AMS :: Fall Central Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 5, 2016 03:30:05

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Friday October 28, 2016, 3:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Contact Geometry, I
MOH 346, Opus Hall
Organizers:
Tian-Jun Li, University of Minnesota
Cheuk Yu Mak, University of Minnesota
Ke Zhu, Minnesota State University ke.zhu@mnsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Symplectic capacities from positive $S^1$-equivariant symplectic homology.
  Jean Gutt*, University of Georgia
  Michael Hutchings, UC Berkeley
  (1123-53-328)
- 3:30 p.m.
  New symplectic 4-manifolds with $b_2^+ = 1$.
  Anar Akhmedov*, University of Minnesota
  Weiyi Zhang, University of Warwick
  (1123-57-205)
- 4:00 p.m.
  symplectomorphism gorup of rational 4-manifold.
  Jun Li*, University of Minnesota
  Tian-Jun Li, University of Minnesota
  Weiwei Wu, University of Georgia
  (1123-53-390)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Existence and Stability of Symplectic Configurations.
  Josef G Dorfmeister*, NDSU
  (1123-57-215)

Saturday October 29, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Contact Geometry, II
MOH 346, Opus Hall
Organizers:
Tian-Jun Li, University of Minnesota
Cheuk Yu Mak, University of Minnesota
Ke Zhu, Minnesota State University ke.zhu@mnsu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Monotone Lagrangians on cotangent bundles.
  Mohammed Abouzaid, Columbia University
  Luis Diogo*, Columbia University
  (1123-53-175)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Positive factorizations of symmetric mapping classes.
  Keiko Kawamuro*, University of Iowa
  Tetsuya Ito, Osaka University
  (1123-57-213)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Monotone Viterbo functoriality and subcritical handle attachments.
  Weiwei Wu*, University of Georgia
  Cheuk-Yu Mak, Institute of Advanced Studies
  (1123-53-222)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Solvability of Dirac type equations and automatic transversality of holomorphic curves.
  Qingchun Ji, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  Ke Zhu*, Minnesota State University Mankato
  (1123-53-273)

Saturday October 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Contact Geometry, III
MOH 346, Opus Hall
Organizers:
Tian-Jun Li, University of Minnesota
Cheuk Yu Mak, University of Minnesota
Ke Zhu, Minnesota State University ke.zhu@mnsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Convexity properties of Hamiltonian transversely symplectic manifolds.
  Yi Lin*, Georgia Southern University
  (1123-53-302)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Curvature Pinching and Gromov Volume of conic 2-spheres.
  Hao Fang*, IA
  (1123-51-373)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Symplectic Laplacians, cohomology and boundary conditions.
  Lihan Wang*, UC Riverside
  (1123-51-269)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Hard Lefschetz Property of Symplectic Structures on Compact Kähler Manifolds.
  H. Andersen*, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
  (1123-53-382)

Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Contact Geometry, IV
MOH 346, Opus Hall
Organizers:
Tian-Jun Li, University of Minnesota
Cheuk Yu Mak, University of Minnesota
Ke Zhu, Minnesota State University ke.zhu@mnsu.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Representations of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra.
  Helen M Wong*, Carleton College
  Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
  (1123-57-346)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hyperbolic 3 manifolds not admitting fillable contact structures.
  Amey Kaloti*, University of Iowa.
  Bulent Tosun, University of Alabama.
  (1123-57-295)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Weinstein Conjecture for Iterated Planar Open Books.
  Bahar Acu*, University of Southern California, University of California Los Angeles
  (1123-53-242)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The new symplectic 4-manifolds with positive signature.
  Sumeyra Sakalli*, University of Minnesota
  (1123-57-190)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Constructions of new Lefschetz fibrations using cyclic group actions.
  Nur Saglam*, University of Minnesota
  (1123-57-264)