RIEMANNIAN TOPOLOGY
Geometric Structures on Manifolds
A celebration of Charles P. Boyer's
65th birthday
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Oct. 10-14, 2006
Confirmed Speakers:
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Robert Bryant |
Jeff Cheeger |
Paul Gauduchon |
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Karsten Grove |
Nigel Hitchin |
Ludmil Katzarkov |
János Kollár |
Claude LeBrun |
John Lott |
James Sparks |
Stephan Stolz |
Wolfgang Ziller |
Organizing Committee:
K. Galicki,
E. Gasparim,
S. Simanca.
The objective of this meeting is to provide a forum for the discussion of
recent advances in the areas of positive sectional curvature, Kähler
and Sasakian geometry, and their interrelation to mathematical physics,
especially M and Superstring theory. We intend to create and provide a
platform for the discussion of these fundamental ideas, the growth they
have experienced in the recent past, and the open problems of interest.
There will be three series of survey lectures/minicourses:
- I: Manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature (W. Ziller).
- II: Einstein metrics, Curvature Functionals, and the Geometrization of 4-Manifolds (C. LeBrun).
- III:
Sasakian Geometry (C. Boyer, K. Galicki & S. Simanca).
We have limited funds to support participants in the conference,
particularly graduate students and recent phds. You may apply for support
on the web registration form, or by
sending e-mail to rietop@math.unm.edu.
If you apply for support, please provide us with your curriculum vitae.
Applications of graduate students and postdocs should be backed by one
letter of recommendation. We look forward to seeing you this Fall in
Albuquerque.
Conference Proceedings:
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The Proceedings of this conference are contained in the volume
Riemannian Topology and Geometric Structures
on Manifolds, published in the series Progress in Mathematics of
Birkhäuser, 271. It just appeared (Nov. 2008),
and contains the following contributions:
| Jeff Cheeger &
Xianzhe Dai |
L2-cohomology of Spaces with
Non-isolated
Conical Singularities and Non-multiplicativity of the Signature
| Paul Gauduchon |
Hirzebruch surfaces and weighted projective planes
| Nigel Hitchin
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Quaternionic Kähler moduli spaces
| Ludmil Katzarkov |
Homological mirror symmetry and algebraic cycles
| János Kollár |
Positive Sasakian structures on
5-manifolds
| Claude LeBrun
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Four-Manifolds, Curvature Bounds, and Convex
Geometry
| Philipe
Rukimbira |
The 1-nullity of Sasakian manifolds
| James Sparks
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New Results in Sasaki-Einstein geometry
| Craig van Coevering |
Some Examples of toric Sasaki-Einstein Manifolds
| Wolfgang Ziller
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On the geometry of cohomogeneity one manifolds with positive curvature
| Charles P. Boyer, Kris Galicki & Santiago R. Simanca
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The Sasaki Cone and Extremal Sasakian Metrics
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Addresses: | Riemannian Topology
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
E-mail: rietop@math.unm.edu
Fax: (505) 277-5505
c/o Riemannian Topology |
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This event is sponsored by the
National Science Foundation, the Efroymson Foundation, an anonymous source,
the College of Arts and Sciences Conference Fund, and the Provost Speakers
Fund.
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The University of New Mexico is
an affirmative action/equal employment opportunity educator and employer.
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