Fall 2008 meeting of the PNGS

Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar

2008 Fall Meeting
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR
Saturday and Sunday
Oct 25 and 26, 2008

Schedule

Each scheduled talk includes time for a 15 minute "open problem" session at the end.

Saturday, Oct 25
10:00-11:00	Coffee/Tea and bagels
11:00-12:15	Karsten Grove (University of Notre Dame) Advances in positive curvature (Open Problems)
12:15-14:15	Lunch
14:15-15:30	Corey Hoelscher (Rutgers University) The topology of low dimensional cohomogeneity one manifolds (Open Problems)
15:30-16:00	Coffee/Tea
16:00-17:15	Iva Stavrov (Lewis & Clark College) On a gluing construction regarding "small bodies" in general relativity (Open Problems)
19:00	Dinner
Sunday, Oct 26
8:30-9:00	Coffee/Tea and bagels
9:00-10:15	David Glickenstein (University of Arizona) Ricci flow on 3D Lie groups and their quotients (Open Problems)
10:15-10:45	Coffee/Tea
10:45-12:00	Benjamin Weinkove (University of California, San Diego) The Kähler-Ricci flow on manifolds with positive first Chern class (Open Problems)

For more information about this meeting, contact Christine Escher (tine@math.orst.edu).

Send suggestions or corrections for this web page to Jack Lee (lee@math.washington.edu).