
AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session
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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 Geometric and Topological Problems in Curvature
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Saturday April 9, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Topological Problems in Curvature, I
Rm 225, Haberlin Hall
Organizers:
Megan Kerr, Wellesley College
Stanley Chang, Wellesley College schang@wellesley.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Non-trivial Ricci solitons on 3-D Sasakian manifolds and their obstruction to compactness.
Ramesh Sharma*, University Of New Haven
Amalendu Ghosh, Krishnagar Government College, India
(1070-53-49) -
9:30 a.m.
The projective or split-quaternionic models: Applications to Lorentzian hypersurfaces with certain curvature conditions.
Martha P. Dussan Angulo*, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Departamento de Matematica IME. Sao Paulo, S.P.
Martin Magid, Wellesley college
(1070-51-210) -
10:00 a.m.
Isometric circle actions on simply-connected 4-manifolds with nonnegative curvature.
Fernando Galaz-Garcia*, Mathematisches Institut, WWU Muenster
Martin Kerin, Mathematisches Institut, WWU Muenster
(1070-53-250) -
10:30 a.m.
Nonnegatively curved 5-manifolds of almost maximal symmetry rank.
Catherine E Searle*, IMATE-UNAM Cuernavaca
Fernando Calaz-Garcia, U. Muenster
(1070-53-285)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 9, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Topological Problems in Curvature, II
Rm 225, Haberlin Hall
Organizers:
Megan Kerr, Wellesley College
Stanley Chang, Wellesley College schang@wellesley.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Topology of non-negatively curved manifolds.
Christine Escher*, Oregon State University
Wolfgang Ziller*, University of Pennsylvania
(1070-55-166) -
3:30 p.m.
Understanding the space of positive scalar curvature metrics.
Mark G Walsh*, Oregon State University
(1070-53-279) -
4:00 p.m.
Positive Scalar Curvature in Noncompact Manifolds.
Stanley S Chang*, Wellesley College
(1070-53-165) -
4:30 p.m.
Scalar Curvature and holomorphy potentials.
Gideon Maschler*, Clark University
(1070-53-236)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday April 10, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Topological Problems in Curvature, III
Rm 225, Haberlin Hall
Organizers:
Megan Kerr, Wellesley College
Stanley Chang, Wellesley College schang@wellesley.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Hearing the moments of inertia of a rigid body.
Craig J. Sutton*, Dartmouth College
(1070-53-322) -
9:30 a.m.
The Geometry of Planar Pixelations.
Brandon M Rowekamp*, University of Notre Dame
(1070-51-18) -
10:00 a.m.
Orbifold homeomorphism finiteness based on geometric constraints.
Emily B. Proctor*, Middlebury College
(1070-58-95)
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9:00 a.m.
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