UW Differential Geometry/PDE Seminar
Spring 2004
The seminar usually meets on Thursdays from 1:30-2:30 in Padelford C-36.
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available.
Thursday, April 1 at 1:30 PM in PDL C-36
Daniel Pollack
(UW)
Initial data engineering
Thursday, April 15 at 1:30 PM in PDL C-36
Robert Kusner
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst and MSRI)
Criticality for ropelength of knots and links
Thursday, April 22 at 1:30 PM in PDL C-36
Peng Lu
(University of Oregon)
Ricci flow preserves the isometry group
Thursday, April 22 at 3:00 PM in THO 202
(Note: Special time and room!)
Ben Chow
(University of California, San Diego)
Monotonicity formulas for geometric flows
Wednesday, May 12 at 4:00 PM in THO 202 (Note: Special day, time and room!)
Michael Douglas
(Rutgers University)
Critical points and supersymmetric vacua
Thursday, May 13 at 1:30 PM in PDL C-36
Jack Lee
(UW)
Boundary regularity of conformally compact Einstein metrics
SPECIAL LECTURE: Monday, May 17 at 4:00 PM in THO 234 (Note: Special day, time and room!)
Gang Tian
(Princeton and MIT)
Rigidity of asymptotically hyperbolic spaces
Tuesday, May 18 at 4:00 PM in Smith 211 (Mathematics and Graduate School Colloquium)
Abhay Ashtekar
(Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Pennsylvania State University)
How Black Holes Grow: A Monotonicity Forumula in Riemannian Geometry
Thursday, May 20 at 1:30 PM in PDL C-36 (joint with Math-Physics String Theory Seminar)
Abhay Ashtekar
(Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Pennsylvania State University)
A background independent approach to quantum gravity
Thursday, May 27 at 1:30 PM in PDL C-36
Lihe Wang
(University of Iowa)
Geometric view points for estimates of elliptic equations
Thursday, June 3 at 1:30 PM in PDL C-36
Tatiana Toro
(UW)
Stability of Lewis and Vogel's result
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