Conference Schedule
All talks will be in the Chemistry & Mathematics buildings, at 8 o'clock and 10 o'clock off Memorial Circle, east central portion on this Campus Map
Friday Feb. 17, 2017 — Chemistry 107 |
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5:00 - 5:45 PM |
Conference Reception |
5:45 - 6:00 PM |
Introduction by Department Chair -- Toda |
6:00 - 7:00 PM |
Mathematical discussion for general audiences -- Meeks |
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Saturday Feb. 18, 2017 — Math 010 |
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8:30 AM |
Refreshments |
9:00 - 10:00 AM |
Harmonic maps from Riemann surfaces to k-symmetric spaces via loop groups -- Dorfmeister |
10:00 - 10:30 AM |
Break |
10:30 - 11:30 AM |
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11:30 - 1:30 PM |
Lunch Break |
1:30 - 2:30 PM |
The Alekseevsky Conjecture -- Petersen |
2:30 - 3:00 PM |
Break |
3:00 - 4:00 PM |
Topological invariants via local-to-global constructions of QFT -- Grady |
4:00 - 4:15 PM |
Break |
4:15 - 5:15 PM |
Maximal cusps of low volume -- Gabai (with Robert Haraway, Robert Meyerhoff, Nathaniel Thurston and Andrew Yarmola) |
6:00 - 8:30 PM |
Conference Banquet |
Sunday Feb. 19, 2017 — Math 010 |
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8:30 - 9:00 AM |
Refreshments |
9:00 - 10:00 AM |
The Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture for symplectic manifolds -- Ionel |
10:00 - 10:15 AM |
Break |
10:15 - 11:15 AM |
Configuration Spaces and Materials Science -- Lagarias |
11:15 - 11:30 AM |
Break |
11:30 - 12:30 PM |
Recent progress in the theory of constant mean curvature surfaces -- Meeks |
After the Conference, on Monday at 3:30 PM in Chemistry 107, the new scholar Dr. Hung Thanh Tran will present a Colloquium on Index of A Free Boundary Minimal Surface. Please attend if you are able to stay through Monday.