AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 13, 2007 00:36:29

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

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, I
Room 8206, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Blocking geodesics -- a survey of recent results.
  Ben Schmidt*, U. of Chicago
  (1030-51-273)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Infinite-dimensional steepest descent flow invariants and related nonlinear ordinary differential equations.
  Anders Linn\'er*, Northern Illinois University
  (1030-58-146)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Optimization of the Distortion Energy Functional over Homotopy Classes of Diffeomorphisms.
  Oksana Bihun*, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia
  Carmen Chicone, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia
  (1030-53-24)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces with Symmetries.
  Hongyou Wu*, Northern Illinois University
  (1030-53-270)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Bismut's Formula for Heat Kernels and Its Generalizations.
  Elton P Hsu*, Northwestern University
  (1030-53-144)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Solution of first order second degree quadratic differential equation.
  Ali A. Salim*, Al nahrain University / faculity of engineering
  (1030-34-10)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Insecurity and the growth of the number of geodesics between two points.
  Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
  Eugene Gutkin, IMPA/Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika
  (1030-53-86)

Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, II
Room 8206, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Topology of nonnegatively curved Euclidean hypersurfaces spanning a prescribed boundary.
  Stephanie B. Alexander*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Mohammad Ghomi, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Jeremy A. Wong, University of Toronto
  (1030-53-369)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Harmonic Maps and the Rigidity of Discrete Groups.
  Theron J Hitchman*, University of Northern Iowa
  David Fisher, Indiana University
  (1030-53-253)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Asymptotic conditions for smooth rigidity.
  Chris Connell*, Indiana University
  (1030-53-365)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Symmetric planar intersections characterize quadrics among certain tubes in $\mathbf{R}^3$.
  Bruce Solomon*, Indiana University
  (1030-53-195)

Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, III
Room 8206, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Fake projective planes and fake Hermitian symmetric spaces.
  Sai-Kee Yeung*, Purdue University
  (1030-51-91)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Ergodic Frame Flow and Rank Rigidity.
  David Constantine*, University of Michigan
  (1030-53-213)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Subdifferentials of functions on metric spaces with convex tangent spaces.
  Libin Mou*, Bradley University
  (1030-53-419)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Theta lifts of eigenfunctions.
  Harold Gerard Donnelly*, Purdue University
  (1030-58-49)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Recovering parallel Jacobi fields from ultraflats.
  Jean-Francoise Lafont*, Ohio State University
  (1030-53-429)

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