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AMS Special Session on Geometry
of Curves and\\ Surfaces / Twelfth
Annual Southeast Geometry
Conference,\\
March 16-18, 2001.  
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The special session represents this year's incarnation of the annual
SouthEast Geometry Conference. It will be held at the University of
South Carolina, Columbia SC on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, March
16-18, 2001.


{\bf SEGC funds are available to those without grant support who wish to
attend the conference/special session.} Preference will be given to
graduate students and other young mathematicians. It is not necessary
to contribute a talk to take advantage of these funds.  For more
information contact Joe Fu at {\tt fu@math.uga.edu}.


The full program for the AMS meeting can be found at\\
\mbox{\tt http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2048{\s}special.html}. 


Information
about registration, accommodations, and the like can be found at\\
\mbox{\tt http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2048{\s}other.html}.  

More information about the SouthEast Geometry Conference is at\\
\mbox{\tt http://www.math.sc.edu/$\sim$howard/SEGC/}.

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\multicolumn{3}{|l|}{\bf Friday, March 16, Afternoon Session:}\\
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2:30--2:50 &Thomas A. Ivey  
	& Integrable Geometric Evolution Equations for  Curves. \\ \hline
3:00--3:20&  Alina Stancu 
	&Evolving piecewise linear convex curves in the plane. \\ \hline
3:30--3:50 & Eddie Fuller
	& Constructing Knot Isotopies with Geometric Constraints\\ && 
	Using Holonomic Space Curves.\\ \hline
4:00--4:20 & Joseph H. Fu
	& A notion of criticality for ropelength.  \\ \hline
4:30--4:50  & Rob Kusner 
	&Ropelength, thickness and conformal modulus of links. \\ \hline
5:00--5:45  & Jason H. Cantarella
	&Many knot energies are minimized by circles. \\ \hline  \hline 
\multicolumn{3}{|l|}{\bf Saturday, March 17, Morning Session:}\\ \hline 
8:30--8:50 & Mohammad Ghomi
	&Skew Loops and Quadric Surfaces.  \\ \hline
9:00--9:20&   Henry C. Wente 
	& Explicit Solutions to the $H$-Surface Equation on Tori.\\ \hline
9:30--9:50 & Stephanie Alexander
	&The Convex Hull Property and Topology of Hypersurfaces \\&&
	with Nonnegative Curvature. \\ \hline
10:00--10:45 & John M. Sullivan 
	& The Second Hull of a Knotted Curve. \\ \hline \hline
\multicolumn{3}{|l|}{\bf Saturday, March 17, Afternoon Session:}\\ \hline 
3:00--3:20 & Andrejs E. Treibergs
	&Nonpositively curved surfaces in Euclidean Space.  \\ \hline
3:30--3:50&  Joel L. Weiner 
	&Isometric immersions of the Euclidean plane into Euclidean\\&&
	4-space.  \\ \hline
4:00--4:20 & Scott D. Pauls
	&Smooth minimal surfaces in the Heisenberg group.\\ \hline
4:30--4:50 & Jie Qing
	& On the finite time singularities of the heat flow for 
	harmonic\\&& maps from surfaces. \\ \hline
5:00--5:20 & John McCuan
	&Continua of singular minimal graphs. \\ \hline
5:30--6:15 & Frank Morgan
	&Area-minimizing Surfaces in Cones and Double Bubbles. \\
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\multicolumn{3}{|l|}{\bf Sunday, March 18, Morning Session:}\\ \hline 
9:30--9:50 & Ralph Howard 
	&Unfoldings of Space Curves. \\ \hline
10:00--10:20 & Shihshu Walter Wei
	&Minimal Varieties and $p$-harmonic maps.\\ \hline
10:30--10:50 & Elisabeth M.  Werner
	&An Analysis of Completely-Positive Trace-Preserving 
	Maps on $\mathcal{M}_2$. \\ \hline
11:00--11:20 & Richard L. Bishop
	&Spines and Topology of Thin Riemannian 3-Manifolds. \\ \hline
11:30--11:50 & David A. Singer
	&Diffeomorphisms of the Circle and Hyperbolic Curvature. \\ \hline
12:00--12:20 & Svetlana A. Krat
	&On pairs of metrics invariant under a co-compact action of
        a group . \\
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For more information contact one of the orignizers:
Mohammad Ghomi {\tt ghomi@math.sc.edu} or Ralph Howard
{\tt howard@math.sc.edu}


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