2005 Midwest Geometry Conference

Ohio State University, Columbus

April 29 - May 1, 2005


SCHEDULE

Rooms (about building locations, see below):

Room BE 0285 is set aside for informal discussions on Friday. On Saturday and Sunday there will be many extra rooms available near MA 240.

Friday, April 29, 2005


12:00 noon - 1:15 p.m.
MW 724

Coffee and sandwiches


1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
JR 300

Alexander Ramm  (Kansas State)
On symmetry problems


2:10 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
JR 300

John Ryan  (U. Arkansas)
Ahlfors matrices, fundamental domains in  n  real
variables and hyperbolic Dirac operators


2:50 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
JR 300

Nicolae Anghel  (U. North Texas)
The spectrum of spherical Dirac-type operators


2:50 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
BE 0198

Daniel Galehouse  (U. Akron)
Spinor coordinate space and Dirac theory


3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
JR 300

Ivan Avramidi  (New Mexico Tech)
Spectral asymptotics in matrix geometry


3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
BE 0198

Joseph Towe  (Antelope Valley College)
A superstring vacuum in which superunification
preserves quark triplets


4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
MW 724

Coffee and pastries


5:10 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.
JR 300

Gordon Craig  (Bishop’s U., Canada)
Dehn filling and asymptotically hyperbolic
Einstein manifolds


5:10 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.
BE 0198

Jason Parsley  (U. Georgia)
Biot-Savart operator, helicity, and linking on  S3


5:50 p.m. - 6:20 p.m.
JR 300

Special session: Future Directions of Geometry



Saturday, April 30, 2005


7:50 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
MW 724

Coffee and pastries


8:40 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.
EA 170

Walter Wei  (U. Oklahoma)
A generalized uniformization theorem and
p-harmonic geometry


8:40 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.
MA 240

Victor Patrangenaru  (Texas Tech)
Metric classification of geometries of positive
Ricci curvature in  3D


9:20 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
MA 240

Claude LeBrun  (Stony Brook)
Einstein metrics, curvature functionals, and
the differential topology of 4-manifolds


10:40 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
MA 240

Igor Mineyev  (Urbana-Champaign)
Metric conformal structures in hyperbolic groups


11:40 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
MA 240

Lunch break



2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
MA 240

Bennett Chow  (San Diego)
Survey of differential Harnack estimates for geometric
and heat flows from Li-Yau to Hamilton to Perelman


3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
MA 240

Huai-Dong Cao  (Lehigh)
Stability for Ricci solitons


5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
MA 240

Gerard Thompson  (U. Toledo)
Projective equivalence of metrics and recent
developments in Hamilton-Jacobi theory


5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
EA 170

Jean Cortissoz  (U. Toledo)
Some remarks on the Ricci flow
in manifolds with boundary





7:00 p.m.

Banquet at Fairfield Inn



Sunday, May 1, 2005


8:00 a.m. - 8:40 a.m.
MW 724

Coffee and pastries


8:50 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
MA 240

Lina Wu  (U. Oklahoma)
Regularity for stable-stationary  p-harmonic maps
into an ellipsoid


8:50 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
EA 170

Junfang Li  (U. Oklahoma)
A variation problem from  p-harmonic point of view


9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
MA 240

Xiaochun Rong  (Rutgers)
Fundamental groups of positively curved
manifolds with symmetry


11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
MA 240

Ralf Spatzier  (Ann Arbor)
About the classification of Anosov actions



The Journalism Building is located across the street (18th Avenue) from the Department of Mathematics. The Baker Systems Engineering Building lies across another street (Neil Avenue) from the Journalism Building.

The MBI Lecture Hall (MA 240) is in the (old) Math Building, attached to the Math Tower, which houses the Department of Mathematics. Both buildings share the street address: 231 W. 18th Avenue. The Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI), located on the second floor of the old Math Building, has agreed to let us use their lecture hall during the weekend. East Annex is attached to the Math Tower on the other side (and the sign in front of it says just “209 W. 18th Avenue”).

The old Math Building and East Annex are both directly accessible from the Math Tower: on floors 1, 2 and 3 for the former, on the first (ground) and second floor for the latter.



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