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Christina Sormani's Invited Talks

• MSRI Program on Optimal Transportation: Geometry and Dynamics, Fall 2013
  Introductory Lecture on"Convergence of manifolds and metric measure spaces" [VIDEO]
• 24th Geometry Festival, Stony Brook 2009
  "The Intrinsic Flat Distance between Riemannian Manifolds" [VIDEO]

• Geometric Analysis and Relativity at USTC, Hefei, China
  ``Applications of the convergence of manifolds to problems arising in general relativity''
• Columbia University (4/25/2014)
  "Intrinsic flat convergence and continuity of the Hawking mass"
• Rutgers University (4/15/2014)
  "Compactness of sequences of manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and bounded Hawking mass"
• City College (4/7/2014)
  "Spacelike manifolds with bounded Hawking mass"

• Workshop on Infinite-Dimensional Geometry, UC Berkeley (December 7-8, 2013)
  "Intrinsic Flat Metric and PreCompactness of Spaces of Riemannian Manifolds (slides)
• Stony Brook Geometry Seminar (Nov 26 or Dec 3, 2013)
  "Applications of the Intrinsic Flat Convergence of Riemannian Manifolds"
• MSRI Evans Lecture (Nov 4, 2013)
  ``A Compactness Theorem for Sequences of Rectifiable Metric Spaces''
• Stanford Geometry Seminar (October 21, 2013)
  "The Intrinsic Flat Distance and Open Questions Concerning Almost Rigidity of Riemannian Manifolds"
• MSRI Program on Optimal Transportation: Geometry and Dynamics, (August 22-23, 2013)
  Introductory Lecture on"Convergence of manifolds and metric measure spaces" [VIDEO]
• ICMS Ricci Curvature Workshop, Edinburgh, Invited Lecturer (July 1-12, 2013)
  "Comparison Geometry with Ricci Bounds through Gromov-Hausdorff Convergence" (3-4 lectures, webpage)
• Lehigh Geometry and Topology Conference, session speaker, (May 24-26, 2013)
  "The Sliced Filling Volume and new Compactness Theorems for Sequences of Riemannian manifolds."
• Rice University, Seminar Speaker (April 18, 2013)
  "Intrinsic Flat Convergence and Integral Current Spaces"
• U Penn, Differential Geometry Seminar and followup seminar (March 21-22, 2013)
  "Intrinsic Flat Convergence and Smooth Convergence away from Singular Sets"
• Urbana Champaign, Seminar Speaker (March 12, 2013)
  "Integral Current spaces, Sliced Filling Volumes and the Tetrahedral Property"
• UC San Diego, Seminar Speaker (January 8, 2013)
  "The Tetrahedral Property and Intrinsic Flat Convergence"

• Alexandrov Centenary Geometry Meeting, Euler International Mathematics Institute
  and Steklov St. Petersburg, invited speaker (August 20-24, 2012)
  "Applications of the Intrinsic Flat Distance between Riemannian Manifolds" (invited but unable to obtain visa) presentation
• Oberwolfach: Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity, invited speaker (July 29 - August 4, 2012)
  "The Intrinsic flat convergence as a means of defining weak convergence of manifolds" (report)
• Lehigh Geometry and Topology Conference Contributed Talk (May 26, 2012)
  "Properties of Intrinsic Flat Convergence" (blackboard) (preprints)
• Midwest Geometry Conference Plenary Address (May 12-13, 2012)
  "The Positive Mass Theorem, the Penrose Inequality and the Intrinsic Flat Distance" (preprints)
• Rutgers Camden EWIS Seminar (March 30, 2012)
  "Converging Spaces" (a general audience talk)
• MIT Geometric Analysis Seminar, (February 15, 2012)
  "Properties of the Intrinsic Flat Convergence" (blackboard)
• Joint Mathematics Meeting, MAA Invited Paper Session on Decoding Geometry, (January 5, 2012)
  "Distances between Riemannian Manifolds"

• University of Vienna, Gravitational Physics Seminar (October 13, 2011)
  "The Stability of the Riemannian Positive Mass Theorem and the Intrinsic Flat Distance"
• ETH Zurich Analysis Seminar (October 11, 2011)
  "Near Equality in the Riemannian Positive Mass Theorem and the Penrose Inequality"
• Oberwolfach: Partial Differential Equations Workshop (August 11, 2011) invited speaker
  "Intrinsic Flat Convergence and Stability of the Positive Mass Theorem"
• Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar, University of Washington in Seattle, (May 7-8, 2011)
  "The Positive Mass Theorem, the Penrose Inequality and the Intrinsic Flat Distance" (presentation)
• Stony Brook Geometry/Topology Seminar (April 12, 2011)
  ``Estimating the Intrinsic Flat Distance" (blackboard)
• MIT Geometric Analysis Seminar, (March 2011)
  "Intrinsic Flat Convergence of Riemannian Manifolds and Integral Current Spaces"
• Harvard University Differential Geometry Seminar, (March 2011)
  "Applications of Intrinsic Flat Convergence" (blackboard)
  
• Dartmouth University Geometry and Topology Seminar, (February 2011)
  "Applications of Intrinsic Flat Convergence" (blackboard)
• MIT D.W.Weeks Lecture, (February 2011)
  "An Almost Isotropic Universe" (blackboard)

• UC Santa Barbara, Differential Geometry Seminar (October 8, 2010)
  "Intrinsic Flat Convergence of Riemannian Manifolds and Integral Current Spaces"
• Global Geometric Analysis, AMS Western Sectional Special Session, UCLA, (October 9-10, 2010).
  "Intrinsic Flat Distance between Riemannian Manifolds with Boundary"
• Interactions between Geometry and Analysis, Notre Dame University, (October 21-24, 2010).
  "Intrinsic Flat Convergence of Riemannian Manifolds and Integral Current Spaces"
• Columbia University, Geometric Analysis Seminar (February 12, 2009),
  "A new convergence for oriented Riemannian manifolds with boundary" (see webpage)
• Harvard University, Differential Geometry Seminar (February 17, 2009),
  "Intrinsic flat convergence of Riemannian manifolds" (see webpage)
• Dartmouth University, Geometry and Topology Seminar (February 19, 2009),
  "The intrinsic flat distance between Riemannian manifolds" (see webpage)
• Dartmouth University, Colloquium (February 19, 2009),
  "Distances between Riemannian Manifolds and Metric Spaces"
• AMS Meeting Special Session Urbana Champagne (March 27-29, 2009),
  "A new distance between Riemannian manifolds"
• Twenty-Fourth Annual Geometry Festival, (April 17-19, 2009), SUNY Stony Brook
  "The Intrinsic Flat Distance between Riemannian Manifolds"(see webpage)
• NYU Poly, Colloquium (April 23, 2009)
  "On the Hamilton-Perelman proof of the Poincare Conjecture", a Poincare talk,
• Workshop on Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Geometry, (August 8-9, 2009), IUPUI, Indianapolis,
  The Intrinsic flat distance between oriented Riemannian manifolds (see webpage)
• Johns Hopkins University (October 12, 2009)
  "The Intrinsic flat distance between oriented Riemannian manifolds" (see webpage)
• University of Pennsylvania (November 12, 2009)
  "The Intrinsic flat distance between oriented Riemannian manifolds" (see webpage)
• Rutgers University (December 1, 2009)
  "The Intrinsic flat distance between oriented Riemannian manifolds" (see webpage)
• University of Arizona Math Colloquium and Seminar, (Jan 24-5, 2008)
• Southeast Geometry Conference, University of South Carolina (March 14-15, 2008)
  Plenary: Understanding the Topology of Manifolds with Nonnegative Ricci Curvature.
• UNAM Workshop in Global Riemannian Geometry, (May 12-18, 2008),
• Seminaire Borel: New Approaches to Curvature Summer School, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (August 24-30, 2008),
  Minicourse on the Covering Spectrum
• Brown University, Xtreme Geometry seminar (Thursday, March 1, 2007)
  a covering spectrum talk
• University of Connecticut, Geometry Seminar (Tuesday, March 13, 2007)
  a covering spectrum talk
• Texas Geometry and Topology Conference (March 23-25, 2007)
  Various Covering Spectra and Shift Spectra,
• Tufts University Colloquium, (Friday, March 30, 2007)
  a Poincare Conjecture talk
• NYU Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar (Friday, April 6, 2007),
  a covering spectrum talk, related preprint
• U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Differential Geometry Seminar (Thursday, April 12, 2007)
  Almost Isotropy.
• Bloomington Geometry Workshop (April 13-15, 2007)
  Cut-off Covering Spectra and Gromov-Hausdorff Convergence, related preprint
• Midwest Geometry Conference (Spring 2006),
  Topology and Ricci Curvature
• Princeton University Geometric Analysis Seminar (Spring 2006),
  Friedmann cosmology
• Semi-Annual Workshop in Dynamical Systems and Related Topics (Fall 2006),
  Topology and Ricci Curvature
• Cornell University Analysis Seminar (Fall 2006),
  Topology and Ricci Curvature

Homepage: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani