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27th Annual Geometry Festival

Duke University, Durham, NC
Friday April 27 –– Sunday April 29, 2012

PROGRAM

Friday
12:00– 3:00 Physics Building Lobby Onsite Registration
 3:00– 4:00 Physics 128 John Etnyre
Georgia Institute of Technology
 "Surgery and tight contact structures" VIDEO
 4:00– 4:30 Math Department Common Room Tea
 4:30– 5:30 Physics 128 Valentino Tosatti
Columbia University
 		"The evolution of a Hermitian metric by its Chern-Ricci curvature" VIDEO
 5:30– 6:30 Math Department Common Room Wine and Cheese Reception
6:00-- 7:00
 Physics 128
 Carla Cederbaum
Duke University
 "From Newton to Einstein:  A guided tour through space and time" VIDEO
(Open to the general public)
   Saturday
 8:30– 9:30 Math Department Common Room Breakfast and Refreshments
 9:30–10:30 Physics 128 Jan Metzger
Institute for Mathematics,
University of Potsdam 		"On isoperimetric surfaces in asymptotically flat manifolds" VIDEO (good audio after 2 minutes)
11:00–12:00 Physics 128 Fernando Coda Marques
IMPA, Brazil
 		"Min-max theory and the Willmore conjecture" VIDEO
12:00– 2:00
Lunch on your own
 2:30– 3:30 Physics 128 Yanir Rubinstein
Stanford University 		"Einstein metrics on Kahler manifolds" VIDEO
 3:30– 4:30 Math Department Common Room Tea
 4:30– 5:30 Physics 128 Simon Brendle
Stanford University 		"Rotational symmetry of self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow" VIDEO
 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 Mu-Tao Wang
Columbia University
 		"A variational problem for isometric embeddings and its applications in general relativity" VIDEO
11:00–12:00 Physics 128 Gordana Matic
University of Georgia
 		"Contact invariant in Sutured Floer Homology and fillability" VIDEO
Web page: http://www.math.math.duke.edu/conferences/geomfest08/ Started: Oct 31, 2007. Updated: Mar 19, 2008.
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