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RIEMANNIAN TOPOLOGY
Geometric Structures on Manifolds A celebration of Charles P. Boyer's 65th birthday |
| All lectures on Wednesday, October 11, will be held in Ball Room C of the Student Union Building. The remaining lectures will be held in Room 125 of the Dane Smith Hall building. |
| 02:00 - 05:00. | Registration desk (4th floor, Humanities Building) |
| 08:00 - 11:00. | Registration desk (Student Union Building, Ball Room C) |
| 09:00 - 09:10. | Welcoming words by Dr. Vera Norwood, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences |
| 09:10 - 10:10. | Robert Bryant (Duke University) |
| Closed Sp(2)Sp(1)-structures on 8-manifolds |
| 10:30 - 11:30. | Wolfgang Ziller (University of Pennsylvania) |
| Survey: Manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature, Lecture I |
| 11:40 - 12:40. | James Sparks (Harvard University) |
| Some new results in Sasaki-Einstein geometry |
| 02:30 - 03:30. | Nigel Hitchin (Oxford University, Oxford) |
| Bihermitian metrics |
| 03:45 - 04:45. | Paul Gauduchon (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau) |
| Extremal Kähler metrics and stability on ruled surfaces |
| 05:00 - 06:00. | Charles P. Boyer (University of New Mexico) |
| Survey: Sasakian Geometry, Lecture I |
| 06:30 - 08:30 | Reception hosted by Dr. Reed Dasenbrock, UNM Provost |
| 09:00 - 10:00. | Jeff Cheeger (Courant Institute) |
| Differentiation, Nonembedding and Embedding |
| 10:30 - 11:30. | Wolfgang Ziller (University of Pennsylvania) |
| Survey: Manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature, Lecture II |
| 11:45 - 12:45. | János Kollár (Princeton University) |
| Positive Sasakian structures on 5-manifolds |
| 02:45 - 03:45. | John Lott (University of Michigan) |
| Long-time behaviour of type-III Ricci flow solutions |
| 04:00 - 05:00. | Claude LeBrun (SUNY, Stony Brook) |
| Survey: Einstein Metrics, Curvature Functionals, and the Geometrization of 4-Manifolds, Lecture I |
Friday October 13
| 09:00 - 10:00. | Karsten Grove (University of Maryland) |
| Positive curvature in the presence of symmetries |
| 10:30 - 11:30. | Wolfgang Ziller (University of Pennsylvania) |
| Survey: Manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature, Lecture III |
| 11:45 - 12:45. | Ludmil Katzarkov (University of Miami) |
| Birational Geometry and Homological Mirror Symmetry |
| 02:45 - 03:45. | Claude LeBrun (SUNY, Stony Brook) |
| Survey: Einstein Metrics, Curvature Functionals, and the Geometrization of 4-Manifolds, Lecture II |
| 04:00 - 05:00. | Kris Galicki (University of New Mexico) |
| Survey: Sasakian Geometry, Lecture II |
| 07:30 - 09:30 | Conference banquet, La Placita restaurant |
Saturday October 14
| 09:00 - 10:00. | Claude LeBrun (SUNY, Stony Brook) |
| Survey: Einstein Metrics, Curvature Functionals, and the Geometrization of 4-Manifolds, Lecture III |
| 10:15 - 11:15. | Santiago R. Simanca (University of New Mexico) |
| Survey: Sasakian Geometry, Lecture III |
| 11:30 - 12:30. | Stephan Stolz (University of Notre Dame) |
| Elliptic cohomology via conformal field theories? |
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