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Joint Mathematics Meetings
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and Grand Hyatt San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
January 10-13, 2015 (Saturday - Tuesday)
Meeting #1106

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

AMS Special Session on Geometries Defined by Differential Forms

• Monday January 12, 2015, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometries Defined by Differential Forms, I
  Room 007D, Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sergey Grigorian, University of Texas-Pan American grigorians@utpa.edu
  Sema Salur, University of Rochester
  Albert J Todd, University of California, Riverside
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Generalized Willmore surfaces and applications.
    Magdalena D. Toda*, Texas Tech University
    Bhagya Athukorallage, Texas Tech University
    (1106-53-82)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Almost Contact Structures and $G_2$-Manifolds.
    Albert J. Todd*, University of South Alabama
    (1106-53-2219)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Formality in Cosymplectic and Sasakian Geometries.
    Marisa Fernandez*, University of the Basque Country, Spain
    (1106-53-330)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Conformal and Bochner flatness in complex contact geometry and in the geometry of metric contact pairs.
    David E. Blair*, Michigan State University
    (1106-53-1370)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Special Hermitian metrics on compact complex manifolds and holomorphic deformations.
    Luis Ugarte*, University of Zaragoza, Spain
    (1106-53-1724)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Geometry and topology of $G_2$ and Spin$(7)$ submanifolds.
    Rebecca Glover*, University of Rochester
    (1106-53-2412)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Cylindrical Contact Homology: An Abridged Restrospective.
    Jo Nelson*, Institute for Advanced Study and Columbia University
    Micheal Hutchings, UC Berkeley
    (1106-53-1046)
• Tuesday January 13, 2015, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometries Defined by Differential Forms, II
  Room 007D, Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sergey Grigorian, University of Texas-Pan American grigorians@utpa.edu
  Sema Salur, University of Rochester
  Albert J Todd, University of California, Riverside
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Degeneracy of the Characteristic Variety and Canonical 1-forms on Involutive PDEs.
    Abraham D. Smith*, Fordham University
    (1106-58-1152)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The symplectic displacement energy.
    Peter Spaeth*, GE Global Research
    (1106-53-1122)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Symplectically flat vector distributions and their symmetries.
    Igor Zelenko*, Texas A&M University
    (1106-53-2671)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Space-Time Finite-Element Exterior Calculus and Variational Discretizations of Gauge Field Theories.
    Melvin Leok*, University of California, San Diego
    Joe Salamon, University of California, San Diego
    John Moody, University of California, San Diego
    (1106-65-1393)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Heterotic String Solutions with non-constant dilaton.
    Marisa Fernández, Universidad del País Vasco
    Stefan Ivanov, University of Sofia "St. Kl. Ohridski"
    Luis Ugarte, Universidad de Zaragoza
    Dimiter Vassilev*, University of New Mexico
    (1106-53-941)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Calculus on a Symplectic Reduced Space.
    Jordan Watts*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1106-51-1790)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Eigenvalues of moving domains in Riemannian manifolds of nonpositive curvature.
    Jesse Ratzkin*, University of Cape Town
    Tom Carroll, University College Cork
    (1106-35-1149)