AMS Special Session

Optimal Geometry

at the AMS Spring Sectional Meeting, Urbana, 18-21 Mar 1999

Don't miss the Evening of Mathematical Videos, 8pm Friday in 314 Altgeld

Saturday morning:

  9:30 Konrad Polthier, TUBerlin:

"Discrete minimal surfaces on non-conforming triangulations"

10:15 Chaim Goodman-Strauss, Arkansas:

"Conjectured minimal surfaces derived from Hamiltonian polyhedra in the cubic lattice"

Saturday afternoon

  3:00 Ken Brakke, Susquehanna:

"Instability of the wet cube cone soap film"

  3:45 Ailana Fraser, Courant:

"On the free-boundary variational problem for minimal disks"

  4:30 George Kamberov, WashU:

"The Willmore energy of quaternionic line bundles"

  5:15 Frank Pacard, Paris:

"Connected sums of constant mean curvature surfaces in Euclidean 3-space"

Sunday morning

  9:30 Jason Cantarella, UPenn:

"Optimal contact structures"

10:15 Jianguo Cao, NotreDame:

"Domains with least perimeter for given area, in surfaces of variable curvature"

• John Sullivan, jms@math.uiuc.edu
• Rob Kusner, kusner@math.umass.edu