Nov 6 - Nov 8, 2026
A conference celebrating the work of
Tom Ilmanen (1961-2025)
Photo credit: Schmid, Renate, Archives of the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach.
The conference will begin in the early afternoon, around 1:30 pm on Friday, November 6, and will conclude by 12:00 noon on Sunday, November 8.
Confirmed Speakers:
Richard Bamler (UC Berkeley)
Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia University)
Michael Eichmair (University of Vienna)
Lawrence Evans (UC Berkeley)*
Robert Haslhofer (University of Toronto)
Gerhard Huisken (University of Tübingen)
Francisco Martin (University of Granada)
William Minicozzi (MIT)
André Neves (University of Chicago)
Felix Schulze (University of Warwick)
Lu Wang (Yale University)
*a special short talk
Organizers: Huaidong Cao, Daren Chen, Andrew Harder, Terry Napier, Rob Neel, Ao Sun, Xiaofeng Sun
Registration: Those interested in attending this conference should fill out the following registration form.
Limited financial support is available, with priority given to graduate students and recent PhDs, who are especially encouraged to participate and to apply for support.
Applications for financial support received by October 9, 2026 will be given full consideration.
We collaborate with the Comfort Suites to provide a special rate to our participants. The block room reservation cut-off date is October 9. Please mention "LU Math Department Conference" when making your reservations to get the special rate.
Sponsors: The conference is supported by Lehigh University, the Journal of Differential Geometry, and a (pending) NSF conference grant.