Schedule for TGTC 2015

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Friday, February 27

5:00 – 6:00 PM

Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley): Tropical Plane Curves
(talk for graduate students)

6:30 – 7:30 PM

Light buffet in 646 PGH

8:00 – 9:00 PM

Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley): The 27 Trees on a Cubic Surface

Saturday, February 28

8:00 – 8:30 AM

Coffee, juice and doughnuts, in 646 PGH

8:30 – 9:30 AM

Laura Matusevich (Texas A&M): A-hypergeometric solution sheaves

10:00 – 11:00 AM

Steve Zelditch (Northwestern): Plank's constant, time, and stationary states in quantum mechanics

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Colleen Robles (Texas A&M): Characteristic cohomology of the horizontal subbundle on flag manifolds and connections to Hodge theory

Lunch break

3:00 – 4:00 PM

Mark Stern (Duke): Introduction to nonlinear harmonic forms

4:30 – 5:30 PM

Cameron Gordon (UT Austin): Left-orderability and 3-manifold groups

6:45 PM

Dinner at Fung's Kitchen: web-page, Google maps
7320 Southwest Fwy. #115, Houston, TX 77074, phone (713) 779-2288

Sunday, March 1

8:00 – 9:00 AM

Coffee, juice and doughnuts, in 646 PGH

9:00 – 10:00 AM

Lei Ni (UC San Diego): Hypersurface flow by the power of the Gauss curvature

10:30 – 11:30 AM

Alastair Hamilton (Texas Tech): Functional integrals and pairing classes in the moduli space of Riemann surfaces