Schedule

All talks will take place in Blocker Building Room 306.

Monday, August 15 (Talk Abstracts)

8:20-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:50 Paula Burkhardt-Guim

Lower scalar curvature bounds for C^0 metrics: a Ricci flow approach

9:50-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:20 Christos Mantoulidis

Decomposing 4-manifolds with positive scalar curvature

11:20-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-2:50 Sherry Gong

The Novikov conjecture, operator K theory, and diffeomorphism groups

3:00-3:50 Yanli Song

Delocalized analytic torsion for proper actions

3:50-4:20 Coffee Break

4:20-5:10 Bo Zhu

Volume growth of PSC on manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature

Tuesday, August 16 (Talk Abstracts)

9:00-9:50 Antoine Song

Groups, homology classes, and Plateau’s problem

9:50-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:20 Zhongshan An

Local existence and uniqueness of static vacuum manifold with Bartnik boundary data

11:20-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-2:50 Robin Deeley

A counterexample to the HK-conjecture that is principal

3:00-3:50 McFeely Jackson Goodman

Area extremality and Nonnegative Curvature in Dimension 4

3:50-4:20 Coffee Break

4:20-5:10 Jinmin Wang

Dihedral rigidity for submanifolds of warped product manifolds

Wednesday, August 17 (Talk Abstracts)

9:00-9:50 Jianchao Wu

The Novikov conjecture and groups of diffeomorphisms

9:50-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:20 Qiaochu Ma

The full asymptotics of analytic torsion and Toeplitz operators

11:20-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-2:50 Jonathan Zhu

Prescribed-point area estimates in space forms

3:00-3:50 Ao Sun

Generic regularity of level set flow

3:50-4:20 Coffee Break

4:20-5:10 Adrian Chun Pong Chu

A Free boundary minimal surface via a 6-sweep-out

Thursday, August 18 (Talk Abstracts)

9:00-9:50 Simone Cecchini

A long neck principle for Riemannian spin manifolds with positive scalar curvature

9:50-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:20 Ryan Unger

Positive mass theorems and Bartnik fill-ins for shielded manifolds