Previous schedule for
Geometry Analysis Seminars



SPRING 1999
Time: Friday 3:35pm Place: VH 211
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
4/16 N. Kapouleas (Brown) Desingularizing the intersection of minimal surfaces 
in three-dimensional Riemannian manifolds
4/23 D.  Schwalbe and S. Wagon (Macalester College)  Invisible Handshake: Sculpting a Giant Costa Surface
4/30 A. Freire (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville) Compactness and global existence for wave maps.
5/7 S. Adams (UMN) Orbit nonproper dynamics on Lorentz manifolds
5/14 F.H. Lin (Courant Institute)  Analysis aspects of harmonic maps, II
5/21 K. Corlette (University of Chicago) Infinitely many harmonic maps between spheres
5/28 T. Graber (Harvard) Gromov-Witten theory for hyperelliptic curves



WINTER 1999
Time: Friday 3:35pm Place: VH 211
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
1/8 M. Fels (Utah State) The Palais condition
1/29 S. Adams More on superrigidity and arithmeticity
2/5 E. Zaslow (Northwestern) Local Mirror Symmetry
2/12 Z.Q. Lu (Columbia Univ) On the lower order terms of 
the asymptotic expansion of Zelditch
3/5 T. Morimoto (Kyoto Univ of Education) Geometry of Monge-Ampere Equations
3/12 N.C. Leung (UMN) Differential geometric aspects of Calabi-Yau manifolds


FALL 1998



SPRING 1998
Time: Friday 3:35pm Place: VH 211
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
4/10 G. Tian (MIT) Yang-Mills equation and Minimal Submanifolds, I
4/14  G. Tian (MIT) Yang-Mills equation and Minimal Submanifolds, II
4/17  T. Jorgensen (Columbia University) Punctured torus bundles
4/21 G. Tian (MIT) Yang-Mills equation and Minimal Submanifolds, III
4/24 G. Tian (MIT) Yang-Mills equation and Minimal Submanifolds, IV
4/24 J.Y. Li (MIT) Chern-Simons Higgs model and Kazdan-Warner problem
4/28 G. Tian (MIT) Yang-Mills equation and Minimal Submanifolds, V
5/08  R. Palais (Brandeis University) T.B.A.
5/15  M. Loss (Georgia Inst. of Technology) T.B.A.
5/22 N.C. Leung (UMN) Counting curves with tangency condition
Algebraic Geometry Seminars:
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
5/4 B. Hassett (University of Chicago) Rational cubic fourfold
5/26 R. Vakil (Princeton University) Characteristic numbers of elliptic plane curves


WINTER 1998
Time: Friday 3:35pm Place: VH 211
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
1/23  I. Roussos (Hamline University)
2/6  N. C. Leung (UMN)
2/13  Koo (UMN)
2/20  B. Gulliver (UMN)
2/27  P. Lu (UMN)
3/6  J. Bryan (UC Berkeley)
3/13  S. Adams (UMN)


FALL 1997
Time: Friday 3:35pm Place: VH 211
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
10/10  N.C. Leung. (UMN) Yau-Zaslow formula: Counting rational curves on K3 surfaces
10/17 P. Lu (UMN) Special Lagrangian in Kummer Calabi-Yau threefold
10/31  S. Adams (UMN) Dynamics on Lorentz manifolds
11/14 N.C. Leung (UMN) Analytic torsion, I
11/21 S.K. Yi (UMN) Analytic torsion, II


SPRING 1997
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
4/11 A.Marden, (UMN) Hyperbolizing 3-mfd I: A survey
4/18  R.Wentworth, (UCI) YM flows near the bdy of the Teimuller Space
4/25  A.Marden, (UMN) Hyperbolizing 3-mfd II: Deforming surfaces
5/2  A.Marden, (UMN) Hyperbolizing 3-mfd III: Hyperbolic gluing
5/9  N.C.Leung, (UMN) Non-Abelian Seiberg Witten equations
5/16  B.Lian, (Brandeis Univ.) Mirror symmetry and the large radius limit problem
5/23  P.Lu, (UMN) Degeneration of Kahler-Einstein
5/30  I.Rivin, (Univ. of Warwick & CIT) Combinatorial mean and scalar curvature- Schlafi differential formula and some applications



WINTER 1997
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
1/24  J. Sullivan (UMN) Thick Knots and Twisted Pairs
2/7  G.Maribeff (Univ. of Wisconsin) Projectively Invariant Differential Evolutions and the Second KdV Hamiltonian Structure
2/14  M. Heiko(Bonn) Elastic Knots in Euclidean Three-Space
2/28  Tom Ilmanel  The -1/H flow & Hawking Penrose conjecture II
3/7  S.Adams (UMN) Dynamics on Lorentzian manifold
3/14  S.Adams (UMN) More on dynamics on Lorentzian manifold
 

FALL 1996


SPRING 1996
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
4/2 J. Sullivan (UMN) The Minimax sphere eversion.
4/12 S. Adams (UMN) The E. Hopf conjecture: The ellipsoid criterion
4/19 S. Adams (UMN) The E. Hopf conjecture: The visual map
4/26 N.C. Leung (UMN) Hermitian Einstein metric on vector bundles
5/3 R. Kusner (U. Mass Amherst) Moduli spaces of embedded CMC surfaces with few ends
5/10 R. Kusner (U. Mass Amherst) Natural Lagrangian and symplectic structures for 
embedded CMC moduli spaces
5/17 B. Chow (UMN) TBA
5/24 N. Schmitt TBA
5/31 G. Huisken (University of Turbingen) TBA


WINTER 1996
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
1/19 N.C. Leung (UMN) Foliations and Godbillon-Vey invariants
1/26 S. Adams (UMN) The E.Hopf Conjecture: Construction of Rational Vector Fields
2/2 B. Chow (UMN) Constrained and Linear Harnack Inequalities for Geometric Evolution Equations
2/9 R. Gulliver (UMN) The Aleksandrov reflection principle for certain self-intersecting hypersurfaces
2/16 K. Corlette (University of Chicago) Superrigidity for Rank one groups
2/20 K. Corlette (University of Chicago) Non-Abelian Hodge theory, I
2/23 K. Corlette (University of Chicago) Hausdorff dimensions of limit sets
2/27 K. Corlette (University of Chicago) Non-Abelian Hodge theory, I
3/1 S. Adams (UMN) The E.Hopf Conjecture: Boundary theory for periodic metrics
3/5 K. Corlette (University of Chicago) Non-Abelian Hodge theory, I
3/7 K. Corlette (University of Chicago) Non-Abelian Hodge theory, I
3/8 J. Sullivan (UMN) TBA



FALL 1995


SPRING 1995


WINTER 1995


FALL 1994