Chern Centennial Conference
Oct 30, 2011
to
Nov 4, 2011
Organizer(s)
Robert Bryant (Co-Chair, Mathematical Science Research Institute - MSRI), Yiming Long (Co-Chair, Chern Institute of Mathematics - CIM), Hélène Barcelo (Mathematical Science Research Institute - MSRI), May Chu (S. S. Chern Foundation for Mathematical Research), and Lei Fu (Chern Institute of Mathematics - CIM).
Chern Institute of Mathematics (CIM) in Tianjin, China, celebrates the centennial of the birth of Shiing-Shen Chern, one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century and MSRI's co-founder. In commemoration of Chern's work, MSRI and CIM will hold a two-week international mathematics conference. During the first week, October 24 to 28, 2011, the conference will take place at CIM in Tianjin.
During the second week, October 30 – November 4, 2011, the conference will take place at MSRI in Berkeley, CA. The opening reception on Sunday, October 30 will include the unveiling of a commissioned statue of Chern, and will feature the world premiere of the film about his life, “Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-Shen Chern”.
Phillip Griffiths and Wentsun Wu Academic Committee Members List of topics (with chair of committee)More Information about the Conference Download the poster for the Conference
Further details and contact information for the first week can be accessed on the CIM workshop homepage . Accommodations
Schedule
Sunday, October 30, 2011
4:00PM - 6:15PM
MSRI, Atrium
Welcome Reception / Unveiling of Chern Statue
[Video available ]
6:15PM - 7:30PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
World Premiere of "Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-Shen Chern"
[Video available ]
Monday, October 31, 2011
8:30AM - 9:30AM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Reminiscences - James Simons
[Video available ]
9:30AM - 10:30AM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Kenji Fukaya
Open-Closed Gromov-Witten theory and Floer homology
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
10:30AM - 11:00AM
MSRI, Atrium
Tea
11:00AM - 12:00PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Mark Gross - Mirror symmetry and tropical geometry
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
12:00PM - 2:00PM
MSRI, Atrium
Lunch
2:00PM - 2:45PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Joel Fine
The diversity of symplectic 6-manifolds with vanishing first Chern class
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
2:45PM - 3:30PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Toshiyuki Kobayashi
Analysis on pseudo-Riemannian locally symmetric spaces
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
3:30PM - 4:00PM
MSRI, Atrium
Tea
4:00PM - 4:45PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Jian Song - Kahler-Ricci flow and analytic minimal model program
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
8:30AM - 9:30AM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Gang Tian - Curavture flow on symplectic manifolds
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
9:30AM - 10:30AM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Clara Löh
Functorial semi-norms in homology and geometry
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
10:30AM - 11:00AM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Tea
11:00AM - 12:00PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Rahul Pandharipande - The tautological ring of the moduli space of curves
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
12:00PM - 2:00PM
MSRI, Atrium
Lunch
2:00PM - 2:45PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Jeanne Clelland
Equivalence of geometric structures in control theory via moving frames
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
2:45PM - 3:30PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
SONG SUN
Compact Sasaki manifolds with positive transverse bisectional curvature
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
3:30PM - 4:00PM
MSRI, Atrium
Tea
4:00PM - 4:45PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Valentino Tosatti
Collapsing of abelian fibred Calabi-Yaus and hyperkahler mirror symmetry
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Abstract
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6:30PM - 9:00PM
MSRI
Banquet
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
8:30AM - 9:30AM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Dusa McDuff
Embedding problems in symplectic geometry
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
9:30AM - 10:30AM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Nigel Hitchin - Poisson geometry and bihermitian geometry
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
10:30AM - 11:00AM
MSRI, Atrium
Tea
11:00AM - 12:00PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Katrin Wendland
K3 surfaces and the Mathieu group $M_{24}$
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
12:00PM - 2:00PM
MSRI, Atrium
Lunch
2:00PM - 2:45PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Patrick Foulon - Finsler Geometry and Dynamics
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
2:45PM - 3:30PM
MSRI, Atrium
Fernando Marques
Scalar curvature: rigidity and nonrigidity results
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
3:30PM - 4:00PM
MSRI, Atrium
Tea
4:00PM - 4:45PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Michael Eastwood
Complexes of differential operators
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
Thursday, November 03, 2011
8:30AM - 9:30AM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Jeff Cheeger - Lower bounds on Ricci curvature and quantitative behavior of singular sets
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
9:30AM - 10:30AM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Tobias Colding - Harmonic functions and finite generation of fundamental groups
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
10:30AM - 11:00AM
MSRI, Atrium
Tea
11:00AM - 12:00PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Frank Pacard - Constant mean curvature surfaces in Riemannian manifolds
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
12:00PM - 2:00PM
MSRI, Atrium
Lunch
2:00PM - 2:45PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Bennett Chow
Some estimates for gradient Ricci solitons
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
2:45PM - 3:30PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Stefan Friedl - Symplectic 4-manifolds of the form S^1 x N
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
3:30PM - 4:00PM
MSRI, Atrium
Tea
4:00PM - 4:45PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Marco Gualtieri
On the construction of Lie groupoids
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
Friday, November 04, 2011
8:30AM - 9:30AM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Simon Brendle
Constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in deSitter-Schwarzschild space
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
9:30AM - 10:15AM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Jeff Streets - Geometric flows in complex geometry
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
10:15AM - 10:45AM
MSRI, Atrium
Tea
10:45AM - 11:30AM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Matthias Schwarz
Floer Homology and Loop Space Topology
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Abstract
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[Video available ]
11:30AM - 1:30PM
MSRI, Atrium
Lunch
1:30PM - 2:15PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Vincent Minerbe
Classification results for gravitational instantons
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[Video available ]
2:15PM - 3:00PM
MSRI, Simons Auditorium
Aaron Nabor - Quantitative Stratification and regularity for harmonic maps and minimal currents
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[Video available ]
3:00PM - 3:30PM
MSRI, Atrium
Tea
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