Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, November 12-14, 2010

Conference Schedule

Friday, November 12

4:30 p.m Table outside Blocker 166
Registration opens.

5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Blocker 166
Special talk suitable for graduate students
Gerard Besson, Université de Grenoble
    The Geometrization Program (Abstract)

6:00 - 7:45 p.m. Blocker 148
Registration and complimentary buffet.

8:00 - 9:00 pm Blocker 166
Phillip Griffiths, Institute for Advanced Study
    Hodge theory and representation theory (Abstract)

Saturday, November 13

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Blocker 166
Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Blocker 166
Jun-Muk Hwang, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
    Symmetries of cone structures (Abstract)

10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Blocker 148
Break and snacks. Registration continues.

10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Blocker 166
Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto
    Real loci of based loop groups (Abstract)

11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own

1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Blocker 166
Peter Ebenfelt, UC San Diego
    Rigidity of CR mappings into hyperquadrics (Abstract)

2:30 - 3:00 p.m. Blocker 148
Break and snacks

3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Blocker 166
Gerard Besson, Université de Grenoble
    Collapsing irreducile manifolds with nontrivial fundamental group (Abstract)

4:00 - 4:30 p.m. Blocker 148
Break and snacks

4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Blocker 166
Gunther Uhlmann, University of California, Irvine, and University of Washington
    Boundary rigidity, lens rigidity and travel time tomography (Abstract)

7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Conference Banquet (Chef Cao's Restaurant)

Sunday, November 14

9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Blocker 166
Continental breakfast

9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Blocker 166
Chuu-Lian Terng, UC Irvine
    Isometric immersions of hyperbolic manifolds in Euclidean space, revisited (Abstract)

10:30 - 11:00 p.m. Blocker 148
Break and snacks

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Blocker 166
Robert Bryant, MSRI
    The affine Bonnet problem (Abstract)