Workshop on Geometric PDE

April 23-27, 2012

Program

 

Monday, April 23, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Vestislav Apostolov
(Université du Québec à Montréal)
Extremal Kähler metrics on toric orbifolds with $b_2(M)=2$
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:50
Ben Weinkove
(University of California, San Diego)
The evolution of a Hermitian metric by its Chern-Ricci form
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:50
Bo Guan
(Ohio State University)
Monge-Ampère type fully nonlinear equations on Hermitian manifolds
Abstract
15:00 - 15:50
Jixiang Fu
(Fudan University)
Limiting behavior of a class of Hermitian-Yang-Mills metrics
Abstract
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:30 - 17:20
Valentino Tosatti
(Columbia University)
Collapsing of Calabi-Yau manifolds
Abstract

17:20
Reception
Room(s) 6245

 

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Ailana Fraser
(University of British Columbia)
An eigenvalue problem and minimal surfaces in the ball
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:50
Joel Spruck
(Johns Hopkins University)
The asymptotic Plateau problem for convex hypersurfaces of constant curvature in hyperbolic space and De Sitter space
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:50
Natasa Sesum
(University of Pennsylvania)
Ancient solutions to the Yamabe flow
Abstract
15:00 - 15:50
Junfang Li
(University of Alabama at Birmingham)
A new mean curvature type of flow and its fully nonlinear version
Abstract
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee
Room(s) 6245

 

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Steve Zelditch
(Northwestern University)
The Cauchy problem for the complex homogeneous Monge-Ampère equation and geodesics in the space of Kahler metrics
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:50
McKenzie Y. Wang
(McMaster University )
Ricci solitons of cohomogeneity one
Abstract
12:00 - 12:50
Mu-Tao Wang
(Columbia University)
A variational problem for isometric embeddings into the Minkowski space
Abstract

 

Thursday, April 26, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Cristina Trombetti
(Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Best constants in certain Sobolev-Poincaré inequalities
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:50
Tom Ilmanen
(ETH Zürich)
Update in mean curvature flow
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:50
Lei Ni
(University of California, San Diego)
Solving Poincaré-Lelong equation via Hodge-Laplace heat equation
Abstract
15:00 - 15:50
Spiro Karigiannis
(University of Waterloo)
The moduli space of asymptotically conical $G_2$ manifolds
Abstract
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:30 - 17:20
Marcus Khuri
(Stony Brook University)
The Yamabe problem on manifolds with boundary
Abstract

 

Friday, April 27, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Maria Buzano
(University of Oxford)
Ricci flow on spaces with a large symmetry group
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:50
Ahmed Zeriahi
(Université Paul Sabatier)
Viscosity solutions to degenerate complex Monge-Ampère equations
Abstract
12:00 - 12:50
Gantumur Tsogtgerel
(McGill University)
On nonconstant mean curvature solution of the Einstein constraint equations
Abstract