AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 11, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Riemannian and Lorentzian Geometries, I
Room 422, Public Affairs Center
Organizers:
Ramesh Sharma, University of New Haven rsharma@newhaven.edu
Philippe Rukimbira, Florida International University rukim@fiu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On a class of homogeneous spaces with nonnegative curvature.
  Megan M Kerr*, Wellesley College
  (1042-53-210)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Causal boundary of static-complete spacetimes.
  Steven G. Harris*, Saint Louis University
  (1042-53-240)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Causality, refocussing and linking.
  Vladimir Chernov*, Mathematics Department, Dartmouth College
  Yuli Rudyak, Mathematics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville
  (1042-53-05)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Sasaki metrics with an additional contact structure.
  Tedi Draghici*, Florida International University
  Philippe Rukimbira, Florida International University
  (1042-53-116)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Conformal actions of nilpotent groups on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.
  Karin H Melnick*, Yale University
  (1042-53-52)

Saturday October 11, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Riemannian and Lorentzian Geometries, II
Room 422, Public Affairs Center
Organizers:
Ramesh Sharma, University of New Haven rsharma@newhaven.edu
Philippe Rukimbira, Florida International University rukim@fiu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Timelike Christoffel pairs in the Split-Quaternions.
  Martha Dussan, Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Matemática -IME.
  Martin Magid*, Department of Mathematics, Wellesley College
  (1042-53-39)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Refocussing of Light Rays in Spacetime.
  Paul A. Kinlaw*, Dartmouth College
  (1042-53-37)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Non-Walker self-dual neutral Einstein four-manifolds of Petrov type III.
  Andrzej Derdzinski*, Ohio State University
  (1042-53-163)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Gluing constructions in general relativity.
  Iva Stavrov*, Lewis and Clark College
  (1042-83-24)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Manifolds with positive curvature.
  Owen Dearricott*, University of California, Riverside
  (1042-53-241)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Neutral hypercomplex structures in dimension four.
  Johann Davidov, Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  Gueo Grantcharov*, Florida International University
  Oleg Mushkarov, Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  (1042-53-128)

Sunday October 12, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Riemannian and Lorentzian Geometries, III
Room 422, Public Affairs Center
Organizers:
Ramesh Sharma, University of New Haven rsharma@newhaven.edu
Philippe Rukimbira, Florida International University rukim@fiu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The 1-Nullity of Sasakian Manifolds.
  Philippe Rukimbira*, Florida International University
  (1042-53-36)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Conformal geometry of contact metric manifolds.
  Ramesh Sharma*, University Of New Haven
  (1042-53-10)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some results on 4 dimensional austere submanifolds. .
  Marianty Ionel*, University of Toledo
  (1042-53-244)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 10:00 a.m.
  An invariant of Einstein conformally compact Kähler metrics.
  Gideon Maschler*, Clark University
  (1042-53-245)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion.

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