Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 23, 2010 00:39:29

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Francisco, CA, January 13-16, 2010 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1056

• Saturday January 16, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Parabolic Geometries, Integrable Systems, and Twistor Theory, I
  Room 2006, 2nd Floor, Moscone
  Organizers:
  Dana Mihai, Carnegie Mellon University dmihai@andrew.cmu.edu
  Jonathan Holland, University of Pittsburgh
  George Sparling, University of Pittsburgh
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Weyl and the foundations (1918, 1929) of gauge theory.
    Alexander Afriat*, Université de Bretagne Occidentale (PaHST & REHSEIS)
    (1056-83-1022)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Affine sphere equation, Hitchin system and Painleve III.
    Prim Plansangkate*, Centre de recherches mathématiques
    (1056-51-634)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Invariants of projective structures on surfaces and some applications.
    Robert L Bryant*, University of California at Berkeley and MSRI
    (1056-53-31)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Four-dimensional metrics conformal to Kahler.
    M. Dunajski*, University of Cambridge
    (1056-53-562)
• Saturday January 16, 2010, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Parabolic Geometries, Integrable Systems, and Twistor Theory, II
  Room 2006, 2nd Floor, Moscone
  Organizers:
  Dana Mihai, Carnegie Mellon University dmihai@andrew.cmu.edu
  Jonathan Holland, University of Pittsburgh
  George Sparling, University of Pittsburgh
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Generic rank two distributions on five-manifolds and associated conformal structures.
    Katja Sagerschnig*, University of Vienna, Austria
    (1056-53-792)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Symplectification, Generalized Tanaka Prolongations, and Geometry of Distributions.
    Igor Zelenko*, Texas A&M University
    (1056-53-805)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Local twistors and the conformal field equations.
    Jörg Frauendiener*, University of Otago
    (1056-53-375)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Third order odes and conformal Finsler geometries.
    Jonathan E Holland*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1056-53-593)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Variational calculus in non-commutative frames.
    Irina A Kogan*, North Carolina State University
    (1056-53-551)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Non-compact Hopf Maps, Quantum Hall Effect, and Twistor Theory.
    Kazuki Hasebe*, Takuma National College of Technology
    (1056-51-696)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Integrable models and the gauge/string duality.
    Radu S Roiban*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1056-00-2004)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Chern-Moser chains of left-invariant CR structures on SU(2) via Fefferman approach.
    Alex L Castro*, UCSC
    Richard Montgomery, UCSC
    (1056-32-654)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The exceptional Lie group $\mathbb{G}_2$ and gravity.
    George Arthur Sparling*, Laboratory of Axiomatics, University of Pittsburgh
    (1056-53-1661)