Twelfth Midwest Geometry Conference:

Detailed Information

Robertson-Sayre Hall, University of North Dakota

Putnam Hall, North Dakota State University

Conference Schedule

The conference schedule is subject to change. All activities will take place on the second floor of the Memorial Union on the University of North Dakota campus. All eleven talks will be in the Fred Orth Lecture Bowl. The banquet and the session on Future Directions will take place in the River Valley Room and the Sioux Room, respectively. Refreshments will be available in the Sioux Room throughout most of the conference. The Memorial Union is building 72 on the campus map.

Friday, April 26 (afternoon session)

12:30-1:30 Registration
1:30-2:30 C. Robin Graham, University of Washington
Title: Conformal Invariants and Poincaré Metrics
2:30-3:00 Break
3:00-4:00 Bernhard Krötz, Ohio State University
Title: Holomorphic aspects of harmonic analysis on Riemannian symmetric spaces
4:00-4:30 Break
4:30-5:30 Jiri Dadok, Indiana University
Title: Geometry of small representations of compact Lie groups

Saturday, April 27 (morning session)

8:00-9:00 Sigurd Angenent, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Precise Asymptotics for Singularities in Harmonic Map Flow
9:00-9:30 Break
9:30-10:30 Matt Gursky, University of Notre Dame
Title: A new variational characterization of 3-dimensional space forms
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Bennett Chow, University of California, San Diego
Title: A pinching estimate for the linearized Ricci flow

Saturday, April 27 (afternoon session)

1:30-2:30 Abhay Ashtekar, Penn State University, Physics Department
Title: Quantum Geometry and Its Applications
2:30-3:00 Break
3:00-4:00 Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Knots and Functional Integration without Integration
4:00-4:30 Break
4:30-5:30 Jack Morava, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Cobordism categories and evolution equations

Saturday, April 27 (evening activities)

7:00-8:00 Conference Dinner. Doors open at 6:45.
Location: River Valley Room
8:00-8:45 Session on Future Directions
Location: Sioux Room
Moderators: Tom Branson and Bob Stanton

Sunday, April 28 (morning session)

8:00-9:00 Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Physics Department
Title: Covariant quantization of superstrings
9:00-9:30 Break
9:30-10:30 Andrew Waldron, University of California, Davis
Title: Mass, Spin and (Anti) de Sitter Space

Poster Session

The conference poster session will be in the Sioux Room of the Memorial Union. Space will be available for speakers and participants to post abstracts, short papers, and similar items.

Conference Dinner

All speakers and participants are invited to a free evening dinner in the River Valley Room of the Memorial Union at 7:00 P.M. on Saturday, April 27. Refreshments will be available in the Sioux Room of the Memorial Union throughout most of the conference.

Internet Access

Conference speakers and participants may access the internet at the computer labs located on the third floor and lower level of the Memorial Union as well as on the third floor of the Chester Fritz Library. The Chester Fritz Library is building 29 on the campus map and is located about one block west of the Memorial Union on University Avenue. All of these labs have Web browsers as well as telnet capability. Signs at each lab indicate that the labs are to be used only by University of North Dakota faculty and students. The university computer lab manager, however, has granted Midwest Geometry Conference speakers and participants permission to use the above three labs for internet access on April 26, 27, and 28, 2002. The lab manager will alert the lab monitors to this fact. The Chester Fritz lab and the lab in the lower level of the Union are closed on Sunday mornings.

Warm-Up Talks

Larry Peterson will present two very elementary “warm-up” talks aimed at beginning graduate students. These talks will take place on Thursday, April 18 and Tuesday, April 23. Both talks will take place at 3:30 P.M. in Room 309 of Witmer Hall and are entitled “Foundations of Modern Geometry.” These talks will cover a few of the basic terms and concepts that will arise during the conference.

Bill Schwalm will also present an introductory talk entitled “Physics and Knots” at 4:00 P.M. on Monday, April 22, in Room 115, Witmer Hall.

Announcements posted in Witmer Hall will provide additional information on all of these talks.

Web Site Information and Return Links

Contact person: Larry Peterson
E-mail: lawrence_peterson@und.nodak.edu
Phone: (701) 777-4609
Date of most recent update: August 13, 2002

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Twelfth Midwest Geometry Conference: Detailed Information