AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 4, 2009 00:27:23

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2009 Spring Central Sectional Meeting
Urbana, IL, March 27-29, 2009 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1047

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

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Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications

• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, I
  Room 341, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Stephanie B. Alexander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stephanieb.alexander@gmail.com
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Quasilinearization, Euler's inequality and Aleksandrov's curvature.
    Igor G Nikolaev*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1047-53-253)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Conjugate points and non injectivity of the exponential map.
    Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
    Benjamin Schmidt, University of Chicago
    (1047-53-66)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Compact convex central cross-sections make surfaces quadric.
    Bruce M Solomon*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1047-53-271)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Leafwise entropy rigidity for foliations.
    Chris Connell*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Zhenyu Li, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1047-53-299)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Effective universal coverings and their applications.
    Alexander Nabutovsky*, University of Toronto
    (1047-53-150)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Short geodesic loops on complete Riemannian manifolds.
    Regina Rotman*, University of Toronto
    (1047-53-164)
• Saturday March 28, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, II
  Room 341, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Stephanie B. Alexander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stephanieb.alexander@gmail.com
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Nonuniform Thickness.
    Oguz C. Durumeric*, University of Iowa
    (1047-53-321)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Boundary effects and rigidity on compact manifolds with nonnegative or positive scalar curvature.
    Xiaodong Wang*, Michigan State University
    (1047-53-357)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Scalar Curvature Behavior of Kähler-Ricci Flow.
    Zhou Zhang*, University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor
    (1047-53-279)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Relative isometric embeddings of Riemannian manifolds.
    Mohammad Ghomi*, Georgia Tech
    Robert E Greene, UCLA
    (1047-53-296)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Volume growth and the topology of manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature.
    Michael Munn*, City University of New York
    (1047-53-37)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Collapsing manifolds-with-boundary.
    Jeremy Wong*, University of Georgia
    (1047-53-405)
• Saturday March 28, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, III
  Room 341, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Stephanie B. Alexander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stephanieb.alexander@gmail.com
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On uniqueness and non-uniqueness of souls.
    Igor Belegradek*, Georgia Tech
    Slawomir Kwasik, Tulane University
    Reinhard Schultz, University of California, Riverside
    (1047-53-67)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A New Convergence for Riemannian Manifolds.
    Christina Sormani*, Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center
    Stefan Wenger, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1047-58-133)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Convexity in sub-Riemannian Geometry and Its Applications.
    Kanghai Tan*, Science School, Nanjing University of Science & Technology
    (1047-53-352)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Rigidity of conformally compact manifolds with the round sphere as the conformal infinity.
    Satyaki Dutta, N/A
    Mohammad Javaheri*, Trinity College
    (1047-53-80)
• Sunday March 29, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, IV
  Room 341, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Stephanie B. Alexander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stephanieb.alexander@gmail.com
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Compactness for manifolds with bounded volume and diameter.
    Stefan Wenger*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1047-53-327)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A new proof to Perelman's collapsing theorem for geometrization of 3-manifolds.
    J. Cao, University of Notre Dame
    Jian Ge*, University of Notre Dame
    (1047-53-128)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Positive curvature and eigenfunctions of the Laplacian.
    Harold Gerard Donnelly*, Purdue University
    (1047-58-51)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On nonnegatively curved low-dimensional fixed point homogeneous Riemannian manifolds.
    Fernando Galaz-Garcia*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1047-53-120)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Yau's Conjecture on holomorphic functions of polynomial growth.
    Bing-Long Chen, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, P.R.C
    Xiao-Yong Fu*, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, P.R.C
    Le Yin, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, P.R.C
    Xi-Ping Zhu, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, P.R.C
    (1047-53-186)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Liouville-type Theorem in Alexandrov Spaces.
    Bobo Hua*, Fudan University, China
    (1047-58-305)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Projectively Flat Metrics.
    Zhongmin Shen*, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
    (1047-53-200)

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