
AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session
Current as of Saturday, April 16, 2011 00:22:58
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2011 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
April 9-10, 2011 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1070
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Special Session on Geometry of Nilpotent Lie Groups
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Saturday April 9, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Nilpotent Lie Groups, I
Rm 316, Stein Hall
Organizers:
Rachelle DeCoste, Wheaton College decoste_rachelle@wheatoncollege.edu
Lisa DeMeyer, Central Michigan University
Maura Mast, University of Massachusetts-Boston
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8:00 a.m.
Totally geodesic subalgebras in 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras.
Rachelle C DeCoste*, Wheaton College
Lisa DeMeyer, Central Michigan University
(1070-53-154) -
8:30 a.m.
Characterizations of Heisenberg-like Lie algebras.
Rachelle C DeCoste, Wheaton College, MA
Lisa DeMeyer*, Central Michigan University
Maura B Mast, University of Massachusetts Boston
(1070-53-117) -
9:00 a.m.
Automorphisms of 2-step nilpotent Lie groups associated with graphs.
Meera G Mainkar*, Dartmouth College
(1070-53-152) -
9:30 a.m.
$\text{SO}(n) \backslash \text{SO}_0 (n,1)$ has positive curvatures.
Taechang Byun*, University of Oklahoma
Kyeonghee Jo, Mokpo National Maritime University, Korea
Kyung-Bai Lee, University of Oklahoma
(1070-53-29) -
10:00 a.m.
Geometric Invariants for Nilmanifolds.
Tracy L Payne*, Idaho State University
(1070-53-216)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 9, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Nilpotent Lie Groups, II
Rm 316, Stein Hall
Organizers:
Rachelle DeCoste, Wheaton College decoste_rachelle@wheatoncollege.edu
Lisa DeMeyer, Central Michigan University
Maura Mast, University of Massachusetts-Boston
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3:00 p.m.
Dirac Operators and Eta Invariants on nilmanifolds.
Ruth Gornet*, University of Texas at Arlington
Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University
(1070-58-258) -
3:30 p.m.
Quantum equivalent magnetic fields on flat tori that are not classically equivalent.
Carolyn S. Gordon*, Dartmouth College
Dorothee Schueth, Humboldt University
(1070-58-287) -
4:00 p.m.
Spectral isolation of naturally reductive metrics on simple Lie groups.
Craig J. Sutton*, Dartmouth College
Carolyn Gordon, Dartmouth College
(1070-53-326) -
4:30 p.m.
Infranil-orbifolds and isospectral sectors.
Emily B. Proctor*, Middlebury College
(1070-58-188) -
5:00 p.m.
Minimal surfaces and models of the visual cortex.
Scott D. Pauls*, Dartmouth College
(1070-53-136)
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3:00 p.m.
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