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1998 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Louisville, KY, March 20-21, 1998
Meeting #931

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Special Session on Spectral Geometry

  • Friday March 20, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Spectral Geometry, I

    Room 3, Burhans Hall
    Organizers:
    Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech University gornet@math.ttu.edu
    Peter Anton Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu

    • 9:00 a.m.
      The dispersionless Toda equation and Toeplitz operators.
      Alejandro Uribe*, University of Michigan
      (931-58-216)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Vibrating Strings and Cylinders with Variable Mass Density.
      Richard Snyder Laugesen*, University of Illinois, Urbana--Champaign
      (931-35-91)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      The spectrum of the Hodge Laplacian for three manifolds with pinched negative curvature.
      Jeffrey K McGowan*, Central Connecticut State University
      Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech/University of Kentucky
      (931-58-174)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Heat kernel and Green function estimates on noncompact symmetric spaces.
      Lizhen Ji*, University of Michigan
      (931-58-111)
  • Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
    Special Session on Spectral Geometry, II

    Room 3, Burhans Hall
    Organizers:
    Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech University gornet@math.ttu.edu
    Peter Anton Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu

    • 2:45 p.m.
      Locally nonisometric yet super isospectral spaces;The full exploration.
      Zoltan I Szabo*, Lehman College of The City University of New York
      (931-58-309)
    • 3:15 p.m.
      Continuous families of isospectral Riemannian metrics which are not locally isometric.
      Carolyn S. Gordon, Dartmouth College
      Edward N. Wilson*, Washington University
      (931-53-313)
    • 3:45 p.m.
      The Length Spectrum of Riemannian Two-Step Nilmanifolds.
      Maura B Mast*, University of Northern Iowa
      (931-58-236)
    • 4:15 p.m.
      Riemannian foliations and eigenvalue comparison.
      Jeffrey M. Lee*, Texas Tech University
      Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University
      (931-53-224)
    • 4:45 p.m.
      Isoperimetric Problem for the curl operator.
      Jason Cantarella, University of Pennsylvania
      Dennis DeTurck, University of Pennsylvania
      Herman Gluck, University of Pennsylvania
      Mikhail Teytel*, University of Pennsylvania
      (931-46-95)
    • 5:15 p.m.
      Scattering theory and hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
      David Borthwick*, Emory University
      (931-58-190)
  • Saturday March 21, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Spectral Geometry, III

    Room 3, Burhans Hall
    Organizers:
    Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech University gornet@math.ttu.edu
    Peter Anton Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Spectral asymptotics for compactly supported perturbations of the Laplacian on Euclidian space.
      Tanya J. Christiansen*, University of Missouri
      (931-35-142)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Spectral Clustering of the Dirac Operator on Spheres.
      Mary R Sandoval*, Purdue University
      (931-58-162)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Spectral geometry of G-manifolds and foliations.
      Ken Richardson*, Texas Christian University
      (931-58-154)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Asymptotic estimates of Husimi distributions centered near critical points.
      Mariah Birgen*, Wartburg College
      (931-58-312)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Asymptotics of powers of positive line bundles over Kahler manifolds.
      Steve Zelditch, IV*, Johns Hopkins University
      (931-32-164)
  • Saturday March 21, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
    Special Session on Spectral Geometry, IV

    Room 3, Burhans Hall
    Organizers:
    Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech University gornet@math.ttu.edu
    Peter Anton Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu

    • 2:45 p.m.
      Sharp constant in the Trudinger-Moser- Adam inequality .
      Sun-Yung A. Chang*, UCLA
      (931-53-240)
    • 3:15 p.m.
      Hausdorff dimension and limits of Kleinian groups.
      Richard D. Canary, University of Michigan
      Edward C. Taylor*, University of Kentucky
      (931-58-27)
    • 3:45 p.m.
      Length spectra of graphs.
      Gregory T Quenell*, Oberlin College
      (931-05-173)
    • 4:15 p.m.
      Hill's Equation for a Regular Graph.
      Robert C. Carlson*, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
      (931-34-63)
    • 4:45 p.m.
      Spectral Theory of Toeplitz Operators on Manifolds.
      Victor W. Guillemin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      Kate Okikiolu*, University of California, San Diego
      (931-47-345)
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