| 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 |