Special Session on Curvature and Topology

Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting of the AMS

Montreal, May 3-5, 2002

Organizers:

Christina Sormani

Kris Tapp

Information:

Deadline for Consideration of Papers: January 10, 2002
Deadline for Abstracts: March 8, 2002
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Schedule:

I. Friday Afternoon Session:

1:00-1:40 pm: Nancy Hingston, Trenton State, hingston@math.tcnj.edu
"Metrics without Morse Index Bounds"
with Tobias Colding
1:45-2:25 pm: Stephane Sabourau, U. Penn., sabourau@hans.math.upenn.edu
"Volume, Diameter and Short Geodesics"
2:30-3:10 pm: Regina Rotman, Courant Institute, rotman@math1.cims.nyu.edu
"Estimates for the length of a shortest closed geodesic"
with Alex Nabutovsky
3:15-3:25 pm: ten minute discussion
3:25-4:05 pm: Alex Nabutovsky, Univ of Toronto, alex@math.toronto.edu
"The minimal mass of a stationary 1-cycle and the length of a shortest closed geodesic."
with Regina Rotman
4:10-4:50 pm: Greg Galloway Miami Univ., galloway@math.miami.edu,
"The Null Splitting Theorem and Applications to Asymptotically Flat and Asymptotically Desitter Spacetimes"

5:00 -6:00 pm: Plenary Lecture Niky Kamran, McGill University
"Wave Equations in Kerr Geometry"

II. Saturday Morning Session:

8:30 am: Welcome
8:40-9:20 am: Megan Kerr, Wellesley College, mkerr@firstclass.wellesley.edu,
"Homogeneous Einstein Manifolds"
with William Dickinson
9:25-10:05 am: McKenzie Wang, McMaster University, wang@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
"Conserved Quantities of the Cohomogeneity One Ricci flat equations"
with Andrew Dancer
10:10-10:50 am: Wilderich Tuschmann, Max-Planck-Institute, tusch@mis.mpg.de
"Manifolds of Nonnegative and Almost Nonnegative Curvature"

11:00-12:00 am: Plenary Lecture Nicholas M. Ercolani*, University of Arizona
"A Riemann-Hilbert Approach for the Asymptotics of Matrix Integrals and Map Enumeration"

1:30-2:30 pm: Plenary Lecture Lars Hesselholt*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Algebraic K-theory and traces"

III. Saturday Afternoon Session:

2:45-3:10 pm: Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University at New Brunswick, rong@math.rutgers.edu
"A connectedness principle in the geometry of positive curvature"
with Fuquan Fang, Sergio Mondonca
3:30-4:10 pm: Ravi Shankar, University of Michigan, shankar@umich.edu
"Symmetries of Eschenburg and Bazaikin spaces."
with Karsten Grove and Wolfgang Ziller
4:15-4:35 pm: twenty minute discussion
4:35-5:15 pm: Kris Tapp, SUNY at Stony Brook, ktapp@math.sunysb.edu
"Conditions for nonnegative and positive curvature on bundles"
5:20-6:00 pm: Fred Wilhelm, University of California Riverside, fred@math.ucr.edu,
"Inverse Comparison Geometry" w/ Peter Petersen
with Peter Petersen

IV. Sunday Morning Session:

8:40-9:20 am: forty minute discussion
9:25-10:05 am: Fangyang Zheng, Ohio State, zheng@math.ohio-state.edu
"Ricci degeneracy in nonpositively curved manifolds"
10:10-10:50 am: Guofang Wei, University of California at Santa Barbara, wei@math.ucsb.edu,
"Universal Covers for Hausdorff Limits of Noncompact Spaces"
with Christina Sormani

11:00-12:00 am: Plenary Lecture Rafael De La Llave*, University of Texas at Austin
Title TBA

V. Sunday Afternoon Session:

1:30-2:10 pm: Gordon Craig SUNY Stony Brook, gcraig@math.sunysb.edu
"Einstein Compactifications of Hyperbolic Manifolds"
2:15-2:55 pm: Christine Escher, Oregon State, tine@math.orst.edu
"Classifying families of seven manifolds"
3:00-3:15 pm: fifteen minute discussion
3:15-3:55 pm: Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormani@comet.lehman.cuny.edu
"Covering Spaces and their Limits"
with Guofang Wei
4:00-4:40 pm: Ethan Bloch, Bard College, bloch@bard.edu
"The Angle Defect for Arbitrary Simplicial Complexes"
4:45-5:25 pm: Maria Psarelli, Bronx Community College, maria.psarelli@bcc.cuny.edu
"Maxwell-Dirac Equations in 4-dimensional Minkowski Space"
5:30-6:15 pm: forty minute discussion

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