AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:57

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Associate secretaries:
W Wistar Comfort, AMS wcomfort@wesleyan.edu

Saturday April 11, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Analysis, I
Room 353, Seeley G. Mudd Building
- 9:00 a.m.
  An interpretation of Kronecker indicies as diffeomorphism invariants of an exterior differential system.
  Robert B. Gardner*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Fields Institute for Mathematical Research, Canada
  (874-53-99)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Surfaces minimizing area plus length of singular curves.
  Frank Morgan*, Williams College
  (874-53-78)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Area-minimizing surfaces with large singular sets.
  Gary R. Lawlor*, Brigham Young University
  (874-49-127)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Inextendible conformal realizations of Lorentz surfaces in Minkowski 3-space.
  Tilla Weinstein*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (874-53-79)

Saturday April 11, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Analysis, II
Room 353, Seeley G. Mudd Building
- 2:45 p.m.
  Connections with prescribed curvature-C^infinity results.
  Dennis DeTurck*, University of Pennsylvania
  Nets Katz, University of Pennsylvania
  (874-49-18)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Chern classes of Schubert varieties in Grassmannians.
  Joseph H.G Fu*, University of Georgia
  (874-53-84)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Minimizing the squared-mean-curvature integral with the surface evolver.
  Rob Kusner*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (874-49-30)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Convergence of the Allen-Cahn equation to Brakke's motion by mean curvature.
  Tom Ilmanen*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (874-35-111)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Boundary value problem on surfaces of constant Gauss curvature.
  Bo Guan*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Joel Spruch, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (874-58-97)

Sunday April 12, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Analysis, III
Room 353, Seeley G. Mudd Building
- 8:30 a.m.
  Non-minimal critical points of the Higgs functional with arbitrary coupling constant.
  L. M. Sibner*, Polytechnic Institute of New York
  Janet Talvacchia, Swarthmore College
  (874-35-08)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Causal boundary of a product spacetime.
  Steven G. Harris*, Saint Louis University
  (874-53-135)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Gap theorems for indefinite manifolds.
  Lars Andersson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  Ralph Howard*, University of South Carolina, Columbia
  (874-83-139)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the regularity of spherically symmetric wave maps.
  Demetrios Christodoulou, New York University-Courant Institute
  A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (874-58-105)
- 10:30 a.m.
  3-dimensional contact manifolds with the characteristic vector field section sign as an eigenvector of the Lapacian operator.
  Haiwen Chen*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  (874-53-75)

Sunday April 12, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Analysis, IV
Room 353, Seeley G. Mudd Building
- 2:45 p.m.
  Hypersurfaces of hyperbolic space that have nonnegative Ricci curvature.
  Robert J. Currier*, Smith College
  (874-53-65)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Generalizing the collar lemma.
  Ara Basmajian*, University of Oklahoma
  (874-53-04)
- 3:45 p.m.
  On the Einstein equation.
  Chuan-Chih Hsiung*, Lehigh University
  (874-53-60)
- 4:15 p.m.
  On the possibilities for a convex domain to contain another in R^3.
  Jiazu Zhou*, Temple University
  (874-53-125)

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