AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Thursday, November 2, 2006 00:39:18

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

Saturday October 28, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Analysis, I
Room 127, Information Technology Engineering Building
Organizers:
Jesse Ratzkin, University of Connecticut ratzkin@math.uconn.edu
Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts kusner@math.umass.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Manifolds with Ricci Curvature Bounded Below.
  Christina A Sormani*, Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center
  (1021-58-140)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rigidity and flexibility of homogeneous varieties.
  C. Robles*, Texas A&M University
  J.M. Landsberg, Texas A&M University
  (1021-53-200)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Volume minimization and estimates for isotropic submanifolds.
  Edward Goldstein*, Brandeis University
  (1021-53-45)

Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Analysis, II
Room 127, Information Technology Engineering Building
Organizers:
Jesse Ratzkin, University of Connecticut ratzkin@math.uconn.edu
Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts kusner@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Equivariant isospectrality and isospectral deformations of metrics on orbifolds.
  Craig J. Sutton*, Dartmouth College
  (1021-53-226)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Thread-wire Surfaces.
  Ben Stephens*, University of Toronto
  (1021-53-246)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Area of the Disk of Unduloids which Share a Fixed Axis.
  Eli Damon Cooper*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  (1021-53-188)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Ancient solutions for mean curvature flow.
  Maria Calle*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  (1021-53-84)

Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Analysis, III
Room 127, Information Technology Engineering Building
Organizers:
Jesse Ratzkin, University of Connecticut ratzkin@math.uconn.edu
Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts kusner@math.umass.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  A Rigidity result for Conformally Compact Manifolds with the round sphere as the Conformal Infinity.
  Satyaki Dutta*, State University of New York, StonyBrook
  (1021-53-157)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Minimal surfaces and isoperimetric domains in sub-Riemannian geometry.
  Robert K Hladky*, University of Rochester
  (1021-53-120)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Renormalization and blow up for charge one equivariant critical wave maps.
  Joachim Krieger*, Harvard University
  (1021-35-161)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A view on affine differential geometry from the perspective of illumination bodies.
  Alina Stancu*, Concordia University & University of Massachusetts Lowell
  (1021-53-169)

Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear Geometric PDEs, IV
Room 336, Information Technology Engineering Building
Organizers:
Jesse Ratzkin, University of Connecticut ratzkin@math.uconn.edu
Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts kusner@math.umass.edu
Wenxiong Chen, Yeshiva University
Zheng-Chao Han, Rutgers University
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the extinction profile of solutions to the fast diffusion.
  Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Columbia University
  Natasa Sesum*, Columbia University
  (1021-41-142)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Ancient Solutions of the Affine Normal Flow.
  John C Loftin*, Rutgers Newark
  Mao-Pei Tsui, University of Toledo
  (1021-35-219)
- 4:10 p.m.
  On the Penrose Inequality of General Relativity.
  Marcus A. Khuri*, Stony Brook University
  (1021-83-173)

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