AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 21, 2007 00:26:11

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday October 13, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Structures on Manifolds, I
Room 223, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Charles Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Conjugate points on length spaces.
  Krishnan Shankar*, University of Oklahoma
  Christina Sormani, City University of New York (CUNY) Lehman
  (1032-53-111)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The energy of a K\"ahler class on admissible bundles.
  Santiago R Simanca, University of New Mexico
  Christina Wiis T{\o}nnesen-Friedman*, Union College
  (1032-58-75)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the contact Goldberg conjecture.
  Tedi Draghici*, Florida International University
  (1032-53-136)

Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Structures on Manifolds, II
Room 223, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Charles Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Classification of cohomogeneity one manifolds in low dimensions.
  Corey A. Hoelscher*, Rutgers University
  (1032-53-204)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Geometry of Filiform Nilpotent Lie Groups.
  Megan M Kerr*, Wellesley College
  Tracy L Payne, Idaho State University
  (1032-53-179)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Special K\"ahler-Ricci potentials and Ricci solitons.
  Gideon Maschler*, Emory University
  (1032-53-162)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Special Reeb vector fields on Sasaki manifolds.
  Santiago R. Simanca*, University of New Mexico
  (1032-58-151)

Sunday October 14, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Structures on Manifolds, III
Room 223, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Charles Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Examples of toric Sasakian-Einstein Manifolds.
  Craig C. van Coevering*, M. I. T.
  (1032-53-122)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quaternion-K\"ahler manifolds and $S^1$ actions.
  Haydee Herrera*, Rutgers University - Camden
  (1032-58-103)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On some problems concerning the conformal geometry of quaternionic contact structures.
  Dimiter Vassilev*, University of New Mexico
  (1032-51-113)

Sunday October 14, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Structures on Manifolds, IV
Room 223, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Charles Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Topological bounds for hyperk{\"a}hler manifolds.
  Justin Sawon*, Colorado State University
  (1032-53-77)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Quaternionic-K\"ahler reductions and Wolf spaces.
  Daniele Grandini*, University of New Mexico
  (1032-53-190)

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