2009 Spring Southeastern Section Meeting
Raleigh, NC, April 4-5, 2009 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1048

• Saturday April 4, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Cartan's equivalence method and singularity analysis.
    Raouf Dridi*, Czech Technical University
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Integrability of 2nd order PDE and the geometry of $GL(2,\mathbb{R})$-structures.
    Abraham D. Smith*, Duke University
    slides
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Maximally symmetric hyperbolic equations of generic type.
    Dennis The*, Texas A&M University
    slides
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Geometry of control-affine systems in low dimensions.
    Jeanne Clelland*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Christopher Moseley, Calvin College
    George Wilkens, University of Hawaii, Manoa
    slides
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On projective equivalence of univariate polynomial subspaces.
    Peter Crooks, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
    Robert Milson*, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
    slides
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lie point symmetries and numerical solutions of differential equations.
    Pavel Winternitz*, Universite de Montreal
• Saturday April 4, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Green's function for the Hodge Laplacian on some classes of Riemannian and Lorentzian symmetric spaces.
    Niky Kamran*, McGill University
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Klein geometry, group invariant soliton equations, and bi-Hamiltonian geometric curve flows.
    Stephen Anco*, Brock University
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Moving frames, variational problems, and geometric flows.
    Peter J Olver*, University of Minnesota
    slides
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the preservation of invariants of arc-length type by geometric Hamiltonian curve flows.
    Gloria Mari Beffa*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    slides
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Geometry of Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.
    Kris Jenssen*, Penn State University
    Irina Kogan, North Carolina State University
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Austere Submanifolds of Dimension 4.
    Marianty Ionel*, University of Toledo
    Thomas Ivey, College of Charleston
    slides
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A fresh look at Darboux integrability for hyperbolic second-order differential equation in the plane.
    Martin Juras*, Qatar University
    slides
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Symmetry classification of General rank-3 Pfaffian systems in 5-dimension.
    Francesco Strazzullo*, Utah State University
    slides
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Pseudogroups, Moving Frames, and Invariant Variational Principles.
    Juha Pohjanpelto*, Oregon State University
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bäcklund Transformations via Symmetry Reduction.
    Ian Anderson*, Utah State Univ.
    Mark Fels, Utah State Univ.
    slides
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hamilton-Jacobi theory in Minkowski space via Cartan geometry.
    Roman Smirnov*, Dalhousie University
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stability of Relative Equilibria of Discrete Nonholonomic Systems.
    Cameron Lynch, North Carolina State University
    Dmitry V Zenkov*, North Carolina State University
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Special classes of symmetry reductions for PDEs involving arbitrary functions.
    Nicoleta Virginia Bila*, Fayetteville State University
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On Sections and Curvature for Super Yang-Mills Theory.
    James S. Cook*, Liberty University
    Ronald O. Fulp, North Carolina State University

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