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Workshop on Flows, Foliations and Contact Structures

Dec
09
2015

Workshop on Flows, Foliations and Contact Structures

Convex surfaces and grid diagrams
Ivan Dynnikov
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101
I will speak about a simple way to represent surfaces in the three-space by diagrams similar to rectangular diagrams of links. A set of moves will be given by which one can connect any two diagrams representing isotopic surfaces. By forbidding some...
Dec
10
2015

Workshop on Flows, Foliations and Contact Structures

Contact homology and virtual fundamental cycles
10:00am|Simonyi Hall 101
Contact homology is a powerful invariant of contact manifolds introduced by Eliashberg--Givental--Hofer. The definition involves certain counts of pseudo-holomorphic curves, however these are usually only "virtual" counts since the moduli spaces of...
Dec
11
2015

Workshop on Flows, Foliations and Contact Structures

Taut co-oriented foliations
Rachel Roberts
10:00am|Simonyi Hall 101
Eliashberg and Thurston proved that the tangent plane field of any C2 taut oriented foliation F≠S1×S2 can be C0 approximated by a pair of particularly nice smooth contact structures. Kazez and Roberts proved that the requirement that F be C2 can be...

Workshop on Fundamental Groups and Periods

Workshop on Galois Representations and Automorphic Forms

Workshop on Geometric Functionals: Analysis and Applications

Mar
04
2019

Workshop on Geometric Functionals: Analysis and Applications

Compactness of conformally compact Einstein manifolds in dimension 4
Alice Chang
10:00am|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract: Given a class of conformally compact Einstein manifolds with boundary, we are interested to study the compactness of the class under some local and non-local boundary constraints. I will report some joint work with Yuxin Ge and Jie Qing...

Mar
04
2019

Workshop on Geometric Functionals: Analysis and Applications

Singularities of Teichmueller harmonic map flow
Melanie Rupflin
11:30am|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract: We discuss singularities of Teichmueller harmonic map flow, which is a geometric flow that changes maps from surfaces into branched minimal immersions, and explain in particular how winding singularities of the map component can lead to...

Mar
04
2019

Workshop on Geometric Functionals: Analysis and Applications

Self-similar solutions of mean curvature flow and entropy
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract: Colding-Minicozzi introduced a natural entropy for hypersurfaces in euclidean space that is non-increasing under the mean curvature flow (MCF) and is a natural measure of the hypersurface's geometric complexity. In particular...

Mar
04
2019

Workshop on Geometric Functionals: Analysis and Applications

Kaehler constant scalar curvature metrics on blow ups and resolutions of singularities
Claudio Arezzo
4:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract: After recalling the gluing construction for Kaehler constant scalar curvature and extremal (`a la Calabi) metrics starting from a compact or ALE orbifolds with isolated singularities, I will show how to compute the Futaki invariant of the...

Mar
05
2019

Workshop on Geometric Functionals: Analysis and Applications

L^p curvatures : some analysis questions from gauge theory
10:00am|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract : What are the possible limits of smooth curvatures with uniformly bounded $L^p$ norms ?We shall see that the attempts to give a satisfying answer to this natural question from the calculus of variation of gauge theory brings us to numerous...