Special Session on Convergence of Manifolds

Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting of the AMS

Lawrenceville, NJ, April 17-18, 2004

Organizers:

Xiaochun Rong (rong at math.rutgers.edu) Rutgers University
Christina Sormani (sormanic at member.ams.org) Lehman College, City University of New York
Guofang Wei (wei at math.ucsb.edu) University of California at Santa Barbara

Information:

• Deadline for Consideration of Papers: December 30, 2003
• Deadline for Abstracts: February 20, 2004
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• Accomodations, food, activities, registration, parking, travel, weather...

Speakers:

• Cristina Abreau Suzuki, CUNY Graduate Center, csuzuki at mindspring.com, "Rough Isometries Between Non-Compact Riemannian Manifolds"
• Stephanie Alexander, U.I.U.C. sba at math.uiuc.edu, "Generalized cone constructions in Alexandrov Riemannian and Lorentz spaces" (w/ Richard Bishop).
• Igor Belegradek, Georgia Tech, ib at math.gatech.edu, "Negative pinching and nilpotent groups." work with Vitali Kapovitch
• Fuquan Fang, Capital Normal University, Beijing, fuquanfang at eyou.com, "Rigidity of 5-manifolds of pinched positive sectional curvature."
• Vitali Kapovitch, University of California at Santa Barbara, vitali at math.ucsb.edu, "Classification of negatively pinched manifolds with almost nilpotent fundamental groups." work with Igor Belegradek.
• Svetlana A. Krat, Penn. State University, krat at mth.psu.edu
• Frederic Latremoliere, Berkeley University student, frederic at math.berkeley.edu, "Approximation of the quantum Tori by finite quantum Tori for the quantum Gromov-Haussdorff distance. "
• Johan Noldus, Vakgroep Wiskundige Analyse, Belgium, Johan.Noldus at UGent.be, "Lorentzian Gromov Hausdorff theory."
• Wei-Dong Ruan, University of Illinois at Chicago, ruan at math.uic.edu, "Degeneration of Kahler-Einstein manifolds."
• Natasa Sesum, MIT, natasas at math.mit.edu, "The curvature tensor and the convergence of metrics under the Ricci flow."
• Christina Sormani , Lehman College and Graduate Center, CUNY, sormani at comet.lehman.cuny.edu , "Convergence and the Covering Spectrum."
• Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University, mtwang at cpw.math.columbia.edu, "Deforming mappings by geometric flows."

• 9:00-9:20 a.m. (321 Memorial Hall)
  Rough Isometries Between Non-Compact Riemannian Manifolds.
  Cristina Abreu Suzuki*, The Graduate Center, CUNY student
  (997-53-57)
• 9:30-10:10 a.m. (321 Memorial Hall)
  Convergence and the Covering Spectrum.
  Christina Sormani, Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center
  Guofang Wei*, U.C.S.B.
  (997-58-119)
• 10:20-11:00 a.m. (321 Memorial Hall)
  On surfaces with small variation of Gaussian curvature.
  Svetlana A. Krat, Penn. State University,
• 11:10-12:05 p.m. (Theater, Bart Luedeke Student Center)
  Invited Address: Poincar\'e duality, free loop space, and strings.
  Dennis P. Sullivan*, Graduate Center at CUNY, SUNY Stony Brook
  
• 1:30-2:20 p.m. (Theater, Bart Luedeke Student Center)
  Invited Address: Affine isoperimetric inequalities.
  Gaoyong Zhang*, Polytechnic University
• 2:30-3:10 p.m. (321 Memorial Hall)
  Generalized cone constructions in Alexandrov, Riemannian and Lorentz spaces.
  Stephanie B Alexander*, UIUC
  Richard L Bishop, UIUC
  (997-53-132)
• 3:20-4:00 p.m. (321 Memorial Hall)
  Lorentzian Gromov Hausdorff theory.
  Johan Noldus*, Universiteit Gent
  (997-51-45)
• 4:10-4:50 p.m. (321 Memorial Hall)
  Approximation of the quantum Tori by finite quantum Tori for the quantum Gromov-Haussdorf distance.
  Frederic Latremoliere*, University of California, Berkeley
  (997-46-71)
• 5:00-5:40 p.m. (321 Memorial Hall)
  Discussion of Lorentzian Convergence

Sunday Program:

• 8:40-9:20 a.m. (321 Memorial Hall)
  Degeneration of Kahler-Einstein manifolds.
  Wei-Dong Ruan*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (997-53-126)
• 9:30-10:10 a.m. (321 Memorial Hall)
  The curvature tensor and the convergence of metrics under the Ricci flow.
  Natasa Sesum*, MIT
  (997-53-124)
• 10:20-11:00 a.m. (321 Memorial Hall)
  Deforming mappings by geometric flows.
  Mu-Tao Wang*, Columbia University
  (997-53-114)
• 11:10-12:05 p.m. (Theater, Bart Luedeke Student Center)
  Invited Address: Vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity.
  Sylvia Serfaty*, New York University-Courant Institute
• 1:30-2:20 p.m. (Theater, Bart Luedeke Student Center)
  Invited Address: Problems in topology left over from the twentieth century.
  William Browder*, Princeton University
• 2:30-3:10 p.m. (321 Memorial Hall)
  Rigidity of 5-manifolds of pinched positive sectional curvature.
  Fuquan Fang*, Nankai Institute of Mathemactis, Nankai University, China
  (997-53-60)
• 3:20-4:00 p.m. (321 Memorial Hall)
  Negative pinching and nilpotent groups.
  Igor Belegradek*, Georgia Tech
  Vilali Kapovitch, University of California Santa Barbara
  (997-53-97)
• 4:10-4:50 p.m. (321 Memorial Hall)
  Classification of negatively pinched manifolds with almost nilpotent fundamental groups.
  Vitali Kapovitch*, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Igor Belegradek, Georgia Institute of Technology,
  (997-53-07)
• 5:00 -5:40 p.m. (321 Memorial Hall)
  Discussion of Pinching

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