Proceedings of the Special Session on Nonlinear Problems in Geometry ... held at the 820th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society in Mobile, Alabama, May 34, 1985T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographies.

Nonexistence of Riemannian metrics with prescribed Ricci tensor ; On symmetrization ; Critical associated metrics on symplectic manifolds ; Complete metrics of negative scalar curvature on noncompact manifolds ; Local existence of smooth metrics with prescribed curvature ; Visibility of the Martin boundary for quasiconformal metrics on _1 ; On an areapreserving evolution equation for plane curves ; The Laplace spectra versus the length spectra of Riemannian manifolds ; The decomposition and superposition of rankone gravitational potential tensors ; Negative curvature and conformal deformations of complete manifolds ; Spectral rigidity for manifolds with negative curvature operator ; Three problems in nonlinear differential geometry ; Selfdual Einstein metrics ; Exterior differential systems and the problem of characterizing Gauss maps Alfred Baldes ; Gerard Besson ; D E Blair and S Ianus ; J Bland and M Kalka ; Dennis DeTurck and Deane Yang ; Charles L Epstein ; Michael Gage ; Carolyn S Gordon ; R J Knill A P Whitman and W R Stoeger ; Robert C McOwen ; MinOo Maung ; Vladimir I Oliker ; Al Vitter ; Steven Wilkinson