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## Von Neumann Symposium on Complex Geometry, Calibrations, and Special Holonomy August 11, 2003 - August 20, 2003

Aug 11, 2003
Monday
 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Morning Tea 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Welcome, Orientation, Announcements, Resigstration Andrew Lucas 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Holonomy 1 Robert Bryant (Duke University) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Complex Geometry 1 Zhiqin Lu (University of California, Irvine) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Afternoon Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Gauge Theory 1 Richard Thomas (Imperial College, London)
Aug 12, 2003
Tuesday
 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Morning Tea 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Holonomy 2 Robert Bryant (Duke University) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Calibrations 1 H. Blaine Lawson (State University of New York, Stony Brook) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Complex Geometry 2 Zhiqin Lu (University of California, Irvine) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Afternoon Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Gauge Theory 2 Richard Thomas (Imperial College, London)
Aug 13, 2003
Wednesday
 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Morning Tea 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Holonomy 3 Robert Bryant (Duke University) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Calibrations 2 H. Blaine Lawson (State University of New York, Stony Brook) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Complex Geometry 3 Zhiqin Lu (University of California, Irvine) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Afternoon Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Gauge Theory 3 Charles Thomas
Aug 14, 2003
Thursday
 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Morning Tea 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Holonomy 4 Robert Bryant (Duke University) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Calibrations 3 H. Blaine Lawson (State University of New York, Stony Brook) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Complex Geometry 4 Zhiqin Lu (University of California, Irvine) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Afternoon Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Gauge Theory 4 Charles Thomas
Aug 15, 2003
Friday
 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Morning Tea 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Kahler metrics and holomorphic foliations Gang Tian (Princeton University) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Calibrated submanifolds with boundary: compact special Legendrian surfaces in $$S^5$$ Sung Wang 11:30 AM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Representations of surface groups and Hermitian symetric spaces Oscar Garcia-Prada (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Afternoon Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM The geometric complexity of special Lagrangian cones Mark Haskins (Imperial College, London)
Aug 16, 2003
Saturday
 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Morning Tea 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Closed ${\rm G}_2$ structures Robert Bryant (Duke University) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Crepant resolutions of Calabi-Yau orbifolds Anda Degeratu (Universität Stuttgart) 11:30 AM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Second order families of special Lagrangian 4-folds Eleny-Nicoleta Ionel (Stanford University) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Afternoon Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Deformations of Sturctures on Manifolds Spiros Karigiannis
Aug 18, 2003
Monday
 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Morning Tea 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM The geometry of representations of surface groups in $$SL(n,R)$$ François Labourie (Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Instantos and Lagrangians on manifolds with vector cross Naichung Leung 11:30 AM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Flat Lagrangian submanifolds in $$C^n$$ and $$CP^n$$ xiaowei wang (Rutgers University) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Afternoon Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Constructing $${\rm G}_2$$-metrics from nearly K\"ahler manifolds Shengli Kong
Aug 19, 2003
Tuesday
 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Morning Tea 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM On a nonlinear Dirac equation and constant mean curvature surfaces Bernd Ammann (Universität Regensburg) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Examples of associative, co-associative, and Cayley submanifolds Weiqing Gu 11:30 AM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Volume minimizing cycles in compact Lie groups Xiaobo Liu 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Afternoon Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Constant scalar curvature metrics and the stability of Constant scalar curvature metrics and the stability of algebraic varieties Richard Thomas (Imperial College, London)
Aug 20, 2003
Wednesday
 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Morning Tea 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Minimal Lagrangian tori in CP^2 come in real families of every dimension Emma Carberry 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Generalized Hodge metrics and BCOV torsion Zhiqin Lu (University of California, Irvine)