AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 25, 2009 00:30:46

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

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

Friday October 16, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Global Analysis on Homogeneous Spaces, I
D105, Baylor Sciences Bldg
Organizers:
Ruth Gornett, University of Texas at Arlington rgornet@uta.edu
Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University k.richardson@tcu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Spaces of Smooth Orbifold Mappings.
  Joseph E Borzellino*, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  Victor Brunsden, Penn State Altoona
  (1051-57-45)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Geometric properties of Gromov-Witten varieties for homogeneous spaces.
  Leonardo C Mihalcea*, Baylor University
  Anders Buch, Rutgers University
  (1051-14-56)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Berezin Quantization of Quantum Homogeneous Spaces.
  Jeremy Sain*, Clarendon College
  (1051-47-89)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Riemannian submersions from simple, compact Lie groups.
  Martin Kerin, University of Muenster, Germany
  Krishnan Shankar*, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
  (1051-53-120)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Toda flows on homogeneous spaces.
  Barbara Shipman*, University of Texas at Arlington
  (1051-70-155)

Saturday October 17, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Global Analysis on Homogeneous Spaces, II
D105, Baylor Sciences Bldg
Organizers:
Ruth Gornett, University of Texas at Arlington rgornet@uta.edu
Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University k.richardson@tcu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Marked length spectrum and diffeomorphism type.
  F. T. Farrell, Binghamton University
  J.-F. Lafont*, Ohio State University
  (1051-57-241)
- 9:00 a.m.
  compact solvmanifolds with symplectic structures must have at most three steps.
  Zhuang-dan Daniel Guan*, The university of california at Riverside
  (1051-58-31)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Geodesics in Heisenberg-like Nilmanifolds.
  Rachelle DeCoste, Wheaton College
  Lisa DeMeyer, Central Michigan University
  Maura Mast*, University of Massachusetts Boston
  (1051-53-191)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Natural Equivariant Dirac Operators.
  Igor Prokhorenkov*, Texas Christian University
  Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University
  (1051-58-77)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Decompositions of equivariant vector bundles.
  Franz W. Kamber*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Kenneth S. Richardson, Texas Christian University
  (1051-58-75)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The three gap theorem and Riemannian geometry.
  Ben Schmidt*, Michigan State University
  (1051-51-33)

Saturday October 17, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Global Analysis on Homogeneous Spaces, III
D105, Baylor Sciences Bldg
Organizers:
Ruth Gornett, University of Texas at Arlington rgornet@uta.edu
Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University k.richardson@tcu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Applications of geometric invariant theory to the geometry of Lie groups with left-invariant metrics.
  Michael Jablonski*, University of Oklahoma
  (1051-53-237)
- 3:30 p.m.
  3-Dimensional Cohomogeneity One Aleksandrov Spaces.
  Catherine E Searle*, IMATE-UNAM Cuernavaca
  Fernando Galaz-Garcia, University of Muenster
  (1051-58-195)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Non-negatively curved cohomogeneity one manifolds.
  Chenxu He*, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
  (1051-53-166)

Sunday October 18, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Global Analysis on Homogeneous Spaces, IV
D105, Baylor Sciences Bldg
Organizers:
Ruth Gornett, University of Texas at Arlington rgornet@uta.edu
Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University k.richardson@tcu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On nonnegatively curved low-dimensional fixed point homogeneous Riemannian manifolds.
  Fernando Galaz-Garcia*, Mathematisches Institut, WWU Münster
  (1051-53-161)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Convergence and stability of locally $\mathbb{R}^{N}$-invariant solutions of Ricci flow.
  Dan F. Knopf*, University of Texas
  (1051-53-104)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Horizontal displacement of curves in bundle $\text{SO}(3)\rightarrow \text{SO}_0(1,3)\rightarrow\mathbb H^3$.
  Taechang Byun*, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019
  (1051-53-58)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Riemannian groupoids, homogeneous spaces, and Ricci flow.
  David A Glickenstein*, University of Arizona
  (1051-53-46)

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