Differential Geometry Seminar

For more information about the seminar, or to add a name to the seminar mailing list, contact Christina Sormani at sormani@comet.lehman.cuny.edu.

Schedule, Fall 2001

• August 29 First week of classes
  no meeting
  
  
• Sept 5: Kris Tapp, SUNY Stony Brook
  Conditions for nonnegative curvature on bundles
  
  
• Sept 12: Carolyn Gordon, Dartmouth, (Cancelled)
  Isospectral Riemannian manifolds with different local geometry
  
  
• Sept 19: Second day of Rosh Hashanah
  no classes at CUNY
  
  
• Sept 26: Yom Kippur Eve
  no classes at CUNY
  
  
• Oct 3: Penny Smith, Lehigh University
  Geometry of Foliations and Mass Minimizing Cartesian Currents.
  
  
• Oct 10: Claude LeBrun, SUNY Stony Brook
  "Spin Manifolds, Einstein metrics, and Differential Topology"
  
  
• Oct 17: Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
  The topology and conformal theory of the CMC moduli space
  
  
• Oct 24: Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY
  Ricci Curvature and its effect on topology
  
  
• Oct 31: Jeffrey McGowan, Central Connecticut State University
  Counting closed geodesics in homology classes
  
  
• Nov 7: Regina Rotman, Courant Institute
  Estimating the length of a shortest closed geodesic on a simply connected manifold
  
  
• Nov 14: John Velling, Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y.
  Geometric Foliations and Degeneration
  
  
• Nov 21: Joel Spruck, Johns Hopkins University
  Two Dimensional Minimal Graphs over Unbounded Domains
  
  
• Nov 28: Tobias Colding, Courant Institute
  Embedded minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds
  
  
• Dec 5: Megan Kerr, Wellesley College
  Quaternionic hyperbolic space and nearby negatively curved homogeneous Einstein manifolds