AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 11, 2009 00:27:58

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday April 4, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Differential Equations, I
Room 160, Withers Hall
Organizers:
Thomas A. Ivey, College of Charleston
Irina A. Kogan, North Carolina State University iakogan@ncsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Cartan's equivalence method and singularity analysis.
  Raouf Dridi*, Czech Technical University
  (1048-34-221)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Integrability of 2nd order PDE and the geometry of $GL(2,\mathbb{R})$-structures.
  Abraham D. Smith*, Duke University
  (1048-53-05)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Maximally symmetric hyperbolic equations of generic type.
  Dennis The*, Texas A&M University
  (1048-53-109)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Geometry of control-affine systems in low dimensions.
  Jeanne Clelland*, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Christopher Moseley, Calvin College
  George Wilkens, University of Hawaii, Manoa
  (1048-53-280)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On projective equivalence of univariate polynomial subspaces.
  Robert Milson*, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
  (1048-22-102)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Lie point symmetries and numerical solutions of differential equations.
  Pavel Winternitz*, Universite de Montreal
  (1048-34-247)

Saturday April 4, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Differential Equations, II
Room 160, Withers Hall
Organizers:
Thomas A. Ivey, College of Charleston
Irina A. Kogan, North Carolina State University iakogan@ncsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Green's function for the Hodge Laplacian on some classes of Riemannian and Lorentzian symmetric spaces.
  Niky Kamran*, McGill University
  (1048-53-229)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Klein geometry, group invariant soliton equations, and bi-Hamiltonian geometric curve flows.
  Stephen Anco*, Brock University
  (1048-35-364)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Moving frames, variational problems, and geometric flows.
  Peter J Olver*, University of Minnesota
  (1048-58-57)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the preservation of invariants of arc-length type by geometric Hamiltonian curve flows.
  Gloria Mari Beffa*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (1048-53-82)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Geometry of Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.
  Kris Jenssen*, Penn State University
  Irina Kogan, North Carolina State University
  (1048-35-68)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Austere Submanifolds of Dimension 4.
  Marianty Ionel*, University of Toledo
  Thomas Ivey, College of Charleston
  (1048-53-372)

Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Differential Equations, III
Room 160, Withers Hall
Organizers:
Thomas A. Ivey, College of Charleston
Irina A. Kogan, North Carolina State University iakogan@ncsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  A fresh look at Darboux integrability for hyperbolic second-order differential equation in the plane.
  Martin Juras*, Qatar University
  (1048-35-75)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Symmetry classification of General rank-3 Pfaffian systems in 5-dimension.
  Francesco Strazzullo*, Utah State University
  (1048-35-166)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Pseudogroups, Moving Frames, and Invariant Variational Principles.
  Juha Pohjanpelto*, Oregon State University
  (1048-58-161)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Bäcklund Transformations via Symmetry Reduction.
  Ian Anderson*, Utah State Univ.
  Mark Fels, Utah State Univ.
  (1048-53-153)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hamilton-Jacobi theory in Minkowski space via Cartan geometry.
  Roman Smirnov*, Dalhousie University
  (1048-53-310)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Stability of Relative Equilibria of Discrete Nonholonomic Systems.
  Cameron Lynch, North Carolina State University
  Dmitry V Zenkov*, North Carolina State University
  (1048-70-288)

Sunday April 5, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Differential Equations, IV
Room 160, Withers Hall
Organizers:
Thomas A. Ivey, College of Charleston
Irina A. Kogan, North Carolina State University iakogan@ncsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Special classes of symmetry reductions for PDEs involving arbitrary functions.
  Nicoleta Virginia Bila*, Fayetteville State University
  (1048-35-118)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On Sections and Curvature for Super Yang-Mills Theory.
  James S. Cook*, Liberty University
  Ronald O. Fulp, North Carolina State University
  (1048-51-33)

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