2002 Fall Central Section Meeting
Madison, WI, October 12-13, 2002
Meeting #980

Special Session on

Optimal Geometry of Curves and Surfaces

Saturday October 12, 2002

• Saturday October 12, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Optimal Geometry of Curves and Surfaces
  Room B337, Van Vleck Hall (projector from room 218)
  
  • 10:00-10:20: Joseph H.G. Fu, Univ. Georgia, (980-53-312)
    Analytic aspects of the ropelength problem.
  • 10:30-10:50: Nancy C. Wrinkle, Univ. Georgia, (980-51-315)
    Examples and candidates for the ropelength problem.
  • 11:00-11:20: Oscar Gonzalez, UT-Austin, (980-49-299)
    Optimal shapes of curves with finite thickness.
• Saturday October 12, 2002, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Invited Address: Eleny Ionel, Univ. Wisconsin
  Relations Between Gromov-Witten Invariants.
  Room B102, Van Vleck Hall
  
• Saturday October 12, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Optimal Geometry of Curves and Surfaces
  Room B337, Van Vleck Hall
  
  • 2:00-2:20: Stephanie Alexander, Univ Illinois, Urbana, (980-53-283)
    The convex hull property of noncompact hypersurfaces with positive curvature.
  • 2:30-2:50: Mohammad Ghomi, Univ. South Carolina, (980-53-205)
    Surfaces with connected shades.
  • 3:00-3:20: Richard L Bishop, Univ. Illinois, Urbana, (980-53-243)
    Displacement estimates for curves with curvature bounds in CAT(K) spaces.
  • 3:30-3:50: Bruce Solomon, Indiana Univ., (980-51-273)
    Projecting (n-1)-cycles to zero on n-planes in R^(n+1).
  • 4:00-4:20: Jean E Taylor, Rutgers Univ., (980-35-165)
    A variational method to include surface diffusion with non-volume-conserving motion by mean curvature.
  • 4:30-4:50: John McCuan, Georgia Tech, (980-53-148)
    Roulades and variational problems.
    
• Saturday October 12, 2002, 5:10 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Invited Address: Mikhail Safonov, Univ. Minnesota
  General properties of solutions to second order elliptic and parabolic equations
  Room B102, Van Vleck Hall
  
• Saturday October 12, 2002, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  Reception hosted by the Department of Mathematics
  Lobby, Memorial Union

Sunday October 13, 2002

• Sunday October 13, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Optimal Geometry of Curves and Surfaces
  Room B337, Van Vleck Hall
  (Please note: This session will start half an hour earlier than officially listed, to accomodate a last-minute abstract.)
  • 9:00-9:20: Rob Kusner, Univ. Massachusetts
    Packing Rope in a Box: Compactness for Ropelength
  • 9:30-9:50: Thomas C. Hales, Univ. Pittsburgh, (980-51-319)
    The Honeycomb Conjecture And Its Gen eralizations.
  • 10:00-10:20: Matthias Weber, Indiana Univ., (980-53-74)
    Deformations of Minimal Surfaces in Euclidean Space.
  • 10:30-10:50: Konrad Polthier, TU Berlin, (980-53-221)
    Unstable periodic discrete minimal surfaces.
  • 11:00-11:20: Henry C Wente, Univ. Toledo, (980-49-203)
    Bifurcation Analysis for Constant Mean Curvature Spanners of Annular Type.
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Invited Address: Lawrence Ein, Univ. Illinois, Chicago
  Singularties Of Pairs And Birational Geometry.
  Room B102, Van Vleck Hall
  
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address: John M Sullivan, Univ. Illinois, Urbana
  Optimal Geometry in Topology. (980-53-194)
  Room B102, Van Vleck Hall
  
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Optimal Geometry of Curves and Surfaces
  Room B337, Van Vleck Hall
  (Please note: This session will be officially listed as a "discussion" period, but in fact it has talks by speakers whose abstracts were considered by the AMS to be late.)
  • 3:30-3:50: Erik D. Demaine, MIT
    Energetic Linkage Unfolding
  • 4:00-4:20: Ileana Streinu, Smith College
    High-degree Curves Generated by Mechanisms, with Applications in Rigidity