AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 18, 2008 00:36:13

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2008 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Middletown, CT, October 11-12, 2008 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1042

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

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Special Session on Analysis on Metric Measure Spaces and on Fractals

• Saturday October 11, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis on Metric Measure Spaces and on Fractals, I
  Room 201, Exley Science Center
  Organizers:
  Piotr Hajlasz, University of Pittsburgh hajlasz@pitt.edu
  Luke Rogers, University of Connecticut rogers@math.uconn.edu
  Robert S. Strichartz, Cornell University str@math.cornell.edu
  Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut teplyaev@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A lower bound for Conformal dimension.
    Hrant Hakobyan*, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
    (1042-28-220)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The resolvent kernel for pcf self-similar fractals.
    Marius Ionescu, Cornell University
    Erin P.J. Pearse, University of Iowa
    Luke G. Rogers, University of Connecticut
    Huo-Jun Ruan*, Zhejiang University and Cornell University
    Robert S. Strichartz, Cornell University
    (1042-28-100)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bounds for the resolvent of the Laplacian on post-critically finite self-similar fractals.
    Luke G. Rogers*, University of Connecticut
    (1042-46-188)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On pseudodifferential operators on fractals.
    Marius V Ionescu*, University of Connecticut
    Robert S Strichartz, Cornell University
    (1042-46-78)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Szegö limit theorems on the Sierpiński gasket.
    Kasso Okoudjou*, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland
    Luke Rogers, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut
    Robert Strichartz, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
    (1042-42-127)
• Saturday October 11, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis on Metric Measure Spaces and on Fractals, II
  Room 201, Exley Science Center
  Organizers:
  Piotr Hajlasz, University of Pittsburgh hajlasz@pitt.edu
  Luke Rogers, University of Connecticut rogers@math.uconn.edu
  Robert S. Strichartz, Cornell University str@math.cornell.edu
  Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut teplyaev@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Covering R-trees.
    Valera Berestovskii, Omsk Branch of Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
    Conrad Plaut*, University of Tennessee
    (1042-53-130)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quantum mechanics on fractals.
    Robert S. Strichartz*, Cornell University
    (1042-81-104)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Uniqueness of locally invariant Laplacian, Dirichlet form and Brownian motion on Sierpinski carpets.
    Alexander Teplyaev*, University of Connecticut
    (1042-60-148)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Weyl type spectral asymptotics for Laplacians on Sierpinski carpets.
    Naotaka Kajino*, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
    (1042-58-101)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Laplacian operator on Laakso spaces.
    Benjamin Steinhurst*, University of Connecticut
    (1042-46-117)
• Sunday October 12, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis on Metric Measure Spaces and on Fractals, III
  Room 201, Exley Science Center
  Organizers:
  Piotr Hajlasz, University of Pittsburgh hajlasz@pitt.edu
  Luke Rogers, University of Connecticut rogers@math.uconn.edu
  Robert S. Strichartz, Cornell University str@math.cornell.edu
  Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut teplyaev@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Derivations on Metric Measure Spaces.
    Jasun Gong*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1042-28-164)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lipschitz, Hölder and Sobolev surjections from Euclidean cubes.
    Piotr Hajlasz, University of Pittsburgh
    Jeremy Tyson*, University of Illinois
    (1042-46-95)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Regularity of certain minimal surfaces in the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group.
    Luca Capogna*, University of Arkansas
    (1042-35-27)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Density of Lipschitz maps in Sobolev spaces with Heisenberg group target.
    Piotr Hajlasz*, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mathematics
    Jeremy Tyson, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
    (1042-46-229)
• Sunday October 12, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis on Metric Measure Spaces and on Fractals, IV
  Room 201, Exley Science Center
  Organizers:
  Piotr Hajlasz, University of Pittsburgh hajlasz@pitt.edu
  Luke Rogers, University of Connecticut rogers@math.uconn.edu
  Robert S. Strichartz, Cornell University str@math.cornell.edu
  Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut teplyaev@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Homotopies of eigenfunctions, and the spectrum of the Laplacian on the Sierpinski carpet.
    Steven M. Heilman*, Cornell University
    Robert S. Strichartz, Cornell University
    (1042-46-175)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Approximation of the spectrum of the Laplacian operator on some Laakso spaces.
    Kevin Romeo*, University of Connecticut
    (1042-41-113)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Spectral Operators on Vicsek Sets.
    Sarah Constantin, Princeton University
    Miles Wheeler*, Cornell University
    (1042-35-71)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Laplacians on Julia Sets.
    Taryn C. Flock*, Yale University
    Robert S. Strichartz, Cornell University
    (1042-28-110)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Spectral Decimation on the m-Branch Tree.
    Daniel J. Ford*, Providence College
    Benjamin Steinhurst, University of Connecticut
    (1042-47-114)

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