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2002 Central Section Meeting
Ann Arbor, MI, March 1-3, 2002
Meeting #974

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Special Session on Topics in Geometric Function Theory

  • Friday March 1, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Topics in Geometric Function Theory, I
    Room 229, Dennison Building
    Organizers:
    David A. Herron, University of Cincinnati david.herron@math.uc.edu
    Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Texas nageswari@math.utexas.edu
    Jeremy T. Tyson, SUNY at Stony Brook tyson@math.sunysb.edu

    • 1:00 p.m.
      Geometric Characterizations of Gromov Hyperbolicity.
      Stephen M. Buckley*, NUI Maynooth/U. Michigan
      (974-30-223)
    • 1:30 p.m.
      Elliptic diffusions, exit times and the quasihyperbolic metric.
      Craig A Nolder*, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
      (974-60-10)
    • 2:00 p.m.
      Symmetric Stable Processes Stay in Thick Sets.
      Jang-Mei Wu*, University of Illinois, University of Illinois, Urbana
      (974-31-52)
    • 2:30 p.m.
      The Dirichlet problem for $p$-harmonic functions in metric spaces.
      Anders Bj\"orn*, Link\"oping University
      Jana Bj\"orn, Lund University
      Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Texas at Austin
      (974-31-90)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Viscosity solutions on Grushin-type planes.
      Thomas J. Bieske*, University of Michigan
      (974-35-211)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Approximation of Sobolev mappings.
      P Hajlasz*, Warsaw University and University of Michigan
      (974-46-233)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      ${\cal H}^1$-Estimates of Jacobians.
      Jani Onninen*, University of Jyvaskyla
      Tadeusz Iwaniec, Syracuse University
      (974-26-231)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      On `Wolff Snowflakes.'.
      John L Lewis*, University of Kentucky
      Verchota C Greg, Syracuse University
      Andrew L Vogel, Syracuse University
      (974-30-20)

  • Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
    Special Session on Topics in Geometric Function Theory, II
    Room 229, Dennison Building
    Organizers:
    David A. Herron, University of Cincinnati david.herron@math.uc.edu
    Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Texas nageswari@math.utexas.edu
    Jeremy T. Tyson, SUNY at Stony Brook tyson@math.sunysb.edu

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Doyle's Criterion of Type and a Counterexample to Nevanlinna's Conjecture.
      Sergei Merenkov*, Purdue University
      (974-30-147)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Meromorphic functions of the form $f(z) = \sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n/(z - z_n)$.
      John F Rossi*, Virginia Tech
      James K Langley, University of Nottingham
      (974-30-18)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Schwarz lemmas for bounded univalent functions.
      Eric D Schippers*, University of Michigan
      (974-30-08)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Backward-iteration sequences with bounded hyperbolic steps for analytic self-maps of the disk.
      Pietro Poggi-Corradini*, Kansas State University and University of Michigan
      (974-30-23)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Boundary curves and analytic continuation.
      Robert P Kaufman*, University of Illinois
      (974-30-81)
    • 11:00 a.m.
      The Inner Radius and Sequences of Domains (Preliminary Report).
      Leila Miller-Van Wieren*, University of Texas
      (974-30-219)

  • Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Topics in Geometric Function Theory, III
    Room 229, Dennison Building
    Organizers:
    David A. Herron, University of Cincinnati david.herron@math.uc.edu
    Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Texas nageswari@math.utexas.edu
    Jeremy T. Tyson, SUNY at Stony Brook tyson@math.sunysb.edu

    • 3:00 p.m.
      A Mobius invariant metric II.
      David Herron, University of Cincinnati
      William Ma*, Pennsylvania College of Technology
      David Minda, University of Cincinnati
      (974-30-34)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      The M\"obius modulus of ring domains in $\overline{\Bbb R}^n$.
      Zair S Ibragimov*, University of Michigan
      (974-30-172)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Asymptotically Symmetric Embeddings and Symmetric Quasicircles.
      Shanshuang Yang*, Emory University
      (974-30-40)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Reflections on reflections in quasidisks.
      Frederick W Gehring, University of Michigan
      Kari Hag*, University of Michigan
      (974-30-249)

  • Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Topics in Geometric Function Theory, IV
    Room 229, Dennison Building
    Organizers:
    David A. Herron, University of Cincinnati david.herron@math.uc.edu
    Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Texas nageswari@math.utexas.edu
    Jeremy T. Tyson, SUNY at Stony Brook tyson@math.sunysb.edu

    • 10:00 a.m.
      Isoperimetric inequalities for polygons.
      Alexander Yu. Solynin*, Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St. Petersburg and Texas Tech University
      (974-30-230)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      The exponent of convergence and a theorem of Astala.
      Petra Bonfert-Taylor*, Wesleyan University
      Edward C Taylor, Wesleyan University
      (974-30-80)
    • 11:00 a.m.
      Circle Packings and Quasiconformal Maps.
      G Brock Williams*, Texas Tech University
      (974-30-171)
    • 11:30 a.m.
      Aleksandrov Surfaces and Hyperbolicity.
      Byung-Geun Oh*, Purdue University
      (974-30-189)
    • 12:00 p.m.
      Local Variations and Polarization Techniques.
      Roger W Barnard*, Texas Tech University
      Kent Pearce, Texas Tech University
      Alexander Yu. Solynin, Texas Tech University
      (974-30-92)
    • 12:30 p.m.
      Discussion
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