Program
All talks will be held in Room 100 of the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA) building.
Note, SIPA is just near the math department, on the other side of the lake.
Friday, Feb 16
1:30 pm-
Registration
1:50 pm- 2:00pm
Opening Remarks
2:00 -2:30pm
Roberto Araujo (Münster)
Title: Homogeneous Ricci Flows and the Dynamical Alekseevskii Conjecture
2:30 - 3:00pm
Tomoya Tatsuno (Oklahoma)
Title: Abstract Automorphisms of Heisenberg Groups from a Geometric Perspective
3:00 - 3:30pm
Wenchuan Tian (UC Santa Barbara)
Title: Compactness Conjecture for Closed Riemannian 3-manifolds with Non-negative Scalar Curvature
3:30 - 4:00pm
Jesse Madnick (Oregon)
Title: The Morse Index of Quartic Minimal Hypersurfaces
4:00 - 4:30pm
Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:30pm
Karen Butt (Chicago)
Title: Closed Geodesics and Stability of Negatively Curved Metrics
Saturday, Feb 17
9:00 - 10:00am
McFeely Goodman (Colby College)
Title: Curvature Operators and Rational Cobordism
10:00 - 10:30am
Coffee and Discussion
10:30 - 11:00am
Beatrice Brienza (Turin)
Title: CYT and SKT Manifolds with Parallel Bismut Torsion
11:00 - noon
Catherine Searle (Wichita State)
Title: When is an Alexandrov Space Smoothable?
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Jorge Lauret (Córdoba)
Title: Aligned Homogeneous Spaces
3:00 - 3:30pm
Ivo Terek (Ohio State)
Title: Compact Locally Homogeneous Manifolds with Parallel Weyl Curvature
3:30 - 4:00pm
Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:00pm
Cynthia Will (Córdoba)
Title: Einstein Metrics on Homogeneous Spaces G=H x H/ \Delta K
5:00 - 5:30pm
Matthew Kushelman (NC State)
Title: On Liouville’s Theorem for Conformal Maps
Sunday, Feb 18
9:00 - 10:00am
Izar Alonso (Rutgers)
Title: New Examples of SU(2)^2-invariant G_2 Instantons
10:00 - 10:30am
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00am
Hayden Hunter (Florida)
Title: On Higher Dimensional Milnor Frames
11:00 - noon
Simon Chiossi (U. Federal Fluminense)
Title: Riemannian 4-manifolds with Small Holonomy (Calabi Rulez)