Riemannian Topology

RIEMANNIAN TOPOLOGY
Geometric Structures on Manifolds
A celebration of Charles P. Boyer's 65^th birthday

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Oct. 10-14, 2006

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Confirmed Speakers:

Robert Bryant	Jeff Cheeger	Paul Gauduchon
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:

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:

L²-cohomology of Spaces with Non-isolated Conical Singularities and Non-multiplicativity of the Signature

Jeff Cheeger & Xianzhe Dai

Hirzebruch surfaces and weighted projective planes

Paul Gauduchon

Quaternionic Kähler moduli spaces

Nigel Hitchin

Homological mirror symmetry and algebraic cycles

Ludmil Katzarkov

Positive Sasakian structures on 5-manifolds

János Kollár

Four-Manifolds, Curvature Bounds, and Convex Geometry

Claude LeBrun

The 1-nullity of Sasakian manifolds

Philipe Rukimbira

New Results in Sasaki-Einstein geometry

James Sparks

Some Examples of toric Sasaki-Einstein Manifolds

Craig van Coevering

On the geometry of cohomogeneity one manifolds with positive curvature

Wolfgang Ziller

The Sasaki Cone and Extremal Sasakian Metrics

Charles P. Boyer, Kris Galicki & Santiago R. Simanca

Contact 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
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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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