MSRI: Spring 2004
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Von Neumann Symposium on Complex Geometry, Calibrations, and Special Holonomy
August 11 - 20, 2003
- Robert Bryant: Holonomy, I
- Zhiqin Lu: Complex Geometry, I
- Richard Thomas: Gauge Theory, I
- Robert Bryant: Holonomy, II
- H. Blaine Lawson: Calibrations, I
- Zhiqin Lu: Complex Geometry, II
- Richard Thomas: Gauge Theory, II
- Robert Bryant: Holonomy, III
- H. Blaine Lawson: Calibrations, II
- Zhiqin Lu: Complex Geometry, III
- Richard Thomas: Gauge Theory, III
- Robert Bryant: Holonomy, IV
- H. Blaine Lawson: Calibrations, III
- Zhiqin Lu: Complex Geometry, IV
- Richard Thomas: Gauge Theory, IV
- Gang Tian: Kahler Metrics and Holomorphic Foliations
- Sung Ho Wang: Calibrated Submanifolds with Boundary: Compact Special Legendrian Surfaces in S^2
- Oscar Garcia-Prada: Representations of Surface Groups and Hermitian Symmetric Spaces
- Mark Haskins: The Geometric Complexity of Special Lagrangian T^2-cones
- Robert Bryant: Closed G_5 Stuctures
- Anda Degeratu: Crepant Resolutions of Calabi-Yau Orbifolds
- Marianty Ionel: Second Order Families of Special Lagrangian 4-Folds
- Spiros Karigiannis: Deformations of G_2 Structures on Manifolds
- Francois Labourie: The Geometry of Representations of Surface Groups in SL(n,R)
- Naichung Conan Leung: Instantons and Lagrangians on Manifolds with Vector Cross Products
- Erxiao Wang: Flat Lagrangian Submanifolds in C^n and CP^n
- Eun Bae Kong: Constructing G_2-Metrics from Nearly Kahler Manifolds
- Bernd Ammann: On a Nonlinear Dirac Equation and Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces
- Wiqing Gu: Examples of Associative, Co-associative and Cayley Submanifolds
- X. Liu: Volume Minimizing Cycles in Compact Lie Gorups
- Richard Thomas: Constant Scalar Curvature Metrics and the Stability of Algebraic Varieties
- Emma Carberry: Minimal Lagrangian Tori in CP^2 Come in Real Families of Every Dimension
- Zhiqin Lu: Generalized Hodge Metrics and BCOV Torsion
Introductory Workshop in Discrete and Computational Geometry
August 20 - 29, 2003
- Jeff Lagarias: Quasicrystals and Discrete Geometry
- Joel Hass: Minimal Surfaces and Normal Surfaces in 3-Manifolds, I
- Erik Demaine: Folding and Unfolding: Linkage Folding
- Bernd Sturmfels: Tropical Geometry, I
- Joel Hass: Minimal Surfaces and Normal Surfaces in 3-Manifolds, II
- Jeff Lagarias: Density of Sphere Packings
- Erik Demaine: Folding and Unfolding: Computational Origami
- Bernd Sturmfels: Tropical Geometry, II
- Ron Graham: Euclidean Ramsey Theory
- Gunter Ziegler: 4-Dimensional Polytopes, I
- Ron Graham: Packing Equal Discs in Planar Regions
- Joe O'Rourke: Folding and Unfolding: Folding Polygons to Convex
- Gunter Ziegler: 4-Dimensional Polytopes, II
- Emo Welzl: k-Sets and j-Facets
- Joe O'Rourke: Folding and Unfolding: Unfolding Polyhedra
- Gil Kalai: Graphs and Skeleta of Polytopes, I
- David Eppstein: Computational Geometry and Robust Statistics
- Richard Gardner: Discrete Tomography: A Survey
- Imre Barany: Algebraic Topology Applied in Geometry
- Gil Kalai: Graphs and Skeleta of Polytopes, II
- David Eppstein: Hyperbolic Geometry, Moebius Transformations and Geometric Optimization
- Richard Gardner: Reconstruction of Convex Bodies from Brightness Functions
- Robin Forman: Topics in Combinatorial Differntial Geometry, I
- Nina Amenta: Finding Objects in the Delaunay Triangulation
- Janos Pach: Geometric Graph Theory, I
- Alexander Barvinok: Complexity of Convex Bodies in Higher Dimensions, I
- Robin Forman: Topics in Combinatorial Differential Geometry, II
- Nina Amenta: Actually Doing It: Algorithms and Programs for 3D Delaunay Triangulation
- Janos Pach: Geometric Graph Theory, II
- Alexander Barvinok: Complexity of Convex Bodies in Higher Dimensions, II
Mathematical Foundations of Geometric Algorithms
October 13 - 17, 2003
- David Mount: Approximate Voronoi diagrams
- Nina Amenta: Complexity and computation of 3D Delaunay triangulations
- Jonathan Shewchuk: Anisotropic Voronoi diagrams and guaranteed-quality anisotropic mesh generation
- Jack Snoeyink: Pragmatic point ordering for Delaunay tessellation in 3D and 4D
- Shakhar Smorodinsky: On conflict-free colorings
- Pankaj Agarwal: Geometric approximation using core sets
- Sariel Har-Peled: On core sets and shape fitting in high dimensions
- Joseph Mitchell: On some geometric optimal path and network problems
- Leonidas Guibas: What is new with kinetic data structuers?
- Subhash Suri: Problems on the interface of geometry and economics
- Bernd Gartner: Linear algebra and LP-type problems
- Marie-Francoise Roy: Bernstein basis and real root isolation
- Thorsten Theobald: Computational complexity of stabbing, visibility and radii computations
- Boris Aronov: Efficient algorithms for bichromatic separability
- Santosh Vempala: How to compute the volume?
- Eti Ezra: Output-sensitive construction of the union of triangles
- Adrian Dumitrescu: Monotone paths in line arrangements with a small number of directions
- Kasturi Varadarajan: Bipartite perfect matching in the plane
- Yusu Wang: Capturing topological and geometric features of molecular surfaces for protein docking
- Patrice Koehl: Protein shape descriptors
- Timothy Chan: Approximation algorithms for diameter, width, and related problems
- Csaba Toth: Binary space partitions -- latest developments
- Uli Wagner: Learning about manifolds from samples
- Yi-Jen Chiang: Progressive simplification of tetrahedral meshes preserving all isosurface topologies
- Bernard Chazelle: Geometric computing with uncertain, missing, or overabundant data
Combinatorial and Discrete Geometry
November 17 - 21, 2003
- Emo Welzl: The generalized lower bound theorem for polytopes and j-facets for finite point sets
- Kevin Woods: Generating functions for sets of lattice points
- Francisco Santos: Minimal tringulations and the computation of Gromov's norm
- Ileana Streinu: Points in motion
- Julian Pfeifle: Coefficients and zeros of Ehrhart polynomials
- Oleg Musin: The kissing number in dimension 4
- Henry Cohn: Optimality of the Leech lattice among lattices
- Wlodzimierz Kuperberg: Two problems on configurations of unit cylinders around the unit sphere
- L. Bowen: Periodicity and Sphere packings of hyperbolic space
- Jeffrey Lagarias: Apollonian packings: geometry and group theory
- John Sullivan: Discrete minimal surfaces in the cubic lattice
- Alexander Bobenko: Geometry from combinatorics: Surfaces made from circles
- Gunter Rote: The polytope of pointed pseudotriangulations and Delone and anti-Delone pseudotriangulations
- Bernd Sturmfels: The geometry of statistical models for biological sequences
- Michael Develin: The tropical rank of a matrix
- Michael Joswig: On convex hulls
- Rom Pinchasi: Problems concerning directions of lines and planes in Euclidean spaces
- Jozsef Solymosi: Extremal arrangements of points and hyperplanes
- Meir Katchalski: On forbidden families of geometric permutations in R^d
- Peter Brass: On simplices spanned by points in 3-dimensional space
- Richard Pollack: Betti number bounds and their applications
- Geza Toth: Turan-type results for geometric and topological graphs
- Karoly Bezdek: Monotonicity of the perimeter of intersection of unit disks -- a proof of Alexander's conjecture
- Gabor Tardos: Locally plane graphs and excluded submatrices
- Louis Billera: Geometric enumeration from a quasisymmetric point of view
- Van Vu: Erdo distinct distances problem
- Richard Ehrenborg: Lifting inequalities for polytopes
- Eva Maria Feichtner: A desingularization of real diffeomorphic actions of finite groups
- Martin Henk: Polynomial inequalities representing polyhedra
- Jiri Matousek: Discrepancy -- a short problem list
Simons Lectures
Geometric Analysis
December 1 - 5, 2003
- Harold Donnelly: Spectral theory for tensor products of Hermitian holomorphic line bundles, I
- Bo Guan: The Plateau problem for locally convex hypersurfaces
- Richard Wentworth: The Yang-Mills flow on Kaehler surfaces
- Peng-Fei Guan: Conformal deformation of smallest eigenvalues of the Ricci tensor
- Mu-Tao Wang: Minimal surface systems in higher codimension
- Jiaping Wang: Kaehler manifolds with positive spectrum
- Jeff Viaclovsky: Bach-flat asymptotically locally Euclidean metrics
- Gang Tian: K-stability and Kaehler metrics of constant scalar curvature
- Mohan Ramachandran: Elementary construction of subharmonic functions on open manifolds
- John Loftin: Singular semi-flat Calabi-Yau metrics on S^2
- Yu Yuan: Homogeneous solutions to elliptic equations
- Rafe Mazzeo: Positive scalar curvature and Poincare-Einstein fillings
- Xiu-Xiong Chen: The space of Kaehler potentials
- Tristan Riviere: The singular set of 1-1 integral currents
- Lei Ni: Monotonicity and holomorphic functions on complete Kaehler manifolds
- Leon Simon: The symmetric minimal surface equation
- Brian White: Aspects of Mean Curvature Flow
- Changyou Wang: Regulatrity of biharmonic maps into Riemannian manifolds
Ricci Flow and Geometrization of 3-Manifolds
December 15 - 19, 2003
- Misha Kapovich: Thurston's Geometrization conjecture and its consequences
- Ben Chow: A Ricci flow primer
- Bruce Kleiner: An overview of Perelman's argument for geometrization using Hamilton's Ricci flow
- Peng Lu: Perelman's L-funtion and (non)collapsing
- Lei Ni: Ancient solutions with nonnegative curvature
- Toby Colding: Finite time extinction for manifolds without aspherical summands
- Takashi Shioya: Collapsing with a lower curvature bound
- Richard Hamilton: Ricci Flow
- Lei Ni: Kahler Ricci flow
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