Workshop on Geometric Evolution Equations

April 16-27, 2008

Program
 

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
09:00
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissant (6245)


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Jingyi Chen
(The University of British Columbia)
A priori estimate for convex solutions to special Lagrangian equations
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Artem Pulemotov
(Cornell University)
The Li-Yau-Hamilton estimate and the Yang-Mills heat equation
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:30
Spiro Karigiannis
(University of Oxford)
Flows of G_2 Structures
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Bo Guan
(Ohio State University)
TBA

 

Thursday, April 17, 2008
09:00 - 10:00
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissant (6245)


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Xiuxiong Chen
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
TBA
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Julien Keller
(Université de Provence Aix-Marseille 1)
Ricci balanced metrics

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:30
Gábor Székelyhidi
(Imperial College)
The Kähler-Ricci flow and K-polystability
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Jacob Sturm
(Rutgers University)
Geodesics in ths space of Kahler metrics
Abstract

 

Friday, April 18, 2008
09:00
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissant (6245)


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Xiuxiong Chen
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
TBA
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Nassif Ghoussoub
(University of British Columbia)
Navier-Stokes evolutions as selfdual variational problems
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break

Session - Colloque CRM-ISM Colloquium
Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:30
Rafe Mazzeo
(Stanford University)
Flexibility of singular Einstein metrics
Abstract

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room : 6214

16:00 - 17:00
Gerhard Huisken
(Universität Tübingen)
Geometric variational problems in General Relativity
Abstract

17:00
Reception
Room 6245

 

Saturday, April 19, 2008
09:00 - 10:00
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissant (6245)


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Xiuxiong Chen
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
TBA
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Albert Chau
(University of British Columbia)
TBA

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:30
Robert McCann
(University of Toronto)
TBA
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245

 

Monday, April 21, 2008
09:00
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissant (6245)


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Gerhard Huisken
(Universität Tübingen)
Mean curvature flow and isoperimetric inequalities
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Esther Cabezas-Rivas
(University of Warwick)
Volume-preserving Mean Curvature Flow in the Hyperbolic Space (and beyond)
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:30
Valentino Tosatti
(Harvard University)
The Calabi-Yau equation on symplectic manifolds
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Ben Weinkove
(Harvard University)
The Kahler-Ricci flow on Fano manifolds
Abstract

 

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
09:00
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissant (6245)


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Gerhard Huisken
(Universität Tübingen)
Inverse mean curvature flow
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Xiaohua Zhu
(Peking University)
Perelman's $W$-function and stability of Kähler-Ricci flow

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:30
Brian Weber
(SUNY Stony Brook)
Compactness of spaces of compact Ricci solitons
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Li Ma
(Tsinghua University)
Ricci flow and physical quantities
Abstract

 

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
09:00
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissant (6245)


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Burkhard Wilking
(Mathematisches Institut der Uni Münster)
New convergence results for the Ricci flow I (Evolution of geometric quantities under the Ricci flow and Hamilton's maximum principle.)
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Gerhard Huisken
(Universität Tübingen)
An isoperimetric concept for the mass in General Relativity
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:30
Xiaodong Cao
(Cornell University)
TBA
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Lei Ni
(University of California, San Diego)
Gradient shrinking solitons

 

Thursday, April 24, 2008
09:00 - 10:00
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissant (6245)


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
McKenzie Y. Wang
(McMaster University )
A Cohomogeneity One framework for Ricci Solitons
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Burkhard Wilking
(Mathematisches Institut der Uni Münster)
New convergence results for the Ricci flow II (Pinching families and three manifolds with positive Ricci curvature.)
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:30
Maung Min-Oo
(McMaster University )
Evolution of Cartan connections
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Eric Woolgar
(University of Alberta)
Ricci flow problems arising in and from physic
Abstract

 

Friday, April 25, 2008
09:00 - 10:00
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Burkhard Wilking
(Mathematisches Institut der Uni Münster)
New convergence results for the Ricci flow III (Convergence results for the Ricci flow in high dimensions.)
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Lei Ni
(University of California, San Diego)
Li-Yau-Hamilton inequalities and applications

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:30
Mu-Tao Wang
(Columbia University)
Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity and quasilocal mass
Abstract

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245

Session - Colloque CRM-ISM Colloquium
Meeting room : 6214

16:00 - 17:00
Burkhard Wilking
(Mathematisches Institut der Uni Münster)
New Ricci flow invariant curvature conditions and applications
Abstract

17:00
Reception
Room 6245

 

Saturday, April 26, 2008
09:00
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissant (6245)


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Weiyong He
(University of British Columbia)
The singularities along the mean curvature flow
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Natasa Sesum
(Columbia University)
TBA

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