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, 2:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Formations of Singularities in Geometric Flows, I
A235, Baylor Sciences Bldg
Organizers:
Maria-Cristina Caputo, University of Texas at Austin caputo@math.utexas.edu
Natasa Sesum, University of Pennsylvania
- 2:00 p.m.
  Remarks on Ricci solitons.
  Huai-Dong Cao*, Lehigh University
  (1051-53-168)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Mean Curvature Flow with Surgeries.
  John Head*, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
  (1051-51-266)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Regularity for flows through semipermeable membranes.
  Nestor Guillen*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1051-35-156)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Some preliminary results on the second order renormalization group flow.
  Christine M Guenther*, Pacific University
  (1051-58-173)

Saturday October 17, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Formations of Singularities in Geometric Flows, II
A235, Baylor Sciences Bldg
Organizers:
Maria-Cristina Caputo, University of Texas at Austin caputo@math.utexas.edu
Natasa Sesum, University of Pennsylvania
- 8:30 a.m.
  Minimally invasive surgery for Ricci flow singularities.
  Sigurd B. Angenent, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  M. Cristina Caputo, University of Texas
  Dan F. Knopf*, University of Texas
  (1051-53-103)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:30 a.m.
  Construction of self-similar surfaces under mean curvature flow.
  Xuan Hien Nguyen*, Kansas State University
  (1051-35-110)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On the classification of gradient Ricci solitons and Quasi-Einstein manifolds.
  William Wylie*, University of Pennsylvania
  P Petersen, UCLA
  (1051-53-212)

Saturday October 17, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Formations of Singularities in Geometric Flows, III
A235, Baylor Sciences Bldg
Organizers:
Maria-Cristina Caputo, University of Texas at Austin caputo@math.utexas.edu
Natasa Sesum, University of Pennsylvania
- 3:00 p.m.
  the Singularities of Kähler-Ricci Flows.
  Zhou Zhang*, University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor
  (1051-53-152)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Backwards-uniqueness of the Ricci flow.
  Brett L Kotschwar*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1051-53-203)
- 4:00 p.m.
  KE metrics, stability and Ricci flow.
  Zuang-dan Daniel Guan*, Department of Math. University of California at Riverside
  (1051-53-121)

Sunday October 18, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Special Session on Formations of Singularities in Geometric Flows, IV
A235, Baylor Sciences Bldg
Organizers:
Maria-Cristina Caputo, University of Texas at Austin caputo@math.utexas.edu
Natasa Sesum, University of Pennsylvania
- 9:00 a.m.
  Conformal Deformations of Singular Metrics To Constant Scalar Curvature: The Negative Curvature Case.
  Thalia D. Jeffres*, Wichita State University
  Julie M. Rowlett, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics
  (1051-53-123)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 11:00 a.m.
  Ricci Yang-Mills solitons on nilpotent Lie groups.
  Andrea N Young*, University of Arizona
  Michael Jablonksi, University of Oklahoma
  (1051-53-231)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Regularity of optimal transport maps and applications to the geometry of the cut locus.
  Alessio Figalli*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1051-35-44)

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