Workshop on Geometric Flows

March 4-5, 2006

At the Harvard Mathematics Department



Huai-Dong Cao

Panagiota Daskalopoulos

Richard Hamilton

Shing-Tung Yau

Organizers:

Huai-Dong Cao, Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Richard Hamilton, Shing-Tung Yau

Date:

March 4-5, 2006

Place:

Science center, lecture hall C, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138. Directions

Speakers:

Vincent Moncrief (Yale): "The Hamiltonian flow for 2+1-dimensional Einstein gravity"
Lei Ni (UCSD): "Local monotonicity and regularity for Ricci flow"
Duong Phong (Columbia): "The complex Monge-Ampere equation and geodesics of Kähler potentials"
Natasa Sesum (Columbia): The Kähler Ricci flow and properties of the solutions of the conjugate heat equation
Brian White (Stanford): Singularities in mean curvature flow
Xi-Ping Zhu (Zhongshan visiting Harvard): "Uniqueness of the Ricci flow on complete non-compact manifolds"
Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia) "Some positivity results of quasi-local mass".
Joachim Krieger (Harvard): "Global regularity and stability results for wave maps in low dimensions."
Horng-Tzer Yau (Harvard): "Long time behavior of the Schrödinger equation"

Program:

Saturday, March 4, 2006
0900-0955Duong Phong:The complex Ampere-Monge equation and geodesics of Kahler potentials
1000-1055Vincent Moncrief:The Hamiltonian Flow for 2+1 dimensional Einstein gravity
1100-1115BREAK
1115-1210Mu-Tao Wang:Some positivity results of quasi-local mass
1215-1400LUNCH
1400-1455Brian White:Singularities in mean curvature flow
1500-1555Natasa Sesum:The Kahler-Ricci flow and properties of the solutions of the conjugate heat equations
1600-1615BREAK
1615-1710Lei Ni:Local monotonicity and regularity for Ricci flow
Sunday March 5, 2006
0900-0955Xi-Ping Zhu:Uniqueness of the Ricci flow on complete non-compact manifolds
1000-1055Joachim Krieger:Global regularity and stability results for wavemaps in low dimension
1100-1115BREAK
1115-1210Horng-Tzer Yau :Long time behavior of the Schrödinger equation
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