talks

2007 Lehigh Geometry/Topology conference Talks
PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
Saturday, October 6
11:00	NV I	Yong-Tom Siu	TBA
		Lunch
1:15	NV I	Gerhard Huisken	An isoperimetric concept for the mass in General Relativity
2:30	MG 101	Jonathan Keiter	Views of Normal Surfaces as Tracks in the Vertex-Linking Sphere
2:30	MG 110	tony bahri	Piecewise Polynomials and the Equivariant Cohomology of Weighted Projective Spaces
2:30	MG 111	Ivko Dimitric	Hypersurfaces of low-type in spaces of constant curvature
2:30	MG112	Simon Morgan	Flat norm distance on shape space and its smoothing properties
3:20	MG 101	Michael McCooey	Symmetry groups of non-simply-connected four-manifolds
3:20	MG 110	Jeanne Clelland	Backlund transformations and Darboux integrability for nonlinear wave equations
3:20	MG 111	Martin Bendersky	stable splitting of moment angle complexes
3:20	MG112	Djamila Aouada	Topological and geometrical modeling of 3D shapes using a global geodesic Morse function.
4:10	MG 101	Yongwu Rong	Clock moves and a combinatorial homology
4:10	MG 110	Yanir Rubinstein	Some discretizations of geometric evolution equations
4:10	MG 111	Craig J. Sutton	Local rigidty of naturally reductive metrics on simple Lie groups
4:10	MG112	Carolyn M. Salafia	Novel geometric measures of placentas and their branching structure.
4:50	MG 101	Daniel Kling	A Family of Invariants on Manifolds II
4:50	MG 110	Bianca Santoro	Complete Kahler Ricci-flat metrics on open manifolds
4:50	MG 111	Robert Foote	Pendulum Dynamics on Surfaces of Constant Curvature
4:50	MG112	Mark Johnson	Decomposing Diagram Cohomology
6:00	UC	Reception
7:00	UC	banquet
Sunday, October 7
9:00	NV I	Peter Ozsváth	Heegaard Floer homology and knots
10:30	MG 101	Pan Peng	On a proof of Labastida-Marino-Ooguri-Vafa conjecture
10:30	MG 110	David Hurtubise	Morse-Bott Homology
10:30	MG 111	Ricardo Castano-Bernard	Lagrangian 3-torus fibrations
10:30	MG112	Dan Lee	The Riemannian Penrose inequality for dimensions less than 8
11:20	MG 101	Chan-Ho Suh	Menasco normal form and recognizing unknot diagrams
11:20	MG 110	Damin Wu	Kahler--Einstein metrics on general quasi--projective manifolds
11:20	MG 111	Matthew Miller	Rational models for configuration spaces of lens spaces
11:20	MG112	Fernando Schwartz	On the topology of black holes
12:10		Lunch
1:15	NV I	Richard Hamilton	TBA
2:30	MG 101
2:30	MG 110	Thomas Shimkus	New Immersions of Grassmann Manifolds
2:30	MG 111	Christina Sormani	Conjugate Points on Length Spaces
2:30	MG112	Christopher W Seaton	Higher Orbifold Euler Characteristics for General Orbifolds
3:20	MG 101
3:20	MG 110
3:20	MG 111	Tom Lada	A-infinity and L-infinity Algebras via brace algebras
3:20	MG112	Natasa Sesum	Compactness results for the K\"ahler ricci flow
4:10	MG 101
4:10	MG 110
4:10	MG 111	Stephen F. Miller	Calculus of Spectra
4:10	MG112	Valentino Tosatti	The Calabi-Yau equation on symplectic manifolds
4:50	MG 101
4:50	MG 110	Ron Umble	Some naturally occurring examples of A-infinity bialgebras
4:50	MG 111	Tatyana Foth	Complex submanifolds, connections, and the semiclassical limit.
4:50	MG112	R. Andrew Hicks	Exterior Differential Systems for Optical Design
8:00		party at Cao's
Monday, October 8
9:00	NV I	Nick Kuhn	Models for mapping spaces
10:30	MG 101	Jesus Gonzalez	Topological complexity of lens spaces
10:30	MG 110
10:30	MG 111	Daniel Garbin	On the appearance of Eisenstein series thourgh degeneration
10:30	MG112	Thomas Ivey	Constructing Hopf Hypersurfaces in the Complex Hyperbolic Plane
11:20	MG 101
11:20	MG 110
11:20	MG 111	Jesse Ratzkin	Rigidity and deformations of constant mean curvature surfaces
11:20	MG112	Michael Munn	Almost equicontinuity and the construction of homotopy maps