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Special Geometry Festival


Program

    Check-in will take place in Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street outside Room 109.  All subsequent talks will be given in Room 109.

Schedule 
Day   Time Event
Friday   1:00 - 3:00 Registration
    3:00 - 4:00 The Hypoelliptic Laplacian on the Cotangent Bundle
Jean-Michel Bismut
Universite Paris-Sud
    4:00 - 4:30 Afternoon Break
    4:30 - 5:30 Local splitting structures on nonpositively curved manifolds
Xiaochun Rong
Rutgers University
    5:30 - 7:00 Opening/Welcome Reception13th Floor Lounge
Saturday   8:00 - 9:30 Breakfast
    9:30 - 10:30 Projective Hulls and the Projective Gelfand Transformation
Blaine Lawson
SUNY-Stony Brook
  10:30 - 11:00 Morning Break
  11:00 - 12:00 Applications of J-holomorphic Curves
Dusa McDuff
SUNY-Stony Brook
  12:00 - 2:30 Lunch
    2:30 - 3:30 Positive Loops of Contact Transformations
Yasha Eliashberg
Stanford
    3:30 - 4:00 Afternoon Break
    4:00 - 5:00 Algebraic topology in string backgrounds
Dennis Sullivan
CUNY & SUNY-Stony Brook
    5:15 - 6:00 Discussion of Open Problems
    7:00 - 10:00 Banquet - Torch Club
Sunday   8:00 - 9:30 Breakfast
    9:30 - 10:30 Extremal Metrics and Holomorphic Discs
Gang Tian
Princeton & MIT
  10:30 - 11:00 Morning Break
  11:00 - 12:00 Gauge Theory Scattering From Curves In CP^3
Edward Witten
Institute for Advanced Study