Differential Geometry Seminar
Spring 2001
The seminar met on
Wednesdays 2:45-3:45. It was organized by
Christina Sormani.
Schedule, Spring 2001
- Feb 7
John Loftin, Columbia University,
"Riemannian metrics on projectively flat manifolds"
- Feb 14
Harold Donnelly, Institute for Advanced Study,
"Harmonic functions on manifolds of non-negative
Ricci curvature."
- Feb 21
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, C.U.N.Y.
"Ricci curvature, limit spaces and universal covers."
- Feb 28
Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University
"Positive Pinching and Injectivity Radius"
- March 7
Jozef Dodziuk, Queens College, C.U.N.Y.,
"L^2-invariants of amenable coverings"
- March 14
Yu Ding, Courant Institute, N.Y.U.
"Asymptotic formulas for heat kernels and Green's functions"
- March 21
Maria Psarelli, Bronx Community College, C.U.N.Y.
"Maxwell-Klein-Gordon Equations in 4-dimensional Minkowski Space"
- March 28
Norbert Peyerimhoff, Universitat Bochum
``The integrated density of states for random Schroedinger operators on
manifolds''
- April 4
Edgar Feldman, Grad. Center, C.U.N.Y.
"Spin conformal lower bounds for Dirac eigenvalues"
- April 11
Spring Break
no meeting this week
- April 18
Zoltan Szabo, Lehman College, C.U.N.Y.
"Isospectral pairs of metrics on balls,
spheres, and other manifolds with different local geometries"
- April 25
John Velling, Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y.
"Quadratic differentials and minimal surfaces in hyperbolic space"