AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:23

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu

Saturday November 11, 1995, 8:50 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Invariants and Conformal Geometry, I
Room 351, Denny Research Building
Organizers:
Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California
Paul C. Yang, University of Southern California
- 8:50 a.m.
  A signature theorem on manifolds with corners.
  Andrew W. Hassell*, Stanford University
  (905-58-30)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture.
  Peter B. Gilkey*, University of Oregon
  (905-58-11)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Spectra of surfaces.
  Peter Sarnak*, Princeton University
  (905-58-59)

Saturday November 11, 1995, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Invariants and Conformal Geometry, II
Room 351, Denny Research Building
Organizers:
Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California
Paul C. Yang, University of Southern California
- 3:00 p.m.
  Analytic and Reidemeister torsion for representations in finite type Hilbert modules.
  Leonid Friedlander*, University of Arizona
  Dan Burghelea, Ohio State University, Columbus
  Thomas Kappeler, Ohio State University, Columbus
  P. McDonald, Ohio State University
  (905-58-58)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Conformal geometry and spectral invariants.
  Thomas Patrick Branson*, University of Iowa
  (905-58-51)
- 4:20 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:00 p.m.
  The higher $\Gamma$-index theorem for manifolds with boundaries.
  Fang-Bing Wu*, Kansas State University
  (905-58-23)
- 5:40 p.m.
  On the prescribing mean curvature problem.
  Alice Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
  Xingwang Xu*, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  Paul C. Yang, University of Southern California
  (905-58-52)

Sunday November 12, 1995, 8:50 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Invariants and Conformal Geometry, III
Room 351, Denny Research Building
Organizers:
Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California
Paul C. Yang, University of Southern California
- 8:50 a.m.
  The Paneitz operator and a Pohozaev-type identity.
  Matthew J. Gursky*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (905-35-60)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Prescribing scalar curvature on $S^4$: Existence and compactness.
  YanYan Li*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (905-35-17)
- 10:10 a.m.
  The spectrum of an asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein manifold.
  John M. Lee*, University of Washington
  (905-35-50)

Sunday November 12, 1995, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Invariants and Conformal Geometry, IV
Room 351, Denny Research Building
Organizers:
Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California
Paul C. Yang, University of Southern California
- 3:00 p.m.
  Nondegenerate solutions and the geometry of moduli spaces of metrics and surfaces of constant curvature.
  Daniel Pollack*, University of Chicago
  (905-53-33)
- 3:40 p.m.
  A paradigm for gluing in conformal geometry.
  Rafe R. Mazzeo*, Stanford University
  (905-58-57)
- 4:20 p.m.
  A priori estimates for prescribing scalar curvature problem.
  Wenxiong Chen, Southwest Missouri State University
  Congming Li*, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (905-35-44)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The zeta functional determinants on manifolds with boundary.
  Alice Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
  Jie Qing*, Columbia University
  (905-53-35)

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