Schedule for TGTC 2018

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All talks are in 232 PGH.
Friday, February 16
5:00 – 6:00 PM
Alan Reid (Rice University): Introduction to profinite rigidity in low-dimensions
(talk for graduate students)
6:30 – 7:30 PM
Light buffet in 646 PGH
8:00 – 9:00 PM
Alan Reid (Rice University): Recent progress on profinite rigidity in low-dimensions
Saturday, February 17
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Coffee, juice and doughnuts, in 646 PGH
9:00 – 10:00 AM
Huai-Dong Cao (Lehigh University): Deformation of Fano Manifolds
10:30 – 11:30 AM
Fangyang Zheng (Ohio State): Hermitian manifolds with flat connections
Lunch break
2:30 – 3:30 PM
Catherine Searle (Wichita State University): The maximal symmetry rank conjecture for non-negatively curved manifolds
4:00 – 5:00 PM
Jeffrey Danciger (UT Austin): Convex cocompact actions in real projective geometry
6:00 PM
Dinner at Fung's Kitchen: web-page, Google maps
7320 Southwest Fwy. #115, Houston, TX 77074, phone (713) 779-2288
Sunday, February 18
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Coffee, juice and doughnuts, in 646 PGH
9:00 – 10:00 AM
Fred Xavier (Texas Christian University): Conformality and Invertibility in \(\mathbb{R}^n\)
10:30 – 11:30 AM
Eric Rowell (Texas A&M University): Topological Quantum Computation