Texas Geometry and Topology Conference

 Feb. 22-24, 2008
Texas Tech University

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Friday Feb. 22, 2008  
5:30 PM Pickup from Hotel to Conference
6:00 PM Reception - Lobby of Math Building
6:15 PM Pickup from Hotel to Conference - 2nd Trip
8:00 PM Colleen Robles, Texas A&M
  Rigidity of Projective Homogeneous Varieties
9:15 PM Pickup from Conference to Hotel

 

Saturday Feb. 23, 2008  
8:30 AM Pickup from Hotel to Conference
9:00 - 10:00 AM Ken Richardson, TCU
  Desingularizing Compact Lie Group Actions
10:00 - 10:30 AM Break
10:30 - 11:30 AM Emma Previato, Boston University
  Theta Functions and Isospectral Manifolds
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:30 PM Vladimir Chernov, Dartmouth
  Causality and Linking in Spacetimes
2:30 - 3:00 PM Break
3:00 - 4:00 PM Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Princeton
  Compactness of Conformally Compact Einstein Manifolds of Dimension 3+1
4:00 - 4:15 PM Break
4:15 - 5:15 PM Adam Sikora, SUNY Buffalo
  Quantizations of Character Varieties and Knot Theory
5:15 PM Pickup from Conference to Hotel
6:30 PM Pickup from Hotel to Banquet
7:00 PM Banquet at Harrigans Grill and Bar
9:00 PM Pickup from Banquet to Hotel

 

Sunday Feb. 24, 2008  
8:30 AM Pickup from Hotel to Conference
9:00 - 10:00 AM Ian Anderson, Utah State
  Superposition Formulas for Differential Systems
10:00 - 10:30 AM Break
10:30 - 11:30 AM Richard Melrose, MIT
  Adiabatic Limits and Morse Decomposition
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Ian Anderson, Utah State, Software Presentation
  Differential Geometry with Maple
12:15 PM Pickup from Conference to Hotel
1:00 PM Pickup from Hotel to Airport