YAMABE SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
GEOMETRY AND PHYSICS
Lectures were held in Room 16, in the basement level of
Vincent Hall
on the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota.
Registration and breaks were held in Room 120 Vincent Hall.
A
map to Vincent Hall
and a map of
the Twin Cities campus
may be useful.
If needed, here is a
Minneapolis/St. Paul vicinity map,
a link to
Radisson hotel information,
or a
ten-day weather forecast.
Friday, September 17, 2004
2:30 pm:
Registration and refreshments
120 Vincent Hall
All talks in Vincent Hall 16.
3:15 pm:
Welcome
Larry Gray (Math Department chair)
3:20 pm:
Introduction
Bob Gulliver, Conan Leung, Tian-Jun Li, Jiaping Wang
3:30 pm:
Kefeng Liu,
UCLA
String Duality and Localization
Abstract
Preprint
4:30 pm:
Coffee Break,
120 Vincent Hall
5:00 pm:
Duong Phong,
Columbia University
Superstring Perturbation at Two-Loops
Abstract
Preprints
Saturday, September 18, 2004
8:15 pm:
Continental Breakfast
120 Vincent Hall
All talks in Vincent Hall 16.
9:30 am:
Shing-Tung Yau,
Harvard University
Positive quasi-local mass in general relativity
Abstract
10:30 am:
Group Photo
10:40 pm:
Coffee Break,
120 Vincent Hall
11:10 am:
Robert Bryant,
Duke University
Gradient Kähler-Ricci solitons
Abstract
Preprint
12:10 pm:
Lunch
2:30 pm:
Is Singer,
MIT
The projective Dirac operator and its fractional analytic index
Abstract
Preprint
3:30 pm:
Coffee Break,
120 Vincent Hall
4:00 pm:
Karen Uhlenbeck,
University of Texas
Virasoro Actions on Harmonic Maps
Abstract
6:15 pm:
Wine and appetizer reception
and
7:15 pm
Symposium Banquet
in the
Carlson School Executive Dining Room
Sunday, September 19, 2004
8:15 pm:
Continental Breakfast
120 Vincent Hall
All talks in Vincent Hall 16.
9:30 am:
Paul Seidel,
University of Chicago
Khovanov homology and the symplectic geometry of nilpotent slices
Abstract
Preprint
10:30 am:
Coffee Break,
120 Vincent Hall
11:00 am:
Sheldon Katz,
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Donaldson-Thomas and topological string invariants
Abstract
Preprint
Link to
Main symposium web page
Page maintained by
Bob Gulliver
Last Updated on September 24, 2004