Friday, November 8
(all lectures are in Blocker 166)
4:30 - 5:00 RegistrationBlocker 141
5 p.m. - 6 p.m. - Talk for graduate students - Andreas Cap, University of Vienna, Cartan geometries
6 p.m - 7 p.m.Dinner
7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Mateusz Michalek, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, From topology to algebraic geometry and back again
Saturday, November 9
(all lectures are in Hawking Auditorium, Mitchell Physics Building)
8:30 - 9:00 a.m- Registration/ Coffee & PastriesMitchell Physics Building Penrose Plaza (pendulum area)
9 a.m. - 10 a.m. John Lott, UC Berkeley, Almost Ricci-flat 4-manifolds
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Kirsten Wickelgren, Duke University, An arithmetic count of rational plane curves
Lunch (on your own)
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Tian Yang. Texas A&M University, Some progress on the volume conjecture for the Turaev-Viro invariants
3:00 p.m. - 4 p.m. Andreas Cap, University of Vienna, Geometric compactifications and parabolic geometries
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Irina Bobkova, Texas A&M University, Picard groups in chromatic homotopy theory
6:30 p.m. Conference dinner
Sunday, November 10
(all lectures are inBlocker 166)
9:00 a.m - 9:30 a.m. Coffee & Pastries Blocker 141
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Mikhail Lyubich, Stony Brook University, Conformal dynamics: Julia sets, Kleinian groups, and Schwarz reflections
10:50 a.m. Mikhail Gromov, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU and IHES, Metric inequalities for manifolds with positive mean curvatures and with positive scalar curvatures