Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar

Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, 2022

All talks will be in Bannan 401.

Abstracts can be found here.

Saturday, November 5
8:45 - 9:15	Coffee and snacks near Bannan 401
9:15 - 10:15	Jackson Goodman (University of California at Berkeley) New obstructions to positivity of curvature via twisted spinors
10:30 - 11:30	Erin Griffin (Seattle Pacific University) The Case for a General q-flow: An Investigation of Ambient Obstruction Solitons
11:30 - 1:30	Lunch (Suggestions for restaurants near campus will be provided.)
1:30 - 2:30	Frédéric Rochon (Université du Québec à Montréal) L²-cohomology of quasi-fibered boundary metrics
2:30 - 3:00	Coffee
3:00 - 4:00	Paul Allen (Lewis and Clark College) The Asymptotially Hyperbolic Yamabe Problem in the Sobolev Category (Laura Frederickson's talk cancelled due to illness)
4:15 - 5:15	Sébastien Picard (University of British Columbia) Non-Kähler Transitions of Calabi-Yau Threefolds
6:30 - 8:30	Banquet at Tamarind Tree (for those that selected this option during registration)
Sunday, November 6
8:45 - 9:15	Coffee and snacks near Bannan 401
9:15 - 10:15	Liz Stanhope (Lewis and Clark College) Using Hodge spectra to detect orbifold singularities
10:30 - 11:30	Claude LeBrun (Stony Brook University) Curvature in the balance: The Weyl functional and scalar curvature of 4-manifolds (Lecture slides)

Funding for this meeting is provided by the NSF.

Registration: There is no cost for attending the seminar, but we do ask all participants to please register so that we can plan appropriately.

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Travel reimbursements for participants
(Note that the deadline for requesting travel funds for this meeting has passed. Please direct questions about reimbursement to Boris Botvinnik (botvinn@uoregon.edu)

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