Proceedings of the Special Session on Geometry, Physics, and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations held at the 856th meeting of the American Mathematical Society at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, March 2324, 1990T.p. verso.

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Null directions and curvature ; Generalized stereographic projections with prescribed scalar curvature ; The conjugacy index and simple astigmatic focusing ; On the size of the blowup set for a quasilinear parabolic equation ; Contact anifolds with positive scalar curvature ; Remarks on the operator rm div(\nabla u\vert \nabla u\vert ) ; Finite inverse spectral geometry ; Conformal metrics with singularities and finite negative total curvature on Riemann surfaces ; How to hear the volume of convex domains ; Gradient estimates for solutions of nonlinear parabolic oblique boundary problem ; Liouville theorems and regularity of minimizing harmonic maps into superstrongly unstable manifolds John K Beem and Phillip E Parker ; Philippe Delanoe ; Paul E Ehrlich and Gerard G Emch ; Michael E Gage ; S I Goldberg and D Perrone ; Bernhard Kawohl ; Jeffrey M Lee ; Robert C McOwen ; Peter Li Andrejs Treibergs and ShingTung Yau ; Nina N Uraltseva ; S Walter Wei