2005 Midwest Geometry Conference

Ohio State University, Columbus

April 29 - May 1, 2005

Organizing Committee:
Thomas Branson (U. of Iowa), Andrzej Derdzinski (Ohio State), Tadeusz Januszkiewicz (Ohio State), Lawrence Peterson (U. of North Dakota), John Ryan (U. of Arkansas), S. Walter Wei (U. of Oklahoma), Fangyang Zheng (Ohio State)

The conference was supported by a grant from NSF along with funding from the Mathematical Research Institute of the Ohio State University and College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the Ohio State University.

Topics:

Positively curved manifolds

Ricci flow, solitons and Einstein metrics

Geometric group theory

Plenary talks:

• Huai-Dong Cao (Lehigh):  Stability for Ricci solitons
  
  
• Bennett Chow (UC San Diego):  Survey of differential Harnack estimates for geometric and heat flows from Li-Yau to Hamilton to Perelman
  
  
• Claude LeBrun (Stony Brook):  Einstein metrics, curvature functionals, and the differential topology of 4-manifolds
  
  
• Igor Mineyev (Urbana-Champaign):  Metric conformal structures in hyperbolic groups  (abstract)
  
  
• Xiaochun Rong (Rutgers):  Fundamental groups of positively curved manifolds with symmetry  (abstract)
  
  
• Ralf Spatzier (Ann Arbor):  About the classification of Anosov actions  (abstract)

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There were also 30-minute contributed talks and a discussion session on future directions in geometry.

Click for the schedule,  list of participants,  titles of talks,  abstracts,  a white paper pdf, html by Lawrence Peterson, summarizing the session on future directions,  an online registration form,  hotel information,  banquet information.

If you have questions, contact Andrzej Derdzinski, andrzej@math.ohio-state.edu