Feldman Retirement Conf Schedule

Geometric Analysis and its Applications:

A Conference in Honor of Edgar Feldman

Schedule of Saturday Lectures (all in Room 4102):
(Registration, tea and coffee in Room 4214: 10am-6pm)

10:00 Registration Begins (Room 4214) (fourth floor)
10:15-11:40 Selected Contributed Papers: (Room 4102)

10:15-10:40 Mohammed Ghomi Immersions and Embeddings with Curvature Constraints
10:45-11:10 Regina Rotman The length of a shortest closed geodesic and the area of a minimal surface
11:15-11:40 Kris Tapp Examples of quasi-positive curvature

12:00-12:45 Plenary Talk (Room 4102):
12:45-1:45 Lunch Break (many restaurants within a couple blocks)
1:45-3:10 Contributed Papers by Feldman's Students (Room 4102):

1:45-2:10 Allen Gorin Semantic Information Processing of Spoken Language: How may I help you?
2:15-2:40 Cristina Abreu-Suzuki Distance Manipulators
2:45-3:10 Lucio Prado Kelvin-Nevanlinna-Royden Criterion

3:30-4:15 Plenary Talk (Room 4102):
4:30-6:00 Selected Contributed Papers (Room 4214):

4:30-4:55 Fabiana Cardetti Local controllability on SL(2,R)
5:00-5:25 Leonid Srubshchik The Energy Saddle Points and Dynamic Snap-Through of Thin Elastic Shells
5:30-6:00 Evans Harrell Eigenvalue gaps and mean curvature for Schrodinger operators on immersed manifolds.

Schedule of Sunday Lectures (all in Room 4102):
(Registration, tea and coffee in Room 4214 starting at noon)

12:00-12:30 Isaac Chavel Welcome and Survey of Edgar Feldman's Work
12:45--1:30 Plenary Talk: Mark Hillery Quantum walks on graphs: work with Edgar Feldman and Janos Bergou
1:45-2:30 Plenary Talk: Jeff Cheeger Collapsing and noncollapsing of Einstein $4$-manifolds
Forty-five minute tea break in the Math Lounge
3:30-4:15 Plenary Talk: Dennis Sullivan Algebraic topology of the space of closed curves in a manifold.
4:30-5:00 Jenny Harrison Discrete Exterior Calculus with Convergence to the Smooth Continuum
5:15-6:00 Plenary Talk: Alexander Grigor'yan Heat kernels and function theory on fractal-like metric spaces