AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:41

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday April 3, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Contact and Symplectic Geometry, I
Room 110, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Dragomir Dragnev, University of Southern California dragnev@math.usc.edu
Ko Honda, University of Southern California khonda@math.usc.edu
Sang Seon Kim, University of Southern California kimss@math.usc.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Higher Whitehead products in the symplectomorphism groups.
  Olguta Buse*, Michigan State University
  (996-53-157)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Toric symplectic structures that vanish on circles.
  Margaret Symington*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (996-53-119)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Invariants of real symplectic 4-manifolds and lower bounds in real enumerative geometry.
  Jean-Yves Welschinger*, \'Ecole normale sup\'erieure de Lyon
  (996-53-60)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Holomorphic open book decompositions and the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three.
  Casim Abbas*, Michigan State University
  (996-53-88)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Legendrian regular fibres in Small Seifert Spaces.
  Hao Wu*, MIT
  (996-57-46)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Degeneration of the Moduli Space of J-Holomorphic Discs and Legendrian Contact Homology.
  Ke Zhu*, Stanford University
  (996-53-48)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Contact and Symplectic Geometry, II
Room 110, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Dragomir Dragnev, University of Southern California dragnev@math.usc.edu
Ko Honda, University of Southern California khonda@math.usc.edu
Sang Seon Kim, University of Southern California kimss@math.usc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Lagrangian collapse and degeneration of holomorphic curves.
  Brett D Parker*, Stanford
  (996-53-98)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Towards the Genus-One GW-Invariants of a Quintic Threefold.
  Jun Li, Stanford
  Aleksey Zinger*, Stanford
  (996-51-101)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Legendrian submanifolds in $R^{2n+1}$.
  Tobias Ekholm, Uppsala University
  John Etnyre, University of Pennsylvania
  Michael G Sullivan*, MSRI/University of Massachusetts
  (996-53-131)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Pinwheels and bypasses.
  Ko Honda, University of Southern California
  William H Kazez, University of Georgia
  Gordana Mati\'c*, University of Georgia
  (996-57-195)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 p.m.
Special Session on Contact and Symplectic Geometry, III
Room 110, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Dragomir Dragnev, University of Southern California dragnev@math.usc.edu
Ko Honda, University of Southern California khonda@math.usc.edu
Sang Seon Kim, University of Southern California kimss@math.usc.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The failure of the parametric h-principle for maps with prescribed Jacobian.
  Joseph L Coffey*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  (996-53-188)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Lagrangian intersections and the Serre spectral sequence.
  Jean-Francois Barraud, Universite de Lille 1
  Octav Cornea*, University of Montreal
  (996-53-132)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Branching Floer homology: the definition.
  Viktor Ginzburg, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Basak Gurel*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Ely Kerman, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (996-53-159)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Branching Floer homology and the Hofer-Zehnder capacity.
  Viktor L Ginzburg, UC Santa Cruz
  Basak Z Gurel, SUNY Stony Brook
  Ely Kerman*, SUNY Stony Brook
  (996-58-138)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Instanton Floer homology with Lagrangian boundary conditions.
  Katrin Wehrheim*, Princeton University
  (996-58-139)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion

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