AMS :: Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, December 14, 2018 03:30:06

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Facets of Symplectic Geometry and Topology, I
204, Behrakis Hall
Organizers:
Tara Holm, Cornell University
Jo Nelson, Columbia University
Jonathan Weitsman, Northeastern University j.weitsman@neu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Moduli spaces of quilted disks mapping to $\mathbb{CP}^1$ and $\mathbb{CP}^2$.
  Nathaniel Bottman*, IAS/Princeton
  (1139-57-167)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On Stein manifolds diffeomorphic to Euclidean space.
  Kyler Bryce Siegel*, Columbia University / MIT
  (1139-51-207)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Product structures for Legendrian submanifolds with generating families.
  Ziva Myer*, Duke University
  (1139-57-186)

Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Facets of Symplectic Geometry and Topology, II
204, Behrakis Hall
Organizers:
Tara Holm, Cornell University
Jo Nelson, Columbia University
Jonathan Weitsman, Northeastern University j.weitsman@neu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Symplectic embeddings in dimension greater than 4.
  Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Richard Hind, Notre Dame University
  Dusa McDuff, Barnard College
  (1139-53-201)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Symplectic cohomological rigidity and toric degenerations.
  Susan Tolman*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1139-53-174)

Sunday April 22, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Facets of Symplectic Geometry and Topology, III
204, Behrakis Hall
Organizers:
Tara Holm, Cornell University
Jo Nelson, Columbia University
Jonathan Weitsman, Northeastern University j.weitsman@neu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On symplectic manifolds with semi-free circle actions and isolated fixed points.
  Eduardo Gonzalez*, UMASS Boston
  B Uribe, Universidad del Norte, Colombia
  (1139-53-343)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Vanishing theorems in the cohomology ring of the moduli space of parabolic vector bundles over a Riemann surface.
  Elisheva Adina Gamse*, University of Toronto
  (1139-51-559)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Volume of reduced product.
  Lisa Jeffrey*, Mathematics Dept., University of Toronto
  (1139-58-460)

Sunday April 22, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Facets of Symplectic Geometry and Topology, VI
204, Behrakis Hall
Organizers:
Tara Holm, Cornell University
Jo Nelson, Columbia University
Jonathan Weitsman, Northeastern University j.weitsman@neu.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Superpositions of coherent states.
  Victor W Guillemin*, MIT
  Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan
  Zuoqin Wang, Johns Hopkins University
  (1139-53-185)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Desingularizing singular symplectic structures.
  Eva Miranda*, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris
  (1139-53-183)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the van Est map for Lie groupoids.
  Eckhard Meinrenken*, University of Toronto
  (1139-53-252)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Abstract integrable systems in a Lie-theoretic setting.
  Peter Crooks*, Leibniz University Hannover
  Steven Rayan, University of Saskatchewan
  (1139-22-97)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Vortex sheets and diffeomorphism groupoids.
  Anton Izosimov*, University of Arizona
  Boris Khesin, University of Toronto
  (1139-58-115)