AMS :: 2011 Spring Western Section Meeting, Program by AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, May 7, 2011 00:22:48

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Saturday April 30, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Partial Differential Equations, I
Room C218, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Matthew Gursky, Notre Dame University mgursky@nd.edu
Emmanuel Hebey, Université de Cergy-Pontoise Emmanuel.Hebey@u-cergy.fr
- 9:00 a.m.
  Non-local notions of curvature.
  Nestor Guillen*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1071-35-55)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Variational Characterization of the Catenoid.
  Jacob Bernstein*, Stanford University
  Christine Breiner, MIT
  (1071-53-91)
- 10:40 a.m.
  Discussion

Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Partial Differential Equations, II
Room C218, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Matthew Gursky, Notre Dame University mgursky@nd.edu
Emmanuel Hebey, Université de Cergy-Pontoise Emmanuel.Hebey@u-cergy.fr
- 3:00 p.m.
  On Proper Horospherically Convex Hypersurfaces in ${\Bbb{H}}^{n+1}$ and Complete Conformal Metrics on Domains of ${\Bbb{S}}^n$.
  Vincent Bonini*, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  José Espinar, Departmento de Geometría y Topología, Universidad de Granada
  Jie Qing, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (1071-53-258)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Discussion
- 4:00 p.m.
  Rigidity and stability of Einstein metrics for quadratic curvature functionals.
  Jeff A. Viaclovsky*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (1071-53-140)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:00 p.m.
  Improved Moser-Trudinger inequalities and singular Liouville equations.
  Andrea Malchiodi*, SISSA, Trieste, ITALY
  (1071-35-63)
- 5:40 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday May 1, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Partial Differential Equations, III
Room C218, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Matthew Gursky, Notre Dame University mgursky@nd.edu
Emmanuel Hebey, Université de Cergy-Pontoise Emmanuel.Hebey@u-cergy.fr
- 9:00 a.m.
  About the Geometry and Regularity of Largest Subsolutions for a Free Boundary Problem in $R^2$: Elliptic Case.
  Betul Orcan*, PostDoc-MSRI
  (1071-35-104)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:00 a.m.
  Normalized Ricci flow on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds.
  Jie Qing, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Yuguang Shi, Peking University
  Jie Wu*, Peking University
  (1071-53-222)
- 10:40 a.m.
  Discussion

Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Partial Differential Equations, IV
Room C218, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Matthew Gursky, Notre Dame University mgursky@nd.edu
Emmanuel Hebey, Université de Cergy-Pontoise Emmanuel.Hebey@u-cergy.fr
- 3:00 p.m.
  Fractional conformal Laplacians and fractional Yamabe problems.
  Maria del Mar Gonzalez, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya
  Jie Qing*, UC Santa Cruz
  (1071-53-141)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Discussion
- 4:00 p.m.
  Free boundary problem for embedded minimal surfaces.
  Martin Man-chun Li*, Stanford University
  (1071-53-177)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:00 p.m.
  The complex Monge-Ampere equation on compact Kahler manifolds.
  Xiuxiong Chen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Weiyong He*, University of Oregon
  (1071-53-107)
- 5:40 p.m.
  Discussion