Pacific Northwest  Geometry Seminar 

2005 Spring Meeting

University of Washington 
Seattle, WA 

Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15, 2005  

Evening picture of Mount Rainier
Image © 1995 University of Washington, Computing & Communications.

Schedule

Saturday, May 14

10:00 - 11:00
Coffee and bagels
11:00 - 12:00
Rick Schoen (Stanford)
Global compactness theorems for the Yamabe problem
12:00 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 3:00
Guofang Wei (UC Santa Barbara)
On the Stability of Kähler-Einstein Metrics
3:00 - 3:30
Tea
3:30 - 4:30
Jeff Viaclovsky (MIT)
Volume growth and moduli spaces of critical Riemannian metrics
4:00 - 5:15 Open Problem Session 1 (Talks 1, 2, & 3)
6:30 Catered BBQ banquet at the home of Jack Lee & Pm Weizenbaum
Advance reservation required

Sunday, May 15

8:00 - 9:00
Coffee and bagels
9:00 - 10:00 Peng Lu (University of Oregon)
Ricci flow on locally homogeneous closed manifolds of dimension 4
10:00 - 11:00
Greg Galloway (University of Miami)
On the positivity of mass for asymptotically hyperbolic Riemannian manifolds
11:00 - 11:30
More Coffee & Bagels (add power bars...)
11:30 - 12:30
Peter Ozsváth (Columbia)
Heegaard diagrams and holomorphic disks
12:30 - 1:15
Open Problem Session 2 (Talks 4,5 & 6)

Location

Banquet

On Saturday evening, May 14, there will be a catered BBQ banquet at the home of Jack Lee and Pm Weizenbaum. (The address and directions will be given out at the meeting.) Advance reservations are required — please click here to make reservations.


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Jack Lee <lee@math.washington.edu>.