AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:22

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 7, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Maps, Locally Symmetric Spaces, and Related Issues, I
Room 318, Student Center
Organizers:
Kevin David Corlette, University of Chicago
Jonathan Adam Poritz, University of Maryland, College Park
- 9:00 a.m.
  Symmetry groups of finite volume Lorentz manifolds, Part {\rm I}.
  Scot Adams, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  Garrett James Stuck*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (903-53-122)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Symmetry groups of finite volume Lorentz manifolds, Part {\rm II}.
  Scot Adams*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  Garrett James Stuck, University of Maryland, College Park
  (903-53-135)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Anosov actions of semisimple groups.
  Edward R. Goetze*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (903-58-177)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Symmetric spaces, geodesic flows and rigidity of invariant submanifolds.
  Tracy Payne*, Washington University
  (903-58-238)

Saturday October 7, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Maps, Locally Symmetric Spaces, and Related Issues, II
Room 318, Student Center
Organizers:
Kevin David Corlette, University of Chicago,
Jonathan Adam Poritz, University of Maryland, College Park
- 2:30 p.m.
  Coarse geometry and rigidity.
  Benson S. Farb*, University of Chicago
  (903-20-196)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Behavior of singularities of energy-minimizing maps.
  Robert M. Hardt*, Rice University
  Chang you Wang, Rice University
  Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (903-53-176)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Global and local geometry for moduli spaces of metrics and surfaces of constant curvature.
  Daniel Pollack*, University of Chicago
  (903-53-197)

Sunday October 8, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Maps, Locally Symmetric Spaces, and Related Issues, III
Room 318, Student Center
Organizers:
Kevin David Corlette, University of Chicago,
Jonathan Adam Poritz, University of Maryland, College Park
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Shafarevich conjecture.
  Ludmil Vasilev Katzarkov*, University of Pennsylvania
  (903-14-86)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Weakly $1$-complete K\"ahler manifolds with a large automorphism group.
  Terrence J. Napier*, Lehigh University
  Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York, Buffalo
  (903-32-225)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Applications of harmonic functions to negatively curved K\"ahler manifolds.
  Mohan Ramachandran*, State University of New York, Buffalo
  (903-32-206)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On fundamental groups of class {\rm VII} surfaces.
  James A. Carlson*, University of Utah
  Domingo Toledo, University of Utah
  (903-53-242)

Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Maps, Locally Symmetric Spaces, and Related Issues, IV
Room 318, Student Center
Organizers:
Kevin David Corlette, University of Chicago,
Jonathan Adam Poritz, University of Maryland, College Park
- 2:30 p.m.
  Rank two parabolic Higgs bundles over curves.
  Hans Ulysses Boden*, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics,
  (903-14-138)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Motivic local systems on curves.
  Alexandros E. Kouvidakis, University of Crete, Greece
  Tony G. Pantev*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (903-14-87)

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