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23rd Annual Geometry Festival

Duke University, Durham, NC
Friday April 25 –– Sunday April 27, 2008

PROGRAM

Friday
12:00– 3:00 Physics Building Lobby Onsite Registration
 3:00– 4:00 Physics 128 Robert Bryant
MSRI and Duke 		Riemannian Submersions as PDE
 4:00– 4:30 Math Department Common Room Tea
 4:30– 5:30 Physics 128 Michael Anderson
SUNY at Stony Brook 		Conformally compact Einstein metrics with prescribed conformal infinity
 5:30– 6:30 Math Department Common Room Wine and Cheese Reception
Saturday
 8:30– 9:30 Math Department Common Room Breakfast and Refreshments
 9:30–10:30 Physics 128 Duong Phong
Columbia University 		Stability and constant scalar curvature
11:00–12:00 Physics 128 Jeff Viaclovsky
University of Wisconsin, Madison 		Orthogonal Complex Structures
12:00– 2:00 Lunch on your own
 2:30– 3:30 Physics 128 Greg Galloway
University of Miami 		Stability of marginally trapped surfaces with applications to black holes
 3:30– 4:30 Math Department Common Room Tea
 4:30– 5:30 Physics 128 John Lott
University of Michigan 		Optimal transport in Riemannian geometry and Ricci flow
 6:00–9:00 Searle Center Banquet Hall Conference Banquet (Reception, 6–7)
Sunday
 8:30– 9:30 Math Department Common Room Breakfast and Refreshments
 9:30–10:30 Physics 128 William Minicozzi
John Hopkins 		The rate of change of width under flows
11:00–12:00 Physics 128 Marcus Khuri
SUNY at Stony Brook 		The Yamabe Problem Revisited
Web page: http://www.math.math.duke.edu/conferences/geomfest08/ Started: Oct 31, 2007. Updated: Mar 19, 2008.
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