Representations of Riemannian Geometry

10-13 August, 2017

St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA

A celebration of the 65th birthday of Wolfgang Ziller

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Program

The program may be found below. In particular, the relatively late start on Friday, Saturday and Sunday is due to local transit schedules and intended to accommodate those participants staying in Center City. The conference will end at lunchtime on Sunday.

Thursday, 10 Aug	Friday, 11 Aug	Saturday, 12 Aug	Sunday, 13 Aug
	09:00 - 09:45 Registration
09:45 - 10:45 Burkhard Wilking (Münster) The topology of fixed point components in positive curvature	09:45 - 10:25 Anusha Krishnan (UPenn) Cohomogeneity one Ricci flow and non negative curvature	09:45 - 10:45 Marco Radeschi (Notre Dame) Minimal Hypersurfaces in compact symmetric spaces
Short Break
10:00 - 11:00 Registration	Coffee Break	10:40 - 11:20 Ian Adelstein (Yale) A characterization of round spheres in terms of half-geodesics	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Nancy Hingston (New Jersey) Closed Geodesics Alber to Ziller	11:30 - 12:30 Heather Macbeth (MIT) Kahler-Ricci solitons on crepant resolutions	Coffee Break	11:30 - 12:30 Carolyn Gordon (Dartmouth) Symmetry properties of homogeneous Einstein and Ricci soliton metrics
11:50 - 12:30 Thomas Brooks (UPenn) 3-Manifolds with Constant Ricci Eigenvalues λ, λ, 0
Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Karsten Grove (Notre Dame) Non-negative curvature: A status report and future peek	14:30 - 15:30 Catherine Searle (Wichita State) The maximal symmetry rank conjecture for non-negatively curved manifolds	14:30 - 15:30 Anna Siffert (MPI Bonn) Existence of metrics maximizing the first eigenvalue on closed surfaces
Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:45 Megan Kerr (Wellesley) An introduction to Homogeneous Einstein Manifolds	16:30 - 17:30 Luis Florit (IMPA) Manifolds with conullity at most two as graph manifolds	16:30 - 17:30 Stephanie Alexander (UIUC) Spacetime analogues of Riemannian comparisons in curvature bounded below

Thursday, 10 Aug

Friday, 11 Aug

Saturday, 12 Aug

Sunday, 13 Aug

09:00 - 09:45
Registration

09:45 - 10:45
Burkhard Wilking
(Münster)
The topology of fixed point components in positive curvature

09:45 - 10:25
Anusha Krishnan
(UPenn)
Cohomogeneity one Ricci flow and non negative curvature

09:45 - 10:45
Marco Radeschi
(Notre Dame)
Minimal Hypersurfaces in compact symmetric spaces

Short Break

10:00 - 11:00
Registration

Coffee Break

10:40 - 11:20
Ian Adelstein
(Yale)
A characterization of round spheres in terms of half-geodesics

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30
Nancy Hingston
(New Jersey)
Closed Geodesics Alber to Ziller

11:30 - 12:30
Heather Macbeth
(MIT)
Kahler-Ricci solitons on crepant resolutions

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30
Carolyn Gordon
(Dartmouth)
Symmetry properties of homogeneous Einstein and Ricci soliton metrics

11:50 - 12:30
Thomas Brooks
(UPenn)
3-Manifolds with Constant Ricci Eigenvalues λ, λ, 0

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30
Karsten Grove
(Notre Dame)
Non-negative curvature: A status report and future peek

14:30 - 15:30
Catherine Searle
(Wichita State)
The maximal symmetry rank conjecture for non-negatively curved manifolds

14:30 - 15:30
Anna Siffert
(MPI Bonn)
Existence of metrics maximizing the first eigenvalue on closed surfaces

Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:45
Megan Kerr
(Wellesley)
An introduction to Homogeneous Einstein Manifolds

16:30 - 17:30
Luis Florit
(IMPA)
Manifolds with conullity at most two as graph manifolds

16:30 - 17:30
Stephanie Alexander
(UIUC)
Spacetime analogues of Riemannian comparisons in curvature bounded below

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