Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar
- Start Date: 05/07/2011
- End Date: 05/08/2011
Lars Andersson (Max Planck Institute and Harvard)
Bill Minicozzi (Johns Hopkins)
Colleen Robles (Texas A&M)
Christina Sormani (CUNY Graduate Center/Lehman College)
Craig Sutton (Dartmouth)
University of Washington
The Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar (PNGS) is a regional meeting for geometers
of all kinds. It is held every fall and spring, and every other winter, rotating
among the following participating institutions:
- Oregon State University
- Portland State University
- Stanford University
- University of British Columbia
- University of Oregon
- University of Utah
- University of Washington
Saturday, May 7
9:45 - 10:50: Coffee, tea, breakfast snacks
10:50 - 12:00:
Colleen Robles (Texas A&M)
Homological rigidity of Schubert varieties in compact Hermitian symmetric spaces
Open problems
12:00 - 1:30: Lunch
1:30 - 2:40: Craig Sutton (Dartmouth)
Hearing the moments of inertia of a rigid body
2:45 - 3:55: Christina Sormani (CUNY Graduate Center/Lehman College)
The Positive Mass Theorem, the Penrose Inequality and the Intrinsic Flat Distance
Open problems
4:00 - 4:30: Coffee, tea, snacks
4:30 - 5:40: Ben Chow (UC San Diego)
Some estimates for gradient Ricci solitons
Open problems
6:30: Conference dinner
(location to be announced)
Sunday, May 8
8:45 - 9:50: Coffee, tea, breakfast snacks
9:50 - 11:00: Lars Andersson (Max Planck Institute & Harvard)
The black hole stability problem
11:00 - 11:20: Coffee, tea, snacks
11:20 - 12:30: Bill Minicozzi (Johns Hopkins)
Singularities and dynamics of Mean Curvature Flow
Please see the official event webpage for further information: