Southeast Geometry Seminar

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The Southeast Geometry Seminar (SGS) is a new semiannual series of one day events sponsored jointly by:
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of Alabama at Birmingham

The organizers are: John McCuan (GIT), Alex Freire (UTK), Gilbert Weinstein (UAB), and Sumio Yamada (UAB).

SGS II: Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Georgia Institute of Technology

All lectures will take place in the Skiles Building, Room 10 (Ground Floor)

9:00 AM - Coffee and refreshments
9:30 AM - 10:20 AM
Vladimir Oliker (Emory University)
Starshaped Compact Hypersurfaces With a Prescribed Function of Principal Curvatures

Abstract
 
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Plenary Speaker: Gang Tian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
New progress on Einstein metrics

Abstract: TBA

 
11:30 AM - 1:20 AM
Lunch
 

Afternoon Session:

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM
Henghui Zou (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Existence and Non-Existence for Cooperative Elliptic Systems

Abstract: TBA
 
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM
Wilfrid Gangbo (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Difficulties arising in the study of Michell trusses

Abstract
 
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM
Victor Patrangenaru (Georgia State University)
On the 3D Riemannian Homogeneous Spaces of Positive Sectional Curvature

Abstract: We give a simple description of the moduli spaces of isometry classes of three dimensional simply connected Riemannian homogeneous manifolds of positive sectional curvature, and of isometry classes of Riemannian homogeneous structures of positive sectional curvature on RP3. A variant of the Poincaré conjecture is also formulated.

 
4:30 PM - 5:20 PM
Jason Cantarella (University of Georgia)
Ropelength-critical knots

Abstract: TBA