AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:48

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

Saturday April 4, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometric Methods in Hydrodynamics, I
Room 2B, TUCC
Organizers:
Gerard K. Misiolek, University of Notre Dame and California Institute of Technology gmisiole@artin.helios.nd.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Geometric and Topological Aspects of Vortex Knot Dynamics.
  Renzo L Ricca*, Department of Mathematics, University College London, UK
  (933-58-97)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Embedding Hamiltonian Systems into Geodesic Systems on Lie Groups.
  Toshihiko Ono*, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
  (933-70-228)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Lagrangian formalism on complex manifolds: Leray residue vs. Stokes formula.
  Boris A. Khesin*, University of Toronto/IAS
  (933-58-191)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Jacobi fields in hydrodynamics and some integrable systems.
  Tsutomu Kambe*, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo
  (933-76-140)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Algebraic-geometric $n$-orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems.
  Igor Krichever*, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
  (933-14-102)

Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometric Methods in Hydrodynamics, II
Room 2B, TUCC
Organizers:
Gerard K. Misiolek, University of Notre Dame and California Institute of Technology gmisiole@artin.helios.nd.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Instablity of geodesics on the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms (motions of fluid) of 2-sphere.
  Kyo Yoshida*, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo
  (933-76-150)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Hamiltonian Hydrodynamic Type Systems and Riemannian Geometry.
  Sergey P. Novikov*, University of Maryland at College Park and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow
  (933-58-119)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Flows on Diffeomorphisms of the Circle, Grassmannians and the Geometry of the Periodic KdV Equation.
  Maria E Schonbek, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Cruz
  Andrey N Todorov*, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Cruz
  Jorge P Zubelli, IMPA, Brazil
  (933-58-93)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Stability and Instability Criteria for Magnetohydrodynamics.
  Susan Friedlander*, Mathematics Department, University of Illinois, Chicago
  Misha Vishik, Mathematics Department, University of Texas, Austin
  (933-35-100)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Solutions to the Euler equations with unbounded vorticity.
  Misha Vishik*, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
  (933-35-103)

Sunday April 5, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometric Methods in Hydrodynamics, III
Room 2B, TUCC
Organizers:
Gerard K. Misiolek, University of Notre Dame and California Institute of Technology gmisiole@artin.helios.nd.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Stability of Stationary Flows of an Ideal Incompressible Fluid of Piecewise Constant Density.
  Yu. K. Kashaev, Rostov University
  Vasiliy I Sedenko*, Department of Fundamental and Applied Mathematics
  Victor I Yudovich, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics
  (933-76-99)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Riemannian Curvature of an Ideal Continuum Medium with Constraints.
  Victor Yudovich*, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics
  (933-58-94)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Motion of Incompressible Inviscid Fluids with Free Boundary and Surface Tension.
  David G. Ebin*, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  (933-35-108)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Riemannian geometry of the motion of a thin vortex filament and instability analysis.
  Suzuki Katsuhiro*, Department of Applied Physics, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
  (933-76-183)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Topological Euler Equations and Diffeomorphisms Groups.
  Rudolf Schmid*, Emory University
  (933-58-205)

Sunday April 5, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometric Methods in Hydrodynamics, IV
Room 2B, TUCC
Organizers:
Gerard K. Misiolek, University of Notre Dame and California Institute of Technology gmisiole@artin.helios.nd.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Spectral Geometry of Writhe and Helicity.
  Jason Cantarella*, University of Pennsylvania
  Dennis DeTurck, University of Pennsylvania
  Herman Gluck, University of Pennsylvania
  (933-53-135)
- 3:00 p.m.
  ${\cal D}^s_\mu(M)$ with weak $H^1$ metric.
  Steve Shkoller*, Caltech
  (933-58-165)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On minimal geodesics on groups of volume-preserving maps and the hydrostatic limit of the Euler equations.
  Yann Brenier*, Universite Paris 6
  (933-76-252)

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