AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 3, 2009 00:21:11

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

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday April 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Topology of Orbifolds, I
Room 210, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Elizabeth Stanhope, Lewis & Clark University stanhope@lclark.edu
Joseph E. Borzellino, California State University San Luis Obispo jborzell@calpoly.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Applications of heat invariants to 2-orbifolds.
  Sarah J Greenwald*, Appalachian State University
  Emily Dryden, Bucknell University
  Carolyn Gordon, Dartmouth College
  David Webb, Dartmouth College
  (1049-53-178)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Geodesics on weighted projective spaces.
  Victor Guillemin, MIT
  Alejandro Uribe, University of Michgan
  Zuoqin Wang*, Johns Hopkins University
  (1049-58-135)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Bounds on 2-orbifold diffeomorphism type.
  Emily B. Proctor*, Middlebury College
  Elizabeth A. Stanhope, Lewis & Clark College
  (1049-53-103)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cohomogeneity 3 Actions on the Sphere.
  J. McGowan*, Howard University
  C. Searle, Instituto de Matematicas Unidad Cuernavaca-UNAM
  (1049-53-97)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Non-negatively curved manifolds with maximal symmetry rank in low dimensions.
  Catherine E Searle*, IMATE-UNAM Cuernavaca
  Fernando Galaz-Garcia, U Maryland College Park
  (1049-53-158)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Connections between singular spaces: leaf spaces of Riemannian manifolds and orbifolds.
  Mary R Sandoval*, Trinity College
  (1049-58-105)

Saturday April 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Topology of Orbifolds, II
Room 210, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Elizabeth Stanhope, Lewis & Clark University stanhope@lclark.edu
Joseph E. Borzellino, California State University San Luis Obispo jborzell@calpoly.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Generalized twisted sectors and applications.
  Carla Farsi, University of Colorado at Boulder
  Christopher Seaton*, Rhodes College
  (1049-53-74)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generating Functions for Orbifold Wreath Products.
  Carla Farsi*, University of Colorado
  Christopher Seaton, Rhodes College
  (1049-58-75)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Lusternik-Schnirelmann category for orbifolds as Lie groupoids.
  Hellen Colman*, Wilbur Wright College
  (1049-55-78)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Stratified Structure of Spaces of Smooth Orbifold Mappings.
  Joseph E Borzellino, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
  Victor W Brunsden*, Penn State Altoona
  (1049-57-67)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Topology of Orbifolds, III
Room 210, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Elizabeth Stanhope, Lewis & Clark University stanhope@lclark.edu
Joseph E. Borzellino, California State University San Luis Obispo jborzell@calpoly.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Orbifolds and blowing up.
  Emily B. Dryden*, Bucknell University
  (1049-58-189)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Higher Index Theorems For Orbifolds.
  Markus J Pflaum*, University of Colorado at Boulder
  Hessel Posthuma, Korteweg-de Vries Institute, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Xiang Tang, Washington University, St. Louis
  (1049-58-59)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Cobordisms of Orbifolds.
  Andres Angel*, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics
  (1049-55-66)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Diameters of spherical $3$-orbifolds.
  William D. Dunbar*, Bard College at Simon's Rock
  Sarah J. Greenwald, Appalachian State University
  Jill McGowan, Howard University
  Catherine Searle, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  (1049-53-55)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On Volumes of Hyperbolic 4-Orbifolds.
  Ilesanmi Adeboye*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1049-57-64)
- 10:30 a.m.
  What is an orbifold graph, and what do they sound like?
  Karsten Gimre, Pacific University
  Indra Shottland, New College of Florida
  Elizabeth Stanhope*, Lewis & Clark College
  (1049-05-136)

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