AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Friday, March 31, 2006 00:42:21

2006 Spring Central Sectional Meeting
Notre Dame, IN, April 8-9, 2006
Meeting #1016

• Saturday April 8, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, I
  Room 208, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame Jianguo.Cao.7@nd.edu
  Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame Xiaobo.Liu.43@nd.edu
  Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame Brian.B.Smyth.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rigidity Theorems in Finsler Geometry.
    Zhongmin Shen*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
    (1016-53-108)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Insecurity and the growth of the number of geodesics between two points in a Riemannian manifold.
    Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
    Eugene Gutkin, IMPA
    (1016-53-238)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Harmonic 2-forms on cohomogeneity one 4-manifolds.
    Eduard Chiru, OSU-Lima
    Ji-Ping Sha*, Indiana University
    (1016-53-193)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Long-time behaviour of type-III Ricci flow solutions.
    John W Lott*, University of Michigan
    (1016-58-107)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Concentration properties for eigenfunctions of the Laplacian.
    Harold Gerard Donnelly*, Purdue University
    (1016-58-28)
• Saturday April 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, II
  Room 208, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame Jianguo.Cao.7@nd.edu
  Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame Xiaobo.Liu.43@nd.edu
  Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame Brian.B.Smyth.1@nd.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Gromov-Witten Invariants via Deformations of Kahler Surfaces.
    Thomas H Parker*, Michigan State University
    Junho Lee, Michigan State University
    (1016-58-294)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Classification of the singularities of Witten equation.
    Huijun Fan*, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
    Tyler Jarvis, Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602
    Yongbin Ruan, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
    (1016-53-99)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Stringy K-theory.
    Takashi Kimura*, Boston University
    (1016-53-192)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, III
  Room 208, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame Jianguo.Cao.7@nd.edu
  Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame Xiaobo.Liu.43@nd.edu
  Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame Brian.B.Smyth.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Characteristic Classes of Bad Orbifold Vector Bundles.
    Christopher W Seaton*, Rhodes College
    (1016-53-157)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Floer homology for Almost Hamiltonian Isotopies.
    Christopher L. Saunders*, Westminster College
    (1016-53-17)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Q-curvature functions for Ricci flat manifolds.
    Yuxin Ge, Storrs, CT
    Xingwang Xu*, Storrs, CT
    (1016-58-217)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Associative submanifolds of a G2 Manifold.
    Selman Akbulut*, Michigan State University
    Sema Salur, Northwestern University
    (1016-53-264)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Calibrated Geometries.
    Sema Salur*, Northwestern University
    (1016-53-244)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Characterizing Diffeomorphisms by the Topology of the Pullback of Hyperplane Foliations.
    Eduardo Cabral Balreira*, University of Notre Dame
    (1016-58-100)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, IV
  Room 208, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame Jianguo.Cao.7@nd.edu
  Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame Xiaobo.Liu.43@nd.edu
  Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame Brian.B.Smyth.1@nd.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rigidity of the Identity.
    Frederico Xavier*, University of Notre Dame
    (1016-32-274)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some Geometric Aspects of Nonlinear PDE's.
    Hongyou Wu*, Northern Illinois University
    (1016-53-96)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Special Hypersurfaces in $CP^2$ and $CH^2$.
    Thomas A. Ivey*, College of Charleston
    Patrick J. Ryan, McMaster University
    (1016-53-13)

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