Special Session on Ricci Curvature and Related Topics

Hoboken, NJ, April 28-29, 2001

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I. Saturday Morning:

9:00-9:20 am: Zhongmin Shen, Indiana Univ. Purdue Univ in Indianapolis, zshen@math.iupui.edu
"Geodesics and Ricci Curvature"
9:30-9:50 am: Albert Chau, Columbia Univ., chau@math.columbia.edu
"The Ricci Flow on non compact manifolds"
10:00-10:20 am: Mingliang Cai, University of Miami, mcai@math.miami.edu
"Boundaries of zero scalar curvature in the AdS/CFT Correspondence"
with Greg Galloway
10:30-10:50 am: Tedi Draghici, Florida International University, draghici@fiu.edu
"A splitting theorem for K\"ahler manifolds with constant eigenvalues of the Ricci tensor",
with V. Apostolov and A. Moroianu

II. Saturday Afternoon:

2:30-2:50 pm: Igor Rivin, Temple Univ., rivin@math.temple.edu
"Ricci and Mean curvature -- from combinatorial to smooth"
with Jean-Marc Schlenker, schlenker@picard.ups-tlse.fr
3:00-3:20 pm: Simone Gutt, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) sgutt@ulb.ac.be
"Symplectic connections of Ricci-type",
3:30-3:50 pm: Discussion
4:00-4:20 pm: Nina Zipser, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, zipser@math.mit.edu
"Solutions for the Maxwell-Einstein equations"
4:30-4:50 pm: Paul Yang, Univ. of Southern California, yang@math.princeton.edu
"Conformally invariant equations and the curvature tensor on 4-manifolds."

III. Sunday Morning:

9:00-9:20 am: Carolyn Gordon, Dartmouth Univ., Carolyn.S.Gordon@Dartmouth.EDU
"Isospectral metrics on spheres and other manifolds",
9:30-9:50 am: Kris Tapp, S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, ktapp@math.sunysb.edu
"Conditions for nonnegative curvature on vector bundles and sphere bundles"
10:00-10:20 am: Igor Belegradek , California Institute of Technology, ibeleg@its.caltech.edu
"Metrics of positive Ricci curvature on vector bundles over nilmanifolds"
10:30-10:50 am: Andreas Kollross, Universitaet Augsburg, kollross@math.uni-augsburg.de
"Polar actions"

IV. Sunday Afternoon:

2:30-2:50 pm: Charles P. Boyer , Univ. of New Mexico, cboyer@math.unm.edu
"Sasakian-Einstein Geometry and Algebraic Geometry"
3:00-3:20 pm: Isabel M. C. Salavessa, Instituto Superior Tecnico (Portugal), isabel@cartan.ist.utl.pt
"Minimal submanifolds of Kahler-Einstein manifolds"
3:30-3:50 pm: John Loftin, Columbia Univ., loftin@math.columbia.edu
"Affine Spheres and K\"ahler-Einstein Metrics"
4:00-4:20 pm: Claude LeBrun, S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, claude@math.sunysb.edu
"Ricci Curvature and Seiberg-Witten Theory"

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