CUNY GR Workshop 2017, July 31-Aug 2, 2017

We are meeting to discuss various collaborative projects together.

The schedule of actual talks will be determined.

Monday July 31

lunch at 1 pm in the cafeteria on the 8th floor

discussions/talks 3-6 pm in math thesis room on the 4th floor

1:00-3:00 pm Lunch

3:00-3:30 pm Christina Sormani "Almost Rigidity of the Positive Mass Theorem"

3:30-4:30 pm Edward Bryden "Working towards the Cylindrically Symmetric Case"

4:30-4:45 pm Discussion of Almost Rigidity of Positive Mass Theorem (Bryden)

4:45-5:45 pm Brian Allen "The Setting with Smooth Inverse Mean Curvature Flow"

Tuesday August 1

lunch at 12 pm in the cafeteria on the 8th floor

discussions/talks 1-6 pm in math thesis room on the 4th floor

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00-2:00 pm Christina Sormani "Almost Rigidity Conjectures for Scalar Curvature"

2:00-2:30 pm Discussion on Various Notions of Convergence (Allen)

2:30-3:30 pm Otis Chodosh "Scalar Curvature Rigidity of Minimal Surfaces"

3:30-4:30 pm Discussion about Scalar Curvature and Almost Rigidity (Chodosh)

4:30-5:30 pm Eric Ling "Cosmological Singularities"

5:30-5:45 pm Discussion of Lorentzian Topics (Ling)

Wednesday August 2

lunch at 12 pm in the cafeteria on the 8th floor

discussions/talks 1-6 pm in math thesis room on the 4th floor

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00-2:00 pm Christina Breiner "CMC Surfaces in Euclidean Space"

2:00-2:30 pm Discussion of CMC Surfaces (Breiner)

2:30-3:30 pm Otis Chodosh "CMC Surfaces in Asym Flat Manifolds with Scalar >0"

3:30-4:00 pm Discussion of CMC Surfaces and Almost Rigidity (Chodosh)

4:00-5:00 pm Sajjad Lakzian "Harmonic Maps into Metric Spaces"

5:00-5:45 pm Closing Discussion

Participants:

Funded in part by Prof Sormani’s NSF grant DMS 1309360