AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 22, 2008 00:20:42

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

Saturday March 15, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Geometric Inequalities, I
Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
Organizers:
Fengbo Hang, Princeton University fhang@math.princeton.edu
Xiaodong Wang, Michigan State University xwang@math.msu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  An approximation theorem for prescribing Q-curvature equations on riemannian manifolds.
  Lei Zhang*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (1036-35-75)
- 8:45 a.m.
  Conformally compact Einstein manifolds.
  Szu-yu Sophie Chen*, University of California, Berkeley
  Alice Chang, Princeton University
  Paul Yang, Princeon University
  (1036-35-139)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Affine Moser-Trudinger and Morrey-Sobolev inequalities.
  Andrea Cianchi, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universit\`a di Firenze
  Erwin Lutwak, Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic University
  Deane Yang, Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic University
  Gaoyong Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic University
  (1036-46-82)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Hessian equations and inequalities.
  Igor E. Verbitsky*, School of Math., University of Birmingham, UK, and Dept. of Math., University of Missouri-Columbia
  (1036-35-79)

Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Geometric Inequalities, II
Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
Organizers:
Fengbo Hang, Princeton University fhang@math.princeton.edu
Xiaodong Wang, Michigan State University xwang@math.msu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The quermassintegral inequalities for starshaped domains.
  Junfang Li*, CRM and McGill University
  (1036-35-132)
- 3:15 p.m.
  On the classification of gradient Ricci solitons.
  William Wylie*, UCLA
  (1036-53-150)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On Keller-Rubinstein-Sternberg's problem.
  Fanghua Lin, New York University
  Xingbin Pan, Eastern China Normal Unviersity
  Changyou Wang*, Unviersity of Kentucky
  (1036-35-179)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Smoothness of solutions of some classes of semilinear elliptic degenerate equations.
  Tri Minh Nguyen*, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  (1036-35-43)

Sunday March 16, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Geometric Inequalities, III
Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
Organizers:
Fengbo Hang, Princeton University fhang@math.princeton.edu
Xiaodong Wang, Michigan State University xwang@math.msu.edu
- 8:30 p.m.
  Reflector problem in $\Bbb R^n$ endowed with non-Euclidean norm.
  Luis A. Caffarelli, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
  Qingbo Huang*, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Wright State University
  (1036-35-106)
- 9:20 p.m.
  Some special boundary value problems for the complex Monge-Ampere equation.
  Bo Guan*, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University
  (1036-35-190)
- 10:10 p.m.
  Curvature and continuity of optimal transport.
  Young-Heon Kim*, University of Toronto
  (1036-35-08)

Sunday March 16, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Geometric Inequalities, IV
Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
Organizers:
Fengbo Hang, Princeton University fhang@math.princeton.edu
Xiaodong Wang, Michigan State University xwang@math.msu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Problems in General Relativity.
  Marcus A. Khuri*, Stony Brook University
  (1036-83-148)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Isometric embeddings and quasi-local mass.
  Mu-Tao Wang*, Columbia University
  Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University
  (1036-53-156)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Applications of Geometric Inequalities to the topology of manifolds with nonnegative Ricci Curvature.
  Michael Munn*, CUNY Graduate Center
  Christina Sormani, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College
  (1036-58-100)

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