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

Registration


Opening Remarks 


Roberto Araujo (Münster)

Title: Homogeneous Ricci Flows and the Dynamical Alekseevskii Conjecture


Tomoya Tatsuno (Oklahoma)

Title: Abstract Automorphisms of Heisenberg Groups from a Geometric Perspective


Wenchuan Tian (UC Santa Barbara)

Title: Compactness Conjecture for Closed Riemannian 3-manifolds with Non-negative Scalar Curvature


Jesse Madnick (Oregon)

Title: The Morse Index of Quartic Minimal Hypersurfaces


Coffee Break


Karen Butt (Chicago)

Title: Closed Geodesics and Stability of Negatively Curved Metrics


Saturday, Feb 17

McFeely Goodman (Colby College)

Title: Curvature Operators and Rational Cobordism



Coffee and Discussion


Beatrice Brienza (Turin)

Title: CYT and SKT Manifolds with Parallel  Bismut Torsion


Catherine Searle (Wichita State)

Title: When is an Alexandrov Space Smoothable?




Jorge Lauret (Córdoba)

Title: Aligned Homogeneous Spaces


Ivo Terek (Ohio State)

Title: Compact Locally Homogeneous Manifolds with Parallel Weyl Curvature


Coffee Break


Cynthia Will (Córdoba)

Title: Einstein Metrics on Homogeneous Spaces G=H x H/ \Delta K



Matthew Kushelman (NC State)

Title: On Liouville’s Theorem for Conformal Maps

Sunday, Feb 18

Izar Alonso (Rutgers)

Title: New Examples of SU(2)^2-invariant G_2 Instantons


Coffee Break


Hayden Hunter (Florida)

Title: On Higher Dimensional Milnor Frames


Simon Chiossi (U. Federal Fluminense)

Title: Riemannian 4-manifolds with Small Holonomy (Calabi Rulez)





Title and Abstract

SGSF Abstracts.pdf