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, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Isoperimetric Problems and PDE, I
Room 102, Warren Weaver Hall
Organizers:
Bernd Kawohl, University of Cologne kawohl@math.uni-koeln.de
Marcello Lucia, City University of New York mlucia@math.csi.cuny.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  A comparison principle, a Liouville theorem and applications.
  Yanyan Li*, Rutgers University
  (1036-35-50)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Inequalities on CR manifolds and nilpotent groups.
  Sagun Chanillo*, Rutgers University
  (1036-53-22)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An approximation theorem for prescribing Q-curvature equations on riemannian manifolds.
  Lei Zhang*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (1036-58-47)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Moment, entropy and Fisher information inequalities.
  Erwin Lutwak*, Polytechnic University
  Deane Yang, Polytechnic University
  Gaoyong Zhang, Polytechnic University
  (1036-52-83)

Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Isoperimetric Problems and PDE, II
Room 102, Warren Weaver Hall
Organizers:
Bernd Kawohl, University of Cologne kawohl@math.uni-koeln.de
Marcello Lucia, City University of New York mlucia@math.csi.cuny.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Minimum Cuts and Maximum Area.
  Gilbert Strang*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1036-49-21)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some results about Cheeger sets: uniqueness and nonuniqueness.
  Enea Parini*, University of Cologne
  (1036-35-19)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some Simple Inequalities: Best Constants and Minimizing Functions.
  Florin Catrina*, St John's University
  (1036-35-18)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Isoperimetric problem for the free plate eigenvalue.
  L. M. Chasman*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1036-35-25)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Faber-Krahn inequality for the $p$-Laplacian operator in a Minkowski metric.
  Bernd Kawohl*, Mathematical Institute, University of Cologne, D 50923 Cologne, Germany
  (1036-49-15)

Sunday March 16, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Isoperimetric Problems and PDE, III
Room 102, Warren Weaver Hall
Organizers:
Bernd Kawohl, University of Cologne kawohl@math.uni-koeln.de
Marcello Lucia, City University of New York mlucia@math.csi.cuny.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Minimal surfaces in hyperbolic space and renormalized area.
  Spyros Alexakis*, University of Princeton
  (1036-53-81)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Hamiltonian identities for Elliptic PDEs and its application.
  Changfeng Gui*, University of Connecticut
  (1036-35-116)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Radial symmetry of solutions to systems of higher order semilinear PDE.
  Michael Kiessling*, Rutgers University
  (1036-35-61)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Symmetry properties of extremals for the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality in dimension two.
  Gabriella Tarantello*, University of Rome Tor Vergata
  (1036-35-70)

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