Texas Geometry and Topology Conference
Tentative Schedule
All talks are in the
PGH Building, room 232. Buffet and breakfast are in 646 PGH.
(The Math. Dept. is on the sixth floor of the
PGH Building)
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Friday, Feb. 17:
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6:00 - 7:30 PM: Light buffet in 646 PGH Building
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8:00 - 9:00 PM: Brendan Hassett
Compact moduli spaces for surfaces of general type
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Saturday, Feb. 18:
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9:00 - 9:30 AM: Coffee, juice,
bagels and doughnuts,
in 646 PGH Building
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9:30 - 10:30 AM: Yum-Tong Siu
Multiplier ideals - a new technique linking
analysis and algebraic geometry
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11:00 - 12:00 AM: Shanyu Ji
Rigidity problems for proper holomorphic maps between
balls
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Lunch break
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2:00 - 3:00 PM: Zhongmin Shen
Randers metrics of scalar flag curvature
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3:15 - 4:15 PM:
Remarks by Garry Etgen and a short video of Prof. Chern
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4:30 - 5:30 PM: Shouchen Zhang
Chern numbers and Chern-Simons terms in physics
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6:30 - TBA PM: Banquet
Kim Son Restaurant at Downtown (2001 Jefferson St., Houston,
TX 77003, Tel: 713-222-2461)
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Sunday, Feb. 19:
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8:30 - 9:00 AM: Coffee, juice, bagels and
doughnuts, in 646 PGH Building
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9:00 - 10:00 AM: Robert Bryant
On Finsler 2-spheres of constant curvature
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10:30 - 11:30 AM: Dan Knopf
Ricci flow
with surgery, as applied to Poincare