AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 13, 2010 00:34:10

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Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and its Applications, I
Room 213, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame smyth.1@nd.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A simple proof of Perelman's collapsing theorem for $3$-manifolds.
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame
  Jian Ge*, University of Notre Dame
  (1064-53-224)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Index formulas for Loewner vector fields.
  Steven Broad*, Saint Mary's College
  (1064-37-267)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Alexandrov spaces of relatively maximal volumes.
  Nan Li*, University of Notre Dame
  Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University
  (1064-53-43)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The CR Obata-Type Theorem in a Closed Pseudohermitian Manifold.
  Shu-Cheng Chang*, National Taiwan University
  (1064-53-200)

Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and its Applications, II
Room 213, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame smyth.1@nd.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Exotic Capillary Tubes.
  Henry C. Wente*, University of Toledo
  (1064-49-379)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Spherical Rank Rigidity.
  Benjamin Schmidt*, Michigan State University
  (1064-51-24)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A positive mass theorem in Cauchy-Riemann geometry.
  Jih-Hsin Cheng*, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei
  (1064-53-57)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Magnetic Geodesics in two-step Nilmanifolds.
  Maura B. Mast*, University of Massachusetts Boston
  Ruth Gornet, University of Texas at Arlington
  (1064-53-404)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the bottom of spectrum of certain complete Kahler manifolds.
  Xiaodong Wang*, Michigan State University
  (1064-53-121)

Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and its Applications, III
Room 213, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame smyth.1@nd.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Volumes of nodal sets of Laplace eigenfunctions.
  Steve Zelditch*, Northwestern University
  (1064-35-76)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Conformal, complex, and $p$-harmonic geometry.
  Shihshu Walter Wei*, The University of Oklahoma
  (1064-53-254)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Harmonic measures on laminations by locally symmetric spaces.
  Chris Connell*, Indiana University
  Matilde Martinez, Universidad de la Republica
  (1064-53-382)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Some Non-Riemannian Curvatures In Finsler Geometry.
  Zhongmin Shen*, Indiana Univ. Purdue Univ Indianapolis (IUPUI)
  (1064-53-125)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The *-Ricci tensor for hypersurfaces in complex space forms.
  Thomas A. Ivey, Department of Mathematics, College of Charleston, Charleston SC 29424
  Patrick J Ryan*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton ON L8S4K1, Canada
  (1064-53-259)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Form-type equations on Kähler manifolds.
  Damin Wu*, The Ohio State University
  (1064-53-107)

Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and its Applications, IV
Room 213, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame smyth.1@nd.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Fill Radius and the Fundamental Group.
  Jon Wolfson*, Michigan State University
  (1064-53-206)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Compact proper Dupin hypersurfaces.
  Thomas E Cecil*, College of the Holy Cross
  (1064-53-134)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Riesz transforms and $L^p$-estimates of $\bar\partial$ on complete Kahler manifolds.
  Xiangdong Li*, Institute of Applied Mathematics, AMSS, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  (1064-53-289)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Comparison geometry, total curvature, and pursuit-evasion games.
  Stephanie B. Alexander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Richard L. Bishop*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Robert Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania
  (1064-53-348)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Singular time of the mean curvature flow.
  Andrew A Cooper*, Michigan State University
  (1064-51-309)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Comparison theorems for number of conjugate points along sub-Riemannian extremals.
  Igor Zelenko*, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
  (1064-53-30)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Discussion Robert Gulliver