1998 Midwest Geometry Conference
Louisiana State University

 

The 1998 Midwest Geometry Conference took place at Louisiana State University on October 23, 24, and 25, 1998.

Organizing Committee:

T. Branson, G. Ólafsson (Chair), A. Sengupta, and L. Smolinsky

Program:

Friday afternoon, October 23: Integral Geometry
Organizer: G. Ólafsson
02:00-03:00 S. Helgason Range questions for Radon transforms
03:00-03:30 Discussion
03:30-04:30 B. Hall Segal-Bargmann transform and Toeplitz operators for groups
04:30-05:30 E.T. Quinto Tomography, integral geometry, and microlocal analysis
 
Saturday morning, Oct. 24: Geometric Inequalities
Organizer: T. Branson
08:30-09:30 W. Beckner Geometric inequalities and eigenvalue estimates
09:30-10:00 Discussion
10:00-11:00 M. Loss On the Laplace operator penalized by mean curvature
11:00-12:00 E. Lieb Bounds on the Laplacian and eigenvalues of the Schroedinger operator
 
Saturday afternoon, Oct. 24: Integrable Systems
Organizer: L. Smolinsky
02:00-03:00 M. Adler Uses of symmetries of integrable systems
03:00-03:30 Discussion
03:30-04:30 A. McDaniel Lax equations and Prym-Tjurin varieties
04:30-05:30 Chuu-Lian Terng Submanifold geometry and soliton equations
 
Sunday morning, Oct. 25: Low-Dimensional Gauge Theory
Organizer: A. Sengupta
08:30-9:30 S. Sawin
09:30-10:00 Discussion
10:00-11:00 A. Ashtekar Three dimensional quantum gravity: A diffeomorphism invariant theory of connections
11:00-12:00 R. Forman A combinatorial approach to Ricci curvature

Notes on Web Page

Contact Person: Larry Peterson
E-mail: lawrence.peterson@und.nodak.edu
Phone: (701) 777-4609
Date of most recent update: 19 May 2006

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