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:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

Saturday April 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, I
Room 104, Salisbury Laboratories
Organizers:
Peter Albers, Purdue University/ETH Zurich palbers@math.purdue.edu
Basak Gurel, Vanderbilt University basak.gurel@vanderbilt.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Topological properties of symplectomorphism groups.
  Olguta Buse*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
  (1050-51-19)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The Full Orbifold $K$-theory of Abelian Symplectic Quotients.
  R Goldin, George Mason University
  M Harada, McMaster University
  T Holm*, Cornell University
  T Kimura, Boston University
  (1050-53-13)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Homoclinic orbits and pseudoholomorphic curves.
  Samuel T Lisi*, Stanford University
  (1050-58-26)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Degenerate Maxima for Hamiltonian Loops.
  Mike Chance*, Stony Brook University
  (1050-53-36)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Symplectic embeddings of domains in Euclidean space.
  Richard K Hind*, University of Notre Dame
  (1050-51-25)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Hofer's geometry and Maslov class rigidity.
  Ely Kerman*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1050-53-16)

Saturday April 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, II
Room 104, Salisbury Laboratories
Organizers:
Peter Albers, Purdue University/ETH Zurich palbers@math.purdue.edu
Basak Gurel, Vanderbilt University basak.gurel@vanderbilt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Complexifications of Morse functions and exact Lagrangian submanifolds in cotangent bundles.
  Joseph A Johns*, NYU
  (1050-53-31)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Connexity of some symplectomorphism groups.
  Martin Pinsonnault*, The University of Western Ontario
  (1050-53-46)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Coisotropic Submanifolds, Leaf-wise Fixed Points, and Presymplectic Embeddings.
  Fabian J. Ziltener*, University of Toronto
  (1050-53-30)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A Symplectic Brunn-Minkowski Inequality.
  Yaron Ostrover*, MIT
  (1050-51-43)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Lagrangian sphere-bundles.
  Tim Perutz*, Columbia University
  (1050-57-21)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Open string topology and classical knots.
  Dennis Sullivan, Stony Brook University
  Michael Sullivan*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  (1050-57-15)
- 6:00 p.m.
  GKM Fiber Bundles.
  Catalin Zara*, University of Massaschusetts Boston
  (1050-55-24)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, III
Room 104, Salisbury Laboratories
Organizers:
Peter Albers, Purdue University/ETH Zurich palbers@math.purdue.edu
Basak Gurel, Vanderbilt University basak.gurel@vanderbilt.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Target-local Gromov-compactness for J-curves.
  Joel W Fish*, Stanford University
  (1050-53-109)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A nonextension result on the spectral metric.
  Zhigang Han*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  (1050-53-10)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Floer homology of symplectic orbifolds.
  Weimin Chen*, University of Massachusetts -Amherst
  (1050-57-27)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Period Floer homology and Seieberg-Witten cohomology.
  Yi-Jen Lee*, Purdue
  C Taubes, Harvard University
  (1050-57-94)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Asymptotics and intersection theory of punctured pseudoholomorphic curves.
  Richard Siefring*, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University
  (1050-53-135)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Symplectic Floer homology of area-preserving surface diffeomorphisms and sharp fixed point bounds.
  Andrew Cotton-Clay*, UC Berkeley/MIT
  (1050-53-23)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, IV
Room 104, Salisbury Laboratories
Organizers:
Peter Albers, Purdue University/ETH Zurich palbers@math.purdue.edu
Basak Gurel, Vanderbilt University basak.gurel@vanderbilt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Transverse knots and their branched covers.
  Olga Plamenevskaya*, Stony Brook University
  (1050-57-131)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Area-dependence in gauged Gromov-Witten theory.
  Eduardo Gonzalez*, University of Massachusetts Boston
  Chris Woodward, Rutgers University
  (1050-58-12)
- 4:00 p.m.
  "Fake" symplectic manifolds via Lefschetz fibrations.
  Maksim Maydanskiy*, MIT
  (1050-53-11)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quilted disks in Lagrangian Floer theory.
  Sikimeti Ma'u*, MIT
  Katrin Wehrheim, MIT
  Chris Woodward, Rutgers University
  (1050-53-28)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Lagrangian correspondences and holomorphic quilts.
  Katrin Wehrheim*, MIT
  (1050-53-17)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Spectral measures on toric manifolds.
  Rosa Sena-Dias*, IST/MIT
  (1050-53-164)

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