Harvard Mathematics Logo Workshop on Flows in Geometry
May 15-17, 2005


Place: Science Center
Lecture Room 507
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, 02138

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Organizers:

Huai-Dong Cao           (Lehigh University) 
Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia University) 
Richard Hamilton        (Columbia University)
S.-T. Yau               (Harvard University)
Speakers and Schedule of Talks:


              SUNDAY MAY 15, 2005

1.  2.30 - 3.20 p.m. Mu-Tao Wang  (Columbia University) 
     "Some problems in mean curvature flows of Lagrangian submanifolds".
2.  3.30 - 4.20 p.m. Natasa Sesum (NYU)
     "A compactness theorem for Kähler-Ricci solitons"
3.  4.30 - 5.20 p.m. Albert Chau  (Harvard University)
     "On the uniformization of complete Kähler manifolds with nonnegative 
      curvature"

               MONDAY MAY 16, 2005

1.  9.30 - 10.20 a.m. Huai-Dong Cao (Lehigh University)
     "Second variation of Perelman's functionals and stability for Ricci solitons"

2. 10.30 - 11.20 a.m. Xi-Ping Zhu  (Zhongshan University, China)
     "Uniqueness of the Ricci flow on complete noncompact manifolds"
3. 11.30 - 12.20 p.m. David Jerison, (MIT)
     "An informal discussion of Perelman's work"

    Lunch

4. 2.30 - 3.20 p.m. Ben Weinkove (Harvard University)
     "Moment map flows and Kahler geometry"
5. 3.30 - 4.20 p.m. Hongwei Xu (Zhejiang University, China)
     "An extension of the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern Theorem and the Chern-Lashof Theorem"
6. 4.30 - 5.20 p.m. C.L Wang (National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan)
     TBA 
7. 5.30 - 6.20 p.m. Jih-Hsin Cheng (Academia Sinica,Taiwan)
     TBA
8. 6.30 - 7.20 p.m. Shu-Cheng Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
     TBA 



For more information about the scientific program, please contact the organizers by email: huc2@lehigh.edu. For all other information, please contact
        Gena Bursan:
        gena@math.harvard.edu.
        Tel: 617-495-1980
        Fax: 617-495-2180  



Last update, 5/11/2005