Geometric Analysis Seminar

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota


SPRING 2004  
Organizer: Conan Nai-Chung Leung
Time: Thursdays  2:20 p.m.
Place: Vincent Hall 570.

UPDATED GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR

 
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
January 29 Jae-Hyouk Lee
(University of Minnesota)
"Branes for Manifolds with Vector Cross-Products"
February 5 Jiaping Wang
(University of Minnesota)
"Function Theory and Group Action"
February 12 will not meet this week  
February 19 Robert Gulliver
(University of Minnesota)
"Regularity of Soap Film-Like surfaces and Total Curvature of Graphs"
Abstract
February 26 TBA "tba"



FALL 2003  
Organizer: Tian-Jun Li
Time: Thursdays  2:20 p.m.

Place: Vincent Hall 313.
 

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
September 11 Mike Cocos
(University of Minnesota)
"The L2 cohomology of negatively curved (simply connected) manifolds"
September 18 Hao Fang
(Courant Institute, NYU)
"BCOV torsion on Calabi-Yau moduli"
September 25 Ron Fintushel
(Michigan State)
"Lagrangian tori in 4-manifolds"
October 2 Heayong Shin
(Chung-Ang University, visiting Minn.)
"Singularities of a Minimizing Harmonic Map in Low Dimensions"
October 9 Chris Beasley
(Princeton)
"Residues and Supersymmetry"
October 16 Zhiqi Lu
(Univ. California at Irvine)
"The log term of the Szegö kernel"
October 30 Blake Boursaw
(University of Minnesota)
"Indecomposability of Equivalence Relations Generated by Convergence Groups"
November 6 Andras Stipcisz
(Rényi Inst. of Math., Hungary)
"Heegaard Floer theory and contact surgery"
Abstract
November 20 Peter Strom
(Univ. of Chicago)
"Convex submanifolds of hyperbolic space, Sierpinski carpets, and minimal volume."
December 11 Yanyan Li
Rutgers University
"Compactness of solutions to the Yamabe problem"



SUMMER 2003  

Organizer: Bob Gulliver
Time: Thursdays  11:00 a.m.

Place: Vincent Hall 570.

 

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
July 24 Robert Gulliver
(University of Minnesota)
"Minimizing-Lagrangian surfaces in R4" (after Schoen and Wolfson JDG 58, 1-86)
Abstract
July 31 Robert Gulliver
(University of Minnesota)
"Minimizing-Lagrangian cones in R4" (after Schoen and Wolfson)
Abstract
August 7 Jiaping Wang
(University of Minnesota)
"Monotonicity for weakly minimal-Lagrangian surfaces" (after Schoen and Wolfson)
Abstract
August 21 Scott Baldridge
(Indiana University)
"Circle actions on 4--manifolds and symplectic topology"




SPRING 2003  
Organizer: Bob Gulliver
Time: Thursday  2:20 p.m.

Place: Vincent Hall 570.

 

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
January 30 Jiaping Wang
(University of Minnesota)
"Manifolds with positive spectrum"
February 6 Robert Gulliver
(University of Minnesota)
"Mean curvature flow of entire graphs in Euclidean space (after Ecker- Huisken)"
February 13 Robert Gulliver
(University of Minnesota)
"Mean curvature flow of entire graphs in Euclidean space (cont.)"
February 27 Scot Adams
(University of Minnesota)
"Kazhdan groups acting on Lorentz manifolds (after R. Zimmer)"
March 27 Jaigyoung Choe
(Seoul National University)
"Relative isoperimetric inequality: an extension of the classical isoperimetric inequality"
Abstract
April 10 Shu-Yu Hsu
(University of Minnesota)
"Removable singularities and some new solutions for the Ricci flow equation"
April 17 Jeff Brock
(University of Chicago)
"The classification problem for hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
May 1 Scot Adams
(University of Minnesota)
"The Lax conjecture is true (after A. Lewis, P. Parrila and M. Ramana)"
Slides from talk
May 8 Jiaping Wang
(University of Minnesota)
"The number of disjoint minimal graphs over an unbounded domain"
June 5 Blake Boursaw
(University of Minnesota)
"Commensurator Superrigidity for Convergence Group Actions"
Abstract




FALL 2002  
Organizer: Tian-Jun Li
Time: Thursday  2:20 p.m.

Place: Vincent Hall 6.

 
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
September 12 Conan Leung
(University of Minnesota)
"Riemannian Geometry over different normed division algebras"
September 19 John McCuan
(Georgia Inst. Tech)
"Pseudo-regularity for convex subsolutions in two dimensions"
September 26 Huai-Dong Cao
(IPAM and Texas A & M)
"Singular models and dimension reduction for the Kaehler-Ricci flow"
October 3 (no meeting)  
October 10 Shu-Yu Hsu
(University of Minnesota)
"Some new results for the Ricci flow equation"
October 17 Conan Leung
(University of Minnesota)
"Riemannian geometry over different normed algebras II"
October 24 Yong-Geun Oh
(University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Chain Level Floer theory and Hamiltonian diffeomorphism groups"
October 31 Simon Morgan
(University of Minnesota)
"Bubbling and dimension collapsing phenomena in harmonic maps and varifolds"
November 8 Lizhen Ji
(University of Michigan)
"Compactifications of symmetric and locally symmetric spaces"
November 14 Claude Lebrun
(SUNY - Stony Brook)
"Einstein metrics and differential topology"
November 21 Feng Luo
(Rutgers University)
"2-dimensional combinatorial Ricci flows"
November 28 (Thanksgiving holiday)

December 5 Tian-Jun Li
(University of Minnesota)
"The Kodaira dimension of a symplectic 4-manifold"
December 12 (no meeting)

Seminars in the School of Mathematics.
e-mail: gulliver@math.umn.edu