Conference Schedule

Friday, October 29

6:00 - 7:45 pm Blocker 602
Complimentary Buffet

8:00 - 9:00 pm  Blocker 158
Joseph Landsberg, Harvard University/Texas A&M University
On the complexity of matrix multiplication. (Abstract)

Saturday, October 30

8:00 - 9:00 am Blocker 156
Continental breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 am Blocker 158
Huai-Dong Cao, Lehigh University
Second variation of Perelman's entropies and stability of Ricci solitons. (Abstract)

10:30 - 11:30 am Blocker 158
Benson Farb, University of Chicago
Hidden symmetry. (Abstract)

11:30 am - 1:30 pm Lunch on your own

1:30 - 2:30 pm Blocker 158
Tobias Colding, New York University
The Calabi-Yau conjectures for embedded surfaces. (Abstract)

3:00 - 4:00 pm Blocker 158
Brian White, Stanford University
New applications of mean curvature flow to minimal surfaces. (Abstract)

4:30 - 5:30 pm Blocker 155
Simon Brendle, Princeton University
The concentration-compactness principle and the Yamabe flow in conformal geometry. (Abstract)

7:00 - 8:30 pm
Conference Banquet

Sunday, October 31

9:00 - 9:30 am Blocker 156
Continental breakfast

9:30 - 10:30 am Blocker 158
Charles Boyer, University of New Mexico
Einstein metrics on spheres. (Abstract)

11:00 am - 12:00 pm Blocker 158
Chiu-Chu Liu, Harvard University
Gromov-Witten invariants of toric Calabi-Yau threefolds. (Abstract)

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