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26th ANNUAL GEOMETRY FESTIVAL
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Friday April 15 – Sunday April 17, 2011
The 26th Annual Geometry Festival will be held at the Department of Mathematics
of the University of Pennsylvania, from Friday afternoon April 15 to Sunday
noon April 17, 2011.
It will be in honor of Eugenio Calabi, on the occasion of his 88th birthday.
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Hubert Bray |
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Duke University |
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"On dark matter, spiral galaxies, and the axioms of general relativity"
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Toby Colding |
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MIT |
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"Generic mean curvature flow"
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Claude LeBrun |
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SUNY Stony Brook |
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"On Hermitian Einstein 4-manifolds"
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Shing-Tung Yau |
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Harvard University |
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"Quasi-local mass in general relativity"
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Natasa Sesum |
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Rutgers University |
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"Yamabe solitons"
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Pete Storm |
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Jane Street Capital |
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"Infinitesimal rigidity of hyperbolic manifolds with totally geodesic boundary"
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Brian Weber |
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU |
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"Regularity and convergence of extremal Kaehler metrics"
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Shing-Tung Yau |
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Harvard University |
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"An appreciation of Eugenio Calabi and his work,"
tentatively scheduled for the Saturday evening banquet after the meal. |
The Mathematics Department is located on the fourth floor of David Rittenhouse Laboratory, on the southeast corner of 33rd and Walnut Streets. The main entrance to the building is on 33rd Street.
Everyone is invited to the Geometry Festival, and graduate students are especially encouraged to attend. Please see the section on Financial Support for information about this.
Geometry Festival Organizing Committee: Ryan Blair, Jonathan Block, Chris Croke, Dennis DeTurck, Rob Ghrist, Herman Gluck, Jeff Jauregui, Jerry Kazdan, Rob Kusner, Radmila Sazdanovic, Julius Shaneson, Clayton Shonkwiler, James Stasheff, Shea Vela-Vick, Will Wylie, Wolfgang Ziller.
Please direct inquires to Herman Gluck at gluck@math.upenn.edu or call the Mathematics Department at 215-898-8627 and ask for Monica Pallanti.
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Karl Friedrich Gauss
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
Shiing-shen Chern
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