Conference Schedule

All lectures are in Blocker 166

Friday, November 8

4:30-5:00 pm Registration Blocker 141
5:00-5:50 pm The talk intended to graduate students : Robert Bryant (Duke University)-- Curvature-homogeneous Riemannian manifolds
Blocker 166
5:50-6:40 pm Dinner (provided by us) Hallway near Blocker 141
6:40-7:30 pm David Fisher (Rice University) - Finiteness of Totally Geodesic Submanifolds Blocker 166

Saturday, November 9

8:30-9:00 am Registration / Coffee & Pastries Blocker 140
9:00-9:50 am Wolfgang Ziller (University of Pennsylvania) - Smoothness conditions under the assumption of an isometric group action Blocker 166
9:50-10:20 am Coffee Break Blocker 140
10:20-11:10 am Pavel Mnev (University of Notre Dame) - From Morse theory (via Fukaya-Morse A-infinity category) to Feynman diagrams Blocker 166
11:20 am - 12:10 pm Christine Lee (Texas State University) - A topological model for the HOMFLY-PT polynomial Blocker 166
12:10-2:00 pm Lunch (on your own)
2:00-2:50 pm Dmitri Pavlov (Texas Tech University) - The classification of two-dimensional extended nontopological field theories Blocker 166
3:00-3:50 pm Ian Anderson (Utah State University) - Intransitive Symmetry Groups of 2-Plane Distributions and Darboux Integrable f-Gordon Equations Blocker 166
3:50-4:20 pm Coffee Break Blocker 140
4:20-5:30 pm Poster Session Blocker 140
6:30 pm Banquet Cef Cao

Sunday, November 10

8:00-8:30 am Coffee and Pastries Blocker 140
8:30-9:20 am Jinmin Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) - Scalar-mean rigidity theorem of compact manifolds with boundary Blocker 166
9:30-10:20 am Robert Bryant (Duke University) - Curvature-homogeneous hypersurfaces in space forms Blocker 166
10:20-10:40 am Coffee Break Blocker 140
10:40-11:30 am Jaroslaw Buczynski (Institute of Mathematics of Polish Academy of Sciences, IMPAN) - Three stories of Riemannian and holomorphic manifolds Blocker 166
11:40 am - 12:30 pm  Shelly Harvey (Rice University) - Metric spaces on concordance classes of knots Blocker 166