Geometry of Manifolds: October 23 – 27, 2017

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Workshop: Geometry of Manifolds

October 23-27, 2017

Organized by: Xiuxiong Chen, Claude LeBrun, Blaine Lawson, and John Morgan

During the week of October 23-27, 2017, the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics will host a workshop concerning canonical geometric structures on differentiable manifolds. Key researchers in differential geometry, gauge theory, complex geometry, symplectic geometry, and related disciplines will present overviews of their areas of expertise, and report on the current state of research. One lecture each day will be designated as a colloquium-style talk, intended to explain central themes to a broader audience of graduate students and non-experts.

We note with pleasure that Sir Simon Donaldson will turn 60 in 2017. Since Cambridge University will host a conference officially celebrating this event in August, we wish to avoid interfering with those festivities, and so will not describe our workshop as a “birthday conference.” However, it is an honor and a privilege to announce that our conference banquet will nonetheless be dedicated to the celebration of Sir Simon’s birthday, in the broader context of honoring his magnificent contributions to mathematics.

Talk Schedule


Time Title Presenter Location
9:30am John Morgan N/A
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am The Hodge Decomposition for some Non-Kahler Threefolds with Trivial Canonical Bundle Robert Friedman SCGP 102
2:15pm Compact Einstein manifolds with negative curvature Joel Fine SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm A recent update on K\”ahler geometry X. X. Chen SCGP 102


Time Title Presenter Location
9:30am The Taub-Nut Ambitoric Structure Paul Gauduchon SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Singularity formation in geometric flows Simon A. Brendle SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch Break N/A SCGP Cafe
2:00pm Optimal regularity for geometric flows Tobias Colding SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm Codimension one collapse and special holonomy metrics Joint SCGP Workshop Talk/ Geometry/Topology Seminar: Mark Haskins SCGP 102


Time Title Presenter Location
9:30am Conformal gap theorems of $S^4$ and $CP^2$
by Alice Chang (Princeton University)		 Alice Chang SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am K-stability of morphisms Julius Ross SCGP 102
2:15pm An open-closed isomorphism in instanton Floer homology. Dietmar Salamon SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm The stabilized symplectic embedding problem Dusa McDuff SCGp 102


Time Title Presenter Location
9:30am Kaehler-Yang-Mills equations Oscar Garcia-Prada SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Weyl asymptotics for the areas of minimal hypersurfaces Fernando Coda Marques SCGP 102
2:15pm Vafa-Witten invariants for projective surfaces Richard Thomas SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm Simon Donaldson’s Mathematics: A Retrospective Math Colloquium: Peter Kroheimer SCGP 102


Time Title Presenter Location
9:30am Index estimates for Min-max methods Andre Neves SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am On the convergence of Kahler Ricci flow. Bing Wang SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch Break N/A SCGP Cafe
2:15pm “New Calabi-Yau metrics on C^n” Gabor Szekelyhidi SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm The structure of noncollapsed Gromov-Hausdorff limit spaces with Ricci Curvature bounded below. Jeff Cheeger SCGP 102


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