Schedule CUNY Geometric Analysis 2008

2008 CUNY Geometric Analysis Conference

Celebrating Józef Dodziuk's 60^th Birthday

February 23-24, 2008

The webpage has links to preprints and a program with abstracts.

Emailed preregistration and ID is required to get past the guards at 365 Fifth Avenue and 34th Street.

All talks are in C198 in the basement. The teas are in the math lounge, 4214.

Saturday Schedule:

10-10:30: Registration outside C198

10:30-10:45: Opening remarks in C198

11:00-12:00: Dennis Sullivan, CUNY Graduate Center and SUNY Stony Brook
"Discretization and Differential Forms"

12:00-2:00: Lunch break

2:00-3:00 pm: Carolyn Gordon, Dartmouth
"Can one hear bi-invariant metrics on compact Lie groups?"

3:15-4:15 pm: Peter Buser and Marc Maintrot, EPF Lausanne
"Colorful Eigenfunctions"

4:15-5:00: Tea in 4214

5:00-6:00: Scott Wilson, University of Minnesota
"Homotopy Algebras in Geometric Analysis"

7:00-9:00: Banquet

Sunday Schedule:
10:00-10:30: Registration outside C198
10:30-11:30: Thomas Schick, Universität Göttingen,
"Atiyah's Question about Integrality of L² Betti Numbers"
11:45-12:45: Jeff Cheeger, Courant Institute, NYU
``Differentiability of Lipschitz maps from metric measure spaces to Banach spaces."
12:45-2:15: Lunch
2:15-2:30: Remarks
2:30-3:30: Andrzej Zuk, Université Paris 7
"Amenable Groups"
3:30-4:00: Tea in 4214
4:00-5:00: Christina Sormani, Lehman College and the CUNY Graduate Center
"A Survey of the Topology of Manifolds with Nonnegative Ricci Curvature"

You must register ahead of time and bring ID to get past the guards!

Webpage: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/conferences/conferences.html