AMS :: 2011 Fall Western Section Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 30, 2011 00:27:59

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Saturday October 22, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Evolution Equations and Related Topics, I
Room 215, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Andrejs Treibergs, University of Utah Salt Lake City treiberg@math.utah.edu
Lei Ni, University of California San Diego lni@mathl.ucsd.edu
Brett Kotschwar, Arizona State University kotschwar@math.mit.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Sasaki Ricci flow and compact Sasaki manifolds with positive transverse bisectional curvature.
  Weiyong He*, University of Oregon
  (1075-53-60)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Prescribed Ricci curvature on a solid torus.
  Artem Pulemotov*, The University of Chicago
  (1075-53-08)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Curvature pinching and singularities of the Ricci flow.
  Xiaodong Cao*, Cornell University
  (1075-53-141)

Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Evolution Equations and Related Topics, II
Room 215, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Andrejs Treibergs, University of Utah Salt Lake City treiberg@math.utah.edu
Lei Ni, University of California San Diego lni@mathl.ucsd.edu
Brett Kotschwar, Arizona State University kotschwar@math.mit.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Moduli spaces of nilsolitons.
  Tracy L. Payne*, Idaho State University
  (1075-53-105)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A metric hodge theory for Alexandrov spaces with curvature bounded above.
  Nathan Smale*, University of Utah
  (1075-58-139)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Comparison theorems, geometric flows, and conservation laws in $p$-harmonic geometry.
  Shihshu Walter Wei*, The University of Oklahoma, Department of Mathematics, Norman, OK 73019, U.S.A.
  (1075-53-26)

Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Evolution Equations and Related Topics, III
Room 215, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Andrejs Treibergs, University of Utah Salt Lake City treiberg@math.utah.edu
Lei Ni, University of California San Diego lni@mathl.ucsd.edu
Brett Kotschwar, Arizona State University kotschwar@math.mit.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  A fully non-linear flow equation on the sphere and Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities.
  Pengfei Guan, McGill University
  Junfang Li*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (1075-35-163)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Gradient Ricci solitons.
  Ovidiu Munteanu*, Columbia University
  (1075-53-25)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Flows to find (approximate) Riemann mappings.
  David Alan Glickenstein*, University of Arizona
  (1075-51-62)

Sunday October 23, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Evolution Equations and Related Topics, IV
Room 215, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Andrejs Treibergs, University of Utah Salt Lake City treiberg@math.utah.edu
Lei Ni, University of California San Diego lni@mathl.ucsd.edu
Brett Kotschwar, Arizona State University kotschwar@math.mit.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Anisotropic Surface Energy.
  Bennett Palmer*, Idaho State University
  (1075-53-80)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On potential function of gradient steady Ricci solitons.
  Peng Wu*, University of California, Santa Barbara.
  (1075-53-24)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Dirichlet problem for the curve shortening flow in convex domains.
  Paul T. Allen*, Lewis & Clark College
  K Tsukahara, Lewis & Clark College
  A Layne, University of Oregon
  (1075-53-14)