AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 17, 2010 00:33:02

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc.
Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Global Geometric Analysis, I
MS 5127, Math Science Building
Organizers:
William Wylie, University of Pennsylvania wylie@math.upenn.edu
Joseph E. Borzellino, California State University San Luis Obispo jborzell@calpoly.edu
Peter Petersen, University of California Los Angeles petersen@math.ucla.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Discrete conformal variations of piecewise flat manifolds.
  David Glickenstein*, University of Arizona
  (1063-53-115)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Regge's Einstein-Hilbert functional on the double tetrahedron.
  Daniel Champion, University of Arizona
  David Glickenstein, University of Arizona
  Andrea Young*, University of Arizona
  (1063-52-166)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A dictionary for translating between orbifolds and Lie groupoids.
  Joseph E Borzellino, California State Polytechnic University
  Victor W Brunsden*, Penn State Altoona
  (1063-58-161)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Liouville-type Theorem for Smooth Metric Measure Spaces.
  Kevin C Brighton*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1063-53-73)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Intrinsic Flat Distance between Riemannian Manifolds with Boundary.
  Christina Sormani*, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College
  (1063-58-34)

Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Global Geometric Analysis, II
MS 5127, Math Science Building
Organizers:
William Wylie, University of Pennsylvania wylie@math.upenn.edu
Joseph E. Borzellino, California State University San Luis Obispo jborzell@calpoly.edu
Peter Petersen, University of California Los Angeles petersen@math.ucla.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Second variation and stability for Ricci solitons.
  Huai-Dong Cao*, Lehigh University
  Meng Zhu, Lehigh University
  (1063-53-177)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Gradient Ricci Solitons.
  Ovidiu Munteanu*, Columbia University, New York
  (1063-53-18)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Correspondences of Hypersurfaces in Hyperbolic Poincaré Manifolds and Conformally Invariant PDEs.
  Vincent Bonini*, California Polytechnic State University
  José Espinar, Departmento de Geometría y Topología, Universidad de Granada, Spain
  Jie Qing, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (1063-53-154)
- 4:30 p.m.
  "Recent results on nonlocal almost minimal boundaries.
  M Cristina Caputo*, University of Arkansas
  Nestor Guillen, University of Texas at Austin
  (1063-35-74)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The extension results for the mean curvature flow.
  Natasa Sesum*, Rutgers University
  Nam Q Le, Columbia University
  (1063-35-38)

Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Global Geometric Analysis, III
MS 5127, Math Science Building
Organizers:
William Wylie, University of Pennsylvania wylie@math.upenn.edu
Joseph E. Borzellino, California State University San Luis Obispo jborzell@calpoly.edu
Peter Petersen, University of California Los Angeles petersen@math.ucla.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Ricci Flow on Complete Surfaces.
  James Isenberg*, University of Oregon
  Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
  Natasa Sesum, Rutgers University
  (1063-53-111)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Formal matched asymptotics for degenerate Ricci flow neckpinches.
  Dan Knopf*, University of Texas
  (1063-53-68)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Ricci soliton metrics on solvable Lie groups.
  Michael Jablonski*, University of Oklahoma
  (1063-53-151)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The second order renormalization group flow for locally homogeneous geometries on closed 3-manifolds.
  Christine M Guenther*, Pacific University
  (1063-58-173)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On The Rigidity of Riemannian Submersions of Nonnegatively Curved Manifolds.
  Curtis Pro*, University of California, Riverside
  Frederick Wilhelm, University of California, Riverside
  (1063-53-95)

Sunday October 10, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Global Geometric Analysis, IV
MS 5127, Math Science Building
Organizers:
William Wylie, University of Pennsylvania wylie@math.upenn.edu
Joseph E. Borzellino, California State University San Luis Obispo jborzell@calpoly.edu
Peter Petersen, University of California Los Angeles petersen@math.ucla.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Semi-continuity of Isometry and Automorphism Groups(joint work with K.T. Kim and S.G. Krantz).
  Robert E. Greene*, University of Claifornia ,Los Angeles
  (1063-53-160)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Toward a notion of index of critical points of distance functions.
  Fred Wilhelm*, University of California, Riverside
  Barbara Herzog, University of California, Riverside
  (1063-53-119)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Covering Spectrum.
  Christina Sormani, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College
  Guofang Wei*, UC Santa Barbara
  (1063-53-204)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Eigenvalue pinching and differential forms.
  Chadwick S Sprouse*, CSU Northridge
  (1063-53-230)