Southeast Geometry Conference Schedule

Saturday, March 4

8:30

Coffee/Refreshments

9:00

Gordon Craig (Bishop's University), Dehn Filling and Asymptotically Hyperbolic Einstein manifolds

10:00

Aissa Wade (Penn State University), Dirac Fibrations

11:00

Mark Stern (Duke University),  Index theory from a de Rham perspective.

12:00

Lunch Break

1:40

Marianty Ionel (University of Toledo), Special Lagrangians in the deformed and resolved conifolds

2:40

Fernando Schwartz (Duke University), Yamabe problem on noncompact manifolds with boundary

3:30
Coffee Break

3:40

Jeanne Clelland (University of Colorado), Sub-Finsler Geometry in Dimensions 3 and 4

4:40

Calin Agut (U.T. El Paso), On special classes of submanifolds in contact metric manifolds with a nullity condition

5:30

Dinner

8:00

Poster Session


Sunday, March 5

8:30

Coffee/Refreshments

9:00

Gilbert Weinstein (University of Alabama), Minimal Surfaces with a Free Elastic Boundary

10:00

Conrad Plaut (University of Tennessee), Generalized Universal Covers of Metric Spaces

11:00

Valera Berestovskii (U. Tennessee/Omsk State University), Dimensions of R-trees and self-similar fractal spaces of nonpositive curvature

12:00

Lunch Break

1:00

John McCuan (Georgia Tech), A variational formula for floating bodies and the criticality of planar capillary interfaces

2:00

Jason Parsley (University of Georgia), The geometry of the Taylor problem in plasma physics


Abstracts are available for some of the talks.

Notes:  All talks will be in room 207 of the Tate Center on Liberty Street. Coffee will be served in room 211 across the hall. Preprints and graduate student posters will be on display in the lobby throughout the conference, and a special "Q&A" session has been arranged for Saturday evening at 8pm; poster authors should be on hand to answer any questions.  For more information, see
http://www.math.cofc.edu/SEGC/default.html

Organizers: Thomas Ivey (iveyt@cofc.edu), Alex Kasman (kasmana@cofc.edu)
SEGC06 is supported by the National Science Foundation and by the Department of Mathematics at the College of Charleston.



Links: SEGC Main Page / Math Department / College of Charleston