Texas Geometry and Topology Conference

February 17-19, 2017
Texas Tech University

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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

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

 

 

 

Saturday Feb. 18, 2017 — Math 010

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

Jacobians with prescribed eigenvectors -- Kogan

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

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.