Schedule and abstracts

Friday, October 14

9:00-10:45 - Registration

11:00-12:00 - Vincent Borrelli (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) Hyperbolic Planes in E^3 and their Limit Sets

12:00-2:00 - Lunch break

2:00-3:00 - Frank Morgan (Williams College) Isoperimetric Theorems from David Johnson until now

3:00-3:30 - Break

3:30-4:00 - Oscar Perdomo (Central Connecticuit State University) Spectrum of the Laplacian and Stability Operator for CMC Hypersurfaces with two Principal Curvatures on the Spheres

4:00-4:30 - Break

4:30-5:30 - Christinia Sormani (CUNYGC and Lehman College) Thoughts on Spacetime Intrinsic Flat Convergence

Saturday, October 15

8:00-9:00 - Breakfast

9:00-10:00 - Shing-Tung Yau (Tsinghua University, Beijing; Remote via Zoom) Complete Noncompact Calabi-Yau Manifolds

10:00-10:20 - Tea Break

10:20-10:50 - Yury Ustinovsky (Lehigh University) On Geometry of Steady Toric Kähler-Ricci Solitons

10:50-11:10 - Break

11:10-12:10 - Penny Smith (Lehigh University) Quantum Geometry and Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity (Part II)

12:10-2:00 - Lunch Break

2:00-3:00 - Herman Gluck (University of Pennsylvania) Homotopy Type of Spaces of Fibrations

3:00-3:30 - Break & Group Photo

3:30-4:00 - Ernani Ribeiro Jr. (Universidade Federal do Ceará) On Euler Characteristic and Hitchin-Thorpe Inequality for Four-dimensional Compact Ricci Solitons

4:00-4:30 - Break

4:30-5:30 - Claude LeBrun (Stony Brook) Geometry of 4-Manifolds: Curvature in the Balance (slides)

6:00-7:00 - Reception (3rd floor of the Clayton University Center)

7:00-8:00 - Banquet (3rd floor of the Clayton University Center)

Sunday, October 16

8:30-9:30 - Breakfast

9:30-10:30 - Huai-Dong Cao (Lehigh University) Geometry of Ricci Solitons

10:30-11:00 - Break

11:00-12:00 - Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia University) Ancient Solutions to Geometric Flows