JDG Conference 2008 (Seventh Conference on Geometry and Topology)

JDG 2008

The Seventh conference on Geometry and Topology

May 2-4, 2008

Organization:	Harvard Mathematics Department
Sponsors:	The event is sponsored by NSF, Harvard University, Lehigh University, and the Journal of Differential Geometry.
Date:	May 2-4 2008
Place:	Science center, Hall B, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138. Directions

Ricci flow workshop May 5, 2008

Following the JDG converence, a Ricci flow workshop takes place May 5, 2008:

Participants:

Richard Hamilton, Columbia

Richard Schoen, Stanford

Huai-Dong Cao , Lehigh

Shing-Tung Yau , Harvard

We will be able to provide financial support to a limited number of participants. Graduate students, recent PhD's, and members of underepresented groups are especially encouraged to participate and apply for support. F1 visa holders could also apply.

A conference celebrating the 40'th anniversary of the journal of differential geometry.

Program: [PDF]

FRIDAY May 2, 2008
9:15-10.15AM
10.30-11.30AM
11.30-1.30PM
1.30-2.30PM	Michael Hopkins (Harvard): Topological field theories in low dimensions
2.45-3.45PM	Richard Hamilton (Columbia): Analysis on Ricci flow
4.00-5.00PM	William Meeks (U Mass Amherst): Finite genus minimal and CMC surfaces in locally homogeneous 3-manifolds
5.15-6.15PM	Gerhard Huisken (Max Planck): Isoperimetric inequalities and the mass in general relativity
7.30-PM	BANQUET

SATURDAY MAY 3, 2008
9.15-10.15AM	Eckart Viehweg (Essen): Stability of Hodge bundles and a numerical characterization of Shimura varieties
10.30-11.30AM	Ron Donagi (U Penn): On the Geometric Langlands Conjecture
11.30-1.30PM	LUNCH
1.30-2.30PM	Richard Schoen (Stanford): New compactness and existence theorems for the high dimensional Yamabe problem
2.45-3.45PM	Claude LeBrun (Stony Brook): On Four-Dimensional Einstein Manifolds
4.00-5.00PM	Fanghua Lin (Courant): Hopf variants and knotted solitons in generalized Faddeev models
5.15-6.15PM	Tobias Coldings (Courant): Rate of change of width
6.15-

SUNDAY MAY 4, 2008
9.15-10.15AM	Yuri Tschinkel (Princeton): Geometry of function fields
10.30-11.30AM	Denis Auroux (MIT): Special Lagrangian fibrations and mirror symmetry for Fano manifolds
11.30-1.30PM	LUNCH
1.30-2.30PM	Mihalis Dafermos (Cambridge): The problem of cosmic censorship and singularities in general relativity
2.45-3.45PM	Simon Brendle (Stanford): Ricci flow in higher dimension and the sphere theorem
4.00-5.00PM	Xiaoqing Li (Buffalo): The subconvexity bounds for L-functions
5.15-6.15PM	Karsten Grove (Notre Dame): Topics around positive curvature
6.15-PM

Speakers:

Denis Auroux (MIT)	Simon Brendle (Stanford)	Tobias Colding (Courant)	Mihalis Dafermos (Cambridge)
Ron Donagi (Univ. Pennsylvenia)	Karsten Grove (Notre Dame)	Richard Hamilton (Columbia)	Michael Hopkins (Harvard)
Gerhard Huisken (Max Planck)	Claude Lebrun (Stony Brook)	Xiaoqing Li (Buffalo)	Fanghua Lin (Courant)
William Meeks (Amherst)	Richard Schoen (Stanford)	Yuri Tschinkel (Courant)	Eckhart Viehweg (Essen)

Support and Information

We will be able to provide partial support to a limited number of participants to cover their registration fee, and some local expenses. Graduate students, recent PhD's, and members of underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to participate and to apply for support. Graduate students should ask a faculty member to write a brief recommendation letter for them and send to Gena (email will be fine).

For further questions ask Gena Bursanat gena@math.harvard.edu.

Hotels

Sheraton Commander
        16 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 547-4800
        5-10 minute walk to Harvard campus

Harvard Square Hotel
        110 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 864-5200
        5-10 minute walk to Harvard campus

Harvard Manor House
        110 Mount Auburn Street
        telephone: (800) 458-5886
        next to Harvard Square,
        5 minutes to campus

Gateway Inn
        211 Concord Turnpike
        telephone: (800) 258-1980
        1.5 miles west of Harvard Square
        5 minutes to Alewife stop on red line
         
Irving House Bed and Breakfast
        24 Irving St., Cambridge MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 547-4600,
        10 minute walk from Harvard Square

Friendly Inn at Harvard
        1673 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 547-7851
        5-10 minute walk to Harvard campus

Radisson Hotel Cambridge
        777 Memorial Drive
        1.5 miles from Harvard Square or MIT,
        20 minute walk to Central Square MBTA.