Texas Geometry and Topology Conference
Serving the Mathematical Community since 1989

Summary of Previous Meetings

National speakers are indicated by (*)

Meetings Index

• Meeting 01: University of Houston, March 10-12, 1989
• Meeting 02: University of Texas, Austin, December 1-3, 1989
• Meeting 03: Rice University, March 30 - April 1, 1990
• Meeting 04: North Texas State University, November 6-8, 1990 (AMS Regional Meeting, Special Session)
• Meeting 05: Texas A&M University, April 12-14, 1991
• Meeting 06: University of Texas, Austin, October 18-20, 1991
• Meeting 07: The University of Houston, February 7-9, 1992
• Meeting 08: San Antonio, Texas, January 13-16, 1993 (AMS Winter Meeting, Special Session)
• Meeting 09: Rice University, April 16-18, 1993
• Meeting 10: Texas A&M University, October 22-23, 1993 (AMS Regional Meeting, Special Session)
• Meeting 11: University of Texas, April 15-17, 1994
• Meeting 12: Texas A&M University, November 11-13, 1994
• Meeting 13: Rice University, April 7-9, 1995
• Meeting 14: University of Texas, Austin, November 10-12, 1995
• Meeting 15: University of Houston, February 23-25, 1996
• Meeting 16: Rice University, October 11-13, 1996
• Meeting 17: Texas Christian University, February 7-9, 1997
• Meeting 18: Rice University, November 14-16, 1997
• Meeting 19: University of Houston, April 24-26, 1998
• Meeting 20: University of Texas, Austin, October 16-18, 1998
• Meeting 21: Texas Tech University, February 26-28, 1999
• Meeting 22: Texas A&M University, November 12-14, 1999
• Meeting 23: University of Texas, Austin, February 25-27, 2000
• Meeting 24: Rice University, November 10-12, 2000
• Meeting 25: Texas Christian University, February 23-25, 2001
• Meeting 26: Texas A&M University, November 2-4, 2001
• Meeting 27: Texas Tech University, April 5-7, 2002
• Meeting 28: University of Texas, Austin, October 11-13, 2002
• Meeting 29: University of Houston, February 21-23, 2003
• Meeting 30: Rice University, October 31-November 2, 2003
• Meeting 31: Texas Christian University, February 27-29, 2004
• Meeting 32: Texas A&M University, October 29-31, 2004
• Meeting 33: Texas Tech University, February 25-27, 2005
• Meeting 34: University of Texas, Austin, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2005
• Meeting 35: University of Houston, February 17-19, 2006
• Meeting 36: Rice University, October 27-29, 2006
• Meeting 37: Texas Christian University, March 23-25, 2007
• Meeting 38: Texas A&M University, October 19-21, 2007
• Meeting 39: Texas Tech University, February 22-24, 2008
  

Meeting 1: University of Houston, March 10-12, 1989

Jeff Cheeger*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Complete manifolds of bounded curvature and finite volume

S. S. Chern*, University of California, Berkeley
Dupin submanifolds

L. Zhiyong Gao, Rice University
Convergence theorems for Riemannian manifolds

Robert Gompf, The University of Texas, Austin
Topology of algebraic surfaces

Robert Hardt, Rice University
Symmetric and asymmetric harmonic maps

Jon Pitts, Texas A&M University
Applications of geometric variational methods in the large

Karen Uhlenbeck, The University of Texas, Austin
Non-minimal solutions to Yang-Mills equations

Meeting 2: University of Texas, Austin, December 1-3, 1989

Jaigyoung Choe, Rice University
Isoperimetric inequality, index and stability of a minimal surface

Ezra Getzler*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Analysis on loop groups

Robion Kirby*, University of California, Berkeley
Witten-Reshetikin-Turaev invariants of 3-manifolds

Raymond Lickorish, Visiting The University of Texas, Austin
3-manifold invariants from the combinatorics of the Jones polynomial

Frank Quinn*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Gromov convergence of stratified sets

Michael Wolf, Rice University
Harmonic maps and Teichmuller theory

Phillip Yasskin, Texas A&M University
The diffeomorphism group as a partial indirect product

Meeting 3: Rice University, March 30 - April 1, 1990

David Bao, University of Houston
The geometric origin of a highly degenerate Monge-Ampere equation

Robert Bryant*, Duke University
Twistors and holonomy

Robin Forman, Rice University
Torsion and a theorem of Milnor

Dan Freed, The University of Texas, Austin
Finite quantum field theories

Cameron Gordon, The University of Texas, Austin
Dehn surgery

Reese Harvey, Rice University
Chern currents

Shangyu Ji, University of Houston
Kähler currents on compact complex manifolds

Leon Simon*, Stanford University
Asymptotics near singular points

Meeting 4: North Texas State University, November 6-8, 1990 (American Mathematical Society, Regional Meeting, Special Session)

Ara Basmajian, University of Oklahoma
The orthogonal spectrum of a hyperbolic manifold

Charles P. Boyer, University of New Mexico
The hyperkähler geometry of instanton moduli

A. Delshams, University of Barcelona
R. de la LLave, University of Texas, Austin
Convergent perturbation theories for volume preserving flows and maps

Reinhard O. W. Franz, University of Bielefeld
Counting periodic tilings of the plane

Brian Kasper, University of Texas, Austin
Examples of symplectic structures of fiber bundles

Daniel P. Lathrop, University of Texas, Austin
The observation of saddle periodic orbits in physical systems

Terry Lohrenz, Rice University
Determinants on CR manifolds

Benjamin M. Mann, University of New Mexico
The total Chern class is an infinite loop

R. Daniel Mauldin, University of North Texas
Topological properties of some attractors for cylinder maps

Alec Norton, University of Texas, Austin
The Denjoy problem in two dimensions

Thomas Otway, University of Texas, Austin
Karen Uhlenbeck, University of Texas, Austin
The p-Yang-Mills equations

Johan Råde, University of Texas, Austin
The gradient flow for the Yang-Mills functional in two and three
dimensions

Daniel B. Swearingen, Rice University
On the geometry of the moduli space of flat tori

Marty Ross, Rice University
Schwarz' P-surface is stable

Daniel S. Silver, University of South Alabama
Growth rates and knots

Laurette S. Tuckerman, University of Texas, Austin
Bifurcation analysis of the Eckhaus instability

S. Walter Wei, University of Oklahoma
Some quasilinear systems with a lack of ellipticity

Susan G. Williams, University of South Alabama
Lattice invariants for sofic shifts

Meeting 5: Texas A&M University, April 12-14, 1991

Ilya Bakelman, Texas A&M University
Hypersurfaces with prescribed mean curvature in Riemannian spaces

Tim Cochran, Rice University
Homology cobordism and links

Robert Gompf, University of Texas, Austin
Irreducible 4-manifolds need not be complex

Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma
Radon transforms and the geometry of convex sets

Richard Schoen*, Stanford University
Some new applications of harmonic maps to rigidity problems

Stephen Semmes, Rice University
A generalization of Riemann mappings to several complex variables

Peter Stiller, Texas A&M University
On the geometry and arithmetic of elliptic surfaces

Clifford Taubes*, Harvard University
Stable uniformization of 4-dimensional manifolds

Meeting 6: University of Texas, Austin, October 18-20, 1991

David Bao, University of Houston
A Harnack inequality for the p-Laplacian diffusion equation

Michael Freedman*, University of California at San Diego
From annulus conjecture to signal processing

John Hempel, Rice University
Positive diagrams for 3-manifolds

Ben Mann, University of Texas, Austin
The topology of moduli spaces and the Atiyah-Jones conjecture

Dusa McDuff*, New York University
Pseudo-holomorphic curves in symplectic 4-manifolds

Karen Uhlenbeck, University of Texas, Austin
Global analysis: a subject before its time?

Tom Vogel, Texas A&M University
Capillary surfaces in wedges and cones

Meeting 7: The University of Houston, February 7-9, 1992

Dan Burns*, University of Michigan
Development maps in CR and complex hyperbolic geometry

S. S. Chern*, University of California at Berkeley
Closed W-surfaces

Mike Field*, Sydney University
Geometric and topological methods in the analysis of symmetry breaking

Robin Forman, Rice University
Spectral sequences via harmonic forms

Dan Freed, University of Texas, Austin
Variations on the Chern-Simons form

Shanyu Ji, University of Houston
Currents, metrics and Moishezon manifolds

Robert Kusner*, University of Massachusetts
The geometry of constant mean curvature surfaces

Sheldon Newhouse*, University of North Carolina
Symbolic dynamics in low-dimensional systems

Chris Pope, Texas A&M University
W-algebras and W-strings

Leon Simon*, Stanford University
The singular set of minimal surfaces and harmonic maps

Meeting 8: San Antonio, Texas, January 13-16, 1993 (American Mathematical Society, Winter Meeting, Special Session)

James W. Anderson, Rice University
Intersections of topologically tame Kleinian groups

Dave Auckly, University of Texas, Austin
Topological methods to compute Chern-Simons invariants

J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
Masahico Salto, University of Texas, Austin
Movie diagrams and simplex equations

Edward G. Dunne, Oklahoma State University
Twistor theory for indefinite Kähler manifolds

Mario Eudave-Muñoz, Ciudad University, Mexico
Non-hyperbolic manifolds obtained by Dehn surgery on an hyperbolic knot

Dana S. Fine, University of Massachusetts
Chern-Simons theory via path integrals

Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
Floppy curess and applications to nonsingular real algebraic curves

William C. Jagy, Midwestern State University
Classifying sphere-foliated CMC submanifolds of space forms

Amelia C. Jones, University of Oregon
Two-generator links

Kerry N. Jones, University of Texas, Austin
Alan W. Reid, University of Texas, Austin
Nonsimple geodesics in hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Edward C. Keppelmann, Texas A&M University
The Nielson theory of fibrations

Georgi Kamberov, Rice University
Initial boundary value problems for the Ricci flow

Guojun Liao, University of Texas, Arlington
Volume preserving diffeomorphisms of a manifold with boundary

Robert McLean, Texas A&M University
Recent results in the holonomy manifolds with an affine connection

Sassan Mohseni, University of Dallas
Continuity of the Liouville form of metrics of non-positive curvature

Chris L. Morin, University of Texas, Austin
Homotopy unknotting number

Max Neumann-Coto, University National Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
Least area tori in 3-manifolds

Ken Richardson, Rice University
Critical points of the determinant of the Laplace operator

Edith Starr, Rice University
Curves in the boundary of a handlebody

Ying-Quing Wu, University of Texas, Austin
Unlinked graphs in 3-manifolds

Meeting 9: Rice University, April 16-18, 1993

Mark Brittenham, University of Texas, Austin
Essential laminations in non-Haken 3-manifolds

Huai-Dong Cao, Texas A&M University
Harnack estimates for heat flows

Yakov Eliashberg*, Stanford University
Topology of 2-knots and symplectic geometry

Rick Litherland, Louisiana State University
Numerical invariants for knotted graphs

Howard Masur*, University of Illinois, Chicago
A random walk on the mapping class group and the boundary of
Teichmuller space

Matthew Nicol, University of Houston
Detecting the symmetry of attractors: an approach based on ergodicity

Amy Radunskaya, Rice University
Detecting geometric and statistical properties of attractors

Walter Wei, University of Oklahoma
p-harmonic maps with applications to topology geometry, and PDE's

Shiah-Sen Wang, Rice University
Energy minimizing sections of bundles

John Zweck, Rice University
Chern currents of singular connectins associated with a compactified bundle

Meeting 10: Texas A&M University, October 22-23, 1993 (American Mathematical Society, Regional Meeting, Special Session)

James Anderson, Rice University
Defects of Schottky groups

Dave Auckly, University of Texas, Austin
An irreducible homology sphere which is not Dehn

T. David Hendricks, Texas A&M University
Existence of hypersurfaces of prescribed mean curvature

Paulo Lima-Filho, Texas A&M University
Algebraic cycles as a topological group functor

Terry Lohrenz, Rice University
The spectrum of the number operator in path space

Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas, Austin
Moduli of singular Yang-Mills fields

Yoshi Tonegawa, Rice University
Complete constant mean curvature surfaces in hyperbolic space

Karen Uhlenbeck, University of Texas, Austin
Dipole solutions to the meron problem

Louis Zulli, Rice University
A matrix for computing the Jones polynomial of a knot

Meeting 11: University of Texas, April 15-17, 1994

Martin Betz, University of Texas, Austin
Symplectic Floer homology operations

Robert Fintushel*, Michigan State University
2-spheres and the Donaldson series

Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston
Symmetry attractors

Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech University
Spectral geometry on Riemannian nilmanifolds

James Milgram*, University of New Mexico
The geometry of instanton moduli spaces on spheres
and ruled surfaces

Dan Pollack, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Singular Yamabe metrics and constant mean curvature

Richard Stong, Rice University
Topological embeddings of 2-spheres in 4-manifolds

Panel Discussion: Undergraduate research
Moderator: Hugo Rossi*, University of Utah
Murad Ozaydin, University of Oklahoma
Alice Underwood, University of North Texas
Phil Yasskin, Texas A&M University

Meeting 12: Texas A&M University, November 11-13, 1994

Andrew Casson*, University of California, Berkeley
A possible approach to the geometrization conjecture

Davide Cervone*, The Geometry Center
The National Science and Technology Research Center for Computation and Visualization of Geometric Structures: a postdoc's perspective

Dan Freed, University of Texas, Austin
Late breaking news in gauge theory

Robert Gompf, University of Texas, Austin
Cutting and pasting symplectic manifolds

Richard Hamilton*, University of California, San Diego
Problems on the Ricci flow on 3-manifolds

Shanyu Ji, University of Houston
On Riemann's mapping problem

Blaine Lawson*, SUNY at Stony Brook
On moving families

Jean Taylor*, Rutgers University
Crystalline surface diffusion

DaGang Yang, Tulane University
Bounded harmonic forms on complete manifolds

Meeting 13: Rice University, April 7-9, 1995

Pawel Gajer, Texas A&M University
A geometric interpretation of smooth Deligne cohomology

Cameron Gordon, University of Texas, Austin
Which knot has the most exceptional surgeries?

Steve Hurder*, University of Illinois, Chicago
Coarse chaos

Tom Mrowka*, California Institute of Technology
The Seibert-Witten equations and the topology of four-manifolds

Efton Park, Texas Christian University
Index theory on odd-dimensional manifolds

Vern Paulsen, University of Houston
Von Neumann's inequality, completely bounded maps, and the
Caratheodory and Kobayashi metrics

William Veech, Rice University
Delaunay partitions

Panel Discussion: Helping minorities and first generation collegians
succeed in freshman mathematics
Moderator: Uri Treisman, University of Texas, Austin
Nancy King, Texas Southern University
Cynthia Lanius, Milby High School, Houston

Meeting 14: University of Texas, Austin, November 10-12, 1995

Mike Anderson*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Scalar curvature and geometrization for 3-manifolds

Francis Bonahon*, University of Southern California
Hyperbolic convex hulls

Jim Cannon*, Brigham Young University
Recognizing constant curvature groups from planar
subdivision rules

Mike Freedman*, University of California, San Diego
A nilpotent classification of closed 3-manifolds

Jon Pitts, Texas A&M University
Computing least area hypersurfaces spanning arbitrary boundaries

David Morrison*, Duke University
Supersymmetric maps and the topology of Calabi-Yau manifolds

Hyam Rubinstein*, University of Melbourne
Singular incompressible surfaces in 3-manifolds

Meeting 15: University of Houston, February 23-25, 1996

S. S. Chern*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Welcoming Remarks

Robert Bryant*, Duke University
The geometry of Finsler surfaces of constant curvature

Jeff Cheeger*, Courant Institute
Manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below

Reese Harvy, Rice University
Atomic sections and Chern currents

Min Ru, University of Houston
On the Gauss map of minimal surfaces in n-dimensional Euclidean
space

Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas, Austin
Aperiodic tiling and pinwheel geometry

Ying Shen, Texas A&M University
Rigidty of stable minimal hypersurfaces

Zhongmin Shen*, I.U.P.U.I.
Topology of complete manioflds with non-negative
Ricci curvature

Special Presentation: Teaching ODE's using new technology
John Polking, Rice University
Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston

Meeting 16: Rice University, October 11-13, 1996

Mladen Bestvina*, University of Utah
Homotopy hyperbolic 3-manifolds are hyperbolic

Huai-Dong Cao, Texas A&M University
Two theorems of Bernstein type

Toby Colding*, New York University
Weyl type bounds for harmonic functions

Fanghua Lin*, University of Chicago
Harmonic and quasi-harmonic spheres

Robert Meyerhoff*, Boston College
Homotopy hyperbolic 3-manifolds are hyperbolic

Alan Reid, University of Texas, Austin
Closed essential surfaces in bounded 3-manifolds

Richard Stong, Rice University
A maximally contractive map from Z^2 to Z^3

Karen Uhlenbeck, University of Texas, Austin
Two interesting geometric evolution equations

Meeting 17: Texas Christian University, February 7-9, 1997

Robin Forman, Harvard University and Rice University
Combinatorial differential topology and geometry

Claude LeBrun*, SUNY Stony Brook
On 4-dimensional Einstein manifolds

Paulo Lima-Filho, Texas A&M University
Generating functions for Euler-Chow invariants of projective varieties

Darryl McCullough, University of Oklahoma
Diffeomorphisms of 3-manifolds

Kate Okikiolu*, MIT and Princeton University
The determinant of the Laplacian for 3-manifolds

Jonathan Rosenberg*, University of Maryland
Secrets of the signature operator

Gerard Walschap, University of Oklahoma
Metric fibrations in spaces of nonnegative curvature

Xingru Zhang, Oklahoma State University
Virtual Haken Dehn surgery on knots in reducible 3-manifolds

Panel Discussion: Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Ara Basmajian, University of Oklahoma
George Gilbert, Texas Christian University
Rhonda Hatcher, Texas Christian University

Meeting 18: Rice University, November 14-16, 1997

Tim Cochran, Rice University
Finite type invariants for 3-manifolds

John Lott*, University of Michigan
Spinors and collapsing

Mikhail Lyubich*, SUNY Stony Brook
Hyperbolic laminations associated with rational maps

John Millson*, University of Maryland, College Park
On representation varieties of Artin groups, projective arrangements, and the fundamental groups of smooth complex varieties

Dennis Sullivan*, CUNY Graduate Center and SUNY Stony Brook
On the smooth continuum model used in geometry
and the natural sciences

Abby Thompson*, University of California, Davis
Two parameter graphics for 3-manifolds and knots

Shmuel Weinberger*, University of Chicago
Arithmetic groups and variational problems for Riemannian manifolds

Meeting 19: University of Houston, April 24-26, 1998

Doug Bullock*, University of Maryland
Lattice gauge field theory and quantum invariants

Marcus Cohen*, New Mexico State University
Quadrispin geometry and the dynamics of a unified field

John Oprea*, Cleveland State University
Differential geometry, computers and today's science majors

Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas
Parallel bundles and symmetric spaces

Barbara Shipman*, University of Rochester
The geometry of the honeybee's dance language

Barbara Shipman*, University of Rochester
Convex polytopes and momentum mappings in the geometry of generalized flag manifolds: a physical interpretation and connections with honeybee

Barbara Shipman*, University of Rochester
Convex polytopes and torus actions on generalized flag manifolds in
the geometry of a completely integrable dynamical system

Jian Zhou, Texas A&M University
Equivariant cohomology, localization and applications

Meeting 20: University of Texas, Austin, October 16-18, 1998

Dave Auckly*, Kansas State University
The geometry of balance

Helmut Hofer*, Courant Institute
The concept of energy in symplectic geometry

Jacques Hurtubise*, McGill University
Integrable systems and surfaces

Sheldon Katz*, Oklahoma State University
Singularities and string theory

Ken Stephenson*, University of Tennessee
A "regular" pentagonal tiling of the plane

Margaret Symington, University of Texas at Austin
Sympletic rational blowdowns

Jon Wolfson*, Michigan State University
The Plateau problem for Lagrangian surfaces

Meeting 21: Texas Tech University, February 26-28, 1999

Jim Anderson*, University of Southampton and Rice University
Locally free Kleinian groups and hyperbolic manifolds

Charles Boyer*, University of New Mexico
Einstein manifolds via contact geometry

Tanya Christiansen*, University of Missouri - Columbia
Spectral theory for some noncompact manifolds

Patrick Eberlein*, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Geometry of two-step nilpotent Lie groups

Sergio Fenley*, Washington University in St. Louis
Immersed surfaces transverse to pseudo-Anosov flows and virtual fibers

Peter Petersen*, University of California - Los Angeles
The Hitchin-Thorpe inequality for noncompact 4-manifolds

Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University
Group actions and the heat equation

Lisa Traynor*, Bryn Mawr
Legendrian Tangles

Meeting 22: Texas A&M University, November 12-14, 1999

Dan Freed, University of Texas at Austin
Actions and anomalies

Bong Lian*, Brandeis University
Potential function of a Calabi-Yau threefold

Rafe Mazzeo*, Stanford University
Singular Monge-Ampere equations and critical exponent problems

Bill Minicozzi*, Johns Hopkins University
Embedded minimal tori in 3-manifolds and applications

Stephen Semmes, Rice University
Quasi-minimizing surfaces and applications to sets with topological
nondegeneracy

Ron Stern*, University of California, Irvine
Surfaces in smooth and symplectic -manifolds

Chuu-Lian Terng*, Northeastern University
Geometry of the n-wave equation

Gang Tian*, MIT
Kähler Ricci solitons

Meeting 23: University of Texas, Austin, February 25-27, 2000

Danny Calegari*, University of California, Berkeley
Taut foliations with one-sided branching

Bob Edwards*, University of California, Los Angeles
Compact non-Lie group actions

Bob Gompf, University of Texas, Austin
Topologically characterizing symplectic manifolds

John Hempel, Rice University
Stack intersection numbers as a measure of complexity for splittings
of 3-manifolds

Steve Kerckhoff*, Stanford University
A priori bounds for hyperbolic Dehn surgery

Hyam Rubinstein*, University of Melbourne and Stanford University
Recognizing bundle covers of some 3-manifolds

Peter Teichner*, University of California, San Diego
A survey on von Neumann signatures

Constantin Teleman, University of Texas at Austin
Quantization of the Hitchin system

Meeting 24: Rice University, November 10-12, 2000

Chris Connell*, University of Illinois, Chicago
Bounding the degree of maps

Misha Kapovich*, University of Utah
Periods of abelian differentials and dynamics

Tao Li, The University of Texas, Austin
Laminar branched surfaces in 3-manifolds

Kefeng Liu*, Stanford University
Heat kernel, symplectic geometry, moduli spaces, and finite groups

Nikolai Nadirashvili*, University of Chicago
Critical points of eigenfunctions

Andrei Okounkov*, University of California, Berkeley
Random trees and moduli of curves

Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
The geometry of spaces of finite trees

Jian Zhou*, M.I.T.
Vertex algebras in differential geometry

Meeting 25: Texas Christian University, February 23-25, 2001

Ara Basmajian, University of Oklahoma
A generic geometric property of constant curvature 3-manifolds

Phil Bowers*, Florida State University
Computing conformal structures of curved surfaces

Leonid Friedlander*, University of Arizona
The differential invariant related to the first value of the Laplacian

Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University
Kauffman bracket skein modules and character varieties

Franz Kamber*, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Equivariant dimensional reduction and the Bott-Borel-Weil theorem

John Roe*, The Pennsylvania State University
Topological implications of amenability

Machiel van Frankenhuysen*, Rutgers University
The ABC Conjecture implies Vojta's height inequality for curves

Frederico Xavier*, University of Notre Dame
Some geometric and analytical questions relating to global injectivity

Meeting 26: Texas A&M University, November 2-4, 2001

Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas, Austin
Plane-like minimal surfaces in periodic media, and related problems

Richard Hamilton*, Columbia University and University of California,
Irvine
Geometric estimates for the logarithmic porous medium equation

Robert Hardt, Rice University
Bubbling, bubbles, and scans

Gerhart Huisken*, University of Tuebingen
Neck pinching in mean curvature flow

Paulo Lima-Filho, Texas A&M University
Twisted multiplicative transfers and characteristic classes

Kefeng Liu*, University of California, Los Angeles
Mathematical results inspired by physics

Paul Yang*, Princeton University
Conformal invariants and a sphere theorem

Meeting 27: Texas Tech University, April 5-7, 2002

Ivan Avramidi, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Heat kernel asymptotics

Peter Buser*, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Spectral rigidity of Fuchsian groups of small signature

Lisa DeMeyer, Oklahoma State University
Geodesics in nilpotent groups

Stephen Fulling, Texas A&M University
Making quantization and pseudodifferential operators geometrically
correct

Rob Kusner*, University of Massachussets, Amherst
Tying knots with spaghetti

Ernesto Lupercio*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Orbifolds, gerbes, and Deligne cohomology

Liviu Nicolaescu*, University of Notre Dame
Seiberg-Witten invariants and surface singurlarities

Peter A. Perry*, University of Kentucky, Lexington
Determinants of Laplacians, scattering poles, and isopolar sets of
Riemann surfaces

Meeting 28: University of Texas, Austin, October 11-13, 2002

Jean Pierre Bourguignon*, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques
Improved Kato inequalities and geometric applications

Steven Bradlow*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Moduli spaces of augmented bundles: theory and practice

Philip Candelas, University of Texas, Austin
Zeta function for the quintic threefold

Antonella Grassi*, University of Pennsylvania
Geometry of large N-dualities

Takashi Kimura*, Boston University and Institute for Advanced Study
On integrable systems and cohomological field theories

Rick Schoen*, Stanford University
Yamabe invariants of three manifolds

Jalal Shatah*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Geometric dispersive equations

Clifford Taubes*, Harvard University
Instabilities and interquark forces

Meeting 29: University of Houston, February 21-23, 2003

Michael Gage*, University of Rochester
Minkowski geometry, curve shortening, and flow by weighted mean
curvature

Roland Glowinski, University of Houston
Numerical methods for the Dirichlet problem for the two-dimensional elliptic Monge-Ampere equation: from augmented Lagrangians to incompressible Navier-Stokes equations solution methods

Brendan Hassett, Rice University
Flipping the moduli space of curves

Tamas Hausel, The University of Texas at Austin
Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality, and representations of finite
groups of Lie type

Jacob Sturm*, Rutgers University,
Scalar curvature and Deligne pairing

Jiaping Wang*, University of Minnesota
Geometry and topology of manifolds with positive spectrum

Pit-Mann Wong*, Univeristy of Notre Dame
p-adic Monge-Ampere equations and related problems

Meeting 30: Rice University, October 31-November 2, 2003

Daniel Allcock, The University of Texas at Austin
The fundamental group of the space of smooth cubic surfaces

Richard Kenyon*, Universit'e Paris-Sud and Princeton University
Asymptotics of random discrete interfaces

Peter Ozsv'ath*, Columbia University
Geometric transitions and integrable systems

Tony Pantev*, University of Pennsylvania
Floer homology and Dehn fillings

Mihnea Popa*, Harvard University
Asymptotic intersection numbers and restricted volumes

Jason Starr*, M.I.T.
Sections of algebraic fibrations

Genevieve Walsh, The University of Texas at Austin
Some examples of virtually Haken and virtually fibered 3-manifolds

Mu-Tao Wang*, Columbia University
Mean curvature flows of Lagrangian submanifolds

Meeting 31: Texas Christian University, February 27-29, 2004

Cameron Gordon, The University of Texas at Austin
Knots with unknotting number 1

James Heitsch*, University of Illinois, Chicago
Index theory and non-commutative geometry

Theron J. Hitchman, Rice University
Rigidity of weakly hyperbolic standard actions of lattices in rank one
Lie groups on nilmanifolds

John Lott*, University of Michigan
Towards a synthetic notion of Ricci curvature

Stephen Semmes, Rice University
Happy fractals

Krishnan Shankar*, University of Oklahoma
Spherical rank rigidity and Blaschke manifolds

Mikhail Shubin*, Northeastern University
Spectral properties of Schrödinger operators

Magdalena Toda, Texas Tech University
Lorentz conformal structures and the wave equation

Meeting 32: Texas A&M University, October 29-31, 2004

Charles Boyer*, University of New Mexico
Einstein metrics on spheres

Simon Brendle*, Princeton University
The concentration-compactness principle and the Yamabe flow in
conformal geometry

Huai-Dong Cao*, Lehigh University
Second variation of Perelman's entropies and stability of Ricci
solitons

Tobias Colding*, New York University
The Calabi-Yau conjectures for embedded surfaces

Benson Farb*, University of Chicago
Hidden symmetry

Joseph Landsberg, Harvard University/Texas A&M University
On the complexity of matrix multiplication

Chiu-Chu Liu*, Harvard University
Gromov-Witten invariants of toric Calabi-Yau threefolds

Brian White*, Stanford University
New applications of mean curvature flow to minimal surfaces

Meeting 33: Texas Tech University, February 25-27, 2005

Ruth Gornet, University of Texas at Arlington
The length spectrum and isospectrality

Brian Hall*, University of Notre Dame
The range of the heat operator

Klaus Kirsten, Baylor University
Zeta and eta invariants for Dirac operators with Chiral bag boundary conditions

John Sullivan*, Technical University of Berlin
Geometric knot theory

Craig Sutton*, University of Pennsylvania
Methods for constructing isospectral manifolds

Alejandro Uribe*, University of Michigan
Quantizing (non-Kähler) compact symplectic manifolds

V. S. Varadarajan*, University of California at Los Angeles
Super geometry and modern physics

Zhenghan Wang*, Indiana University
Noncommutative geometry and quantum computing

Meeting 34: University of Texas, Austin, September 30-October 2, 2005

David Ben-Zvi, The University of Texas at Austin
Langlands Duality for Representations of Real Lie Groups

George Daskalopoulos*, Brown University
Harmonic maps on singular domains and geometric rigidity

John Etnyre*, University of Pennsylvania
Contact geometry and open book genus

Nancy Hingston*, College of New Jersey
Periodic Solutions of Hamilton's Equations on Tori

Sheldon Katz*, University of Illinois
Donaldson-Thomas invariants of complex projective threefolds

Rafe Mazzeo*, Stanford University
Some linear and nonlinear elliptic problems in higher rank geometries

Dennis Sullivan*, SUNY at Stony Brook
The free loop space of a manifold and the moduli space of Riemann
surfaces

Paul Seidel*, University of Chicago
Khovanov meets Ozsvath-Szabo

Meeting 35: University of Houston, February 17-19, 2006

Robert L. Bryant*, Duke University
Finsler 2-spheres of constant curvature

Brendan Hassett, Rice University
Compact moduli spaces for surfaces of general type

Shanyu Ji, University of Houston
Rigidity problems for proper holomorphic maps between balls

Dan Knopf, The University of Texas at Austin
Ricci flow with surgery, as applied to Poincaré

Zhongmin Shen, NSF and IUPUI
Randers metrics of scalar flag curvature

Yum-Tong Siu, Harvard University
Multiplier ideals – a new technique linking analysis and algebraic
geometry

Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University
Chern numbers and Chern–Simons terms in physics

Meeting 36: Rice University, October 27-October 29, 2006

Joan Birman*, Columbia University
Invariants of Heegaard splittings and of 3-manifolds

Elisenda Grigsby*, Columbia University
A combinatorial description of the knot Floer homology of cyclic
branched covers

Richard Hain*, Duke University
Relative weight filtrations on completions of mapping class groups

Ko Honda*, University of Southern California
Reeb vector fields and open book decompositions

Eleny Ionel*, Stanford University
Singular spaces and Gromov-Witten invariants

Mikhail Kovanov*, Columbia University
Braid cobordisms and triangulated categories

Feg Luo*, Rutgers University
Volume and angle structures on 3-manifolds

Daniel Ruberman*, Brandeis University
Periodic Dirac operators and positive scalar curvature on 4-manifolds

Meeting 37: Texas Christian University, March 23-25, 2007

Tara Brendle, Louisiana State University
Wicket groups and ring groups

Richard Canary*, University of Michigan
Introductory bumponomics: deformation theory of Kleinian groups

Christina Sormani*, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College
The covering spectrum of a Riemannian manifold

Steve Ferry*, Rutgers University
Higson's compactification and the Novikov Conjecture

Payl Loya*, Binghampton University
Gluing formulas for the spectral invariants of Dirac operators

Greg Friedman, Texas Christian University
Intersection homology and Poincarè duality on homotopically
stratified spaces

J. M. Landsberg, Texas A&M University
Projective rigidity and flexibility of homogeneous varieties

Robin Hartshorne*, University of California, Berkeley
Gorenstein liaison of algebraic varieties

Meeting 38: Texas A&M University, October 19-21, 2007

Simon Brendle*, Stanford University
1/4-pinched manifolds are space forms

Jean-Pierre Demailly*, Université de Grenoble
On compact complex manifolds covered by a torus

Michael Eastwood*, University of Adelaide
The X-ray transform on complex projective space

Yakov Eliashberg*, Stanford University/Columbia University
Orderability of groups of contact transformations and related topics

Dan Freed, University of Texas (Austin)
Remarks on topological field theory

Bruce Kleiner*, Yale University
Bi-Lipschitz embedding in Banach spaces

Ngaiming Mok*, University of Hong Kong
Analytic continuation of local holomorphic maps isometric
with respect to the Bergman metric

Natasa Sesum*, Columbia University
Compactness results for the Kähler-Ricci flow

Meeting 39: Texas Tech University, February 22-24, 2008

Ian Anderson*, Utah State University
Superposition formulas for differential systems

Ian Anderson*, Utah State University
Differential geometry with Maple

Sun-Yung Alice Chang*, Princeton University
Compactness of conformally compact Einstein manifolds of dimension (3+1)

Vladimir Chernov*, Dartmouth College
Causality and linking in spacetimes

Richard Melrose*, MIT
Adiabatic limits and Morse decomposition

Emma Previato*, Boston University
Theta functions and isospectral manifolds

Ken Richardson, TCU
Desingularizing compact Lie group actions

Colleen Robles, Texas A&M University
Rigidity of projective homogeneous varieties

Adam Sikora*, SUNY Buffalo
Quantizations of character varieties and knot theory

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