Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame Xiaobo.Liu.43@nd.edu
Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame Brian.B.Smyth.1@nd.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Rigidity of the Identity.
  Frederico Xavier*, University of Notre Dame
  (1016-32-274)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some Geometric Aspects of Nonlinear PDE's.
  Hongyou Wu*, Northern Illinois University
  (1016-53-96)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Special Hypersurfaces in $CP^2$ and $CH^2$.
  Thomas A. Ivey*, College of Charleston
  Patrick J. Ryan, McMaster University
  (1016-53-13)

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