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Friday, February 20

6:30 – 7:30 PM

Light buffet in 646 PGH

8:00 – 9:00 PM

Dan Knopf (UT Austin): Minimally invasive surgery for Ricci flow singularities

Saturday, February 21

9:00 – 9:30 AM

Coffee, juice and doughnuts, in 646 PGH

9:30 – 10:30 AM

Yum-Tong Siu (Harvard): Multiplier ideal sheaves – an interface between analysis and algebraic geometry

11:00 – noon

Alexander Bufetov (Rice): Suspension Flows over Vershik's Automorphisms

Lunch break

2:00 – 3:00 PM

Bernard Shiffman (Johns Hopkins): Overcrowding and Undercrowding of Random Zeros on Complex Manifolds

3:15 – 4:15 PM

Joseph Landsberg (Texas A&M): Geometric approaches to P vs. NP

4:30 – 5:30 PM

Shelly Harvey (Rice): Subgroups of the mapping class group and higher-order signature cocycles

6:30 – TBA PM

Party at Min Ru's house

Sunday, February 22

8:00 – 8:30 AM

Coffee, juice and doughnuts, in 646 PGH

8:30 – 9:30 AM

Kefeng Liu (UCLA): Recent results on moduli spaces

9:45 – 10:45 AM

William Cherry (North Texas): Explicit sharp upper-bounds on the spherical derivative of maps from the disc into planar domains with spherical symmetries

11:00 – noon

Michael Field (UH): Resolution and intersection: three problems in equivariant geometry