Geometry Festival Previous Speakers

GEOMETRY FESTIVAL SPEAKERS

1985 at Penn:

  • Marcel Berger,
  • Pat Eberlein,
  • Jost Eschenburg,
  • Friedrich Hirzebruch,
  • Blaine Lawson,
  • Leon Simon,
  • Scott Wolpert,
  • Deane Yang

1986 at Maryland:

  • Uwe Abresch, "Explicit constant mean curvature tori"
  • Zhi-yong Gao, "The existence of negatively Ricci curved metrics"
  • David Hoffman, "New results in the global theory of minimal surfaces"
  • Jack Lee, "Conformal geometry and the Yamabe problem"
  • Ngai-ming Mok, "Compact Kaehler manifolds of non-negative curvature"
  • John Morgan, "Self dual connections and the topology of 4 manifolds"
  • Chuu-lian Terng, "Submanifolds with flat normal bundle"

1987 at Penn:

  • Robert Bryant, "The construction of metrics with exceptional holonomy"
  • Francis Bonahon, "Hyperbolic 3-manifolds with arbitrarily short geodesics"
  • Keith Burns, "Geodesic flows on the 2-sphere"
  • Andreas Floer, "Instantons and Casson's invariant"
  • Hermann Karcher, "Embedded minimal surfaces in the 3-sphere"
  • Jurgen Moser, "Minimal foliations of tori"
  • Ed Witten. "Applications of quantum field theory to topology"

1988 at North Carolina:

  • Detlef Gromoll, "On complete spaces of nonnegative Ricci curvature"
  • Nicolaos Kapouleas, "Constant mean curvature surfaces in E^3"
  • Robert Osserman, "Gauss map of complete minimal surfaces"
  • Pierre Pansu (Colloquium), "L^p-cohomology of negatively curved manifolds"
  • Peter Petersen, "Bounding homotopy types by geometry"
  • Gang Tian, "Kaehler-Einstein metrics on quasiprojective manifolds"
  • DaGang Yang, "Some new examples of manifolds of positive Ricci curvature"
  • Wolfgang Ziller, "Recent results on Einstein metrics"

1989 at Stony Brook:

  • Eugenio Calabi, "Extremal singular metrics on surfaces"
  • Harold Donnelly, "Nodal sets of eigenfunctions on riemannian manifolds"
  • Yasha Eliashberg, "Symplectic geometric methods in several complex variables"
  • Thomas Farrell, "A topological analogue of Mostow's rigidity theorem"
  • Lesley Sibner, "Solutions to Yang-Mills equations which are not self-dual"
  • Carlos Simpson, "Moduli spaces of representations of fundamental groups"

1990 at Maryland:

  • Michael T. Anderson, "Behavior of metrics under Ricci curvature bounds"
  • Kevin Corlette, "Harmonic maps and geometric superrigidity"
  • Kenji Fukaya, "Fundamental groups of almost non-negatively curved manifolds"
  • Misha Gromov (Colloquium), "Recent progress in symplectic geometry"
  • Werner Muller, "On spectral theory for locally symmetric manifolds with finite volume"
  • Rick Schoen, "Least area problems for Lagrangian submanifolds"
  • Gudlaugur Thorbergsson, "Isoparametric submanifolds and their Tits buildings"
  • Shing-Tung Yau, "Some theorems in Kahler geometry"

1991 at Duke:

  • Jeff Cheeger, "Transgressed Euler classes of SL(2n,Z)-bundles and adiabatic limits of eta-invariants"
  • Chris Croke, "Volumes of balls in manifolds without conjugate points and rigidity of geodesic flows"
  • Carolyn Gordon, "When you can't hear the shape of a manifold"
  • Wu-Yi Hsiang, "Sphere packing and spherical geometry: The Kepler conjecture and beyond"
  • Alan Nadel, "On the geometry of Fano varieties"
  • Grigori Perelman, "Alexandrov's spaces with curvature bounded from below"
  • Stefan Stolz, "On the space of positive curvature metrics modulo diffeomorphisms"

1992 at NYU/Courant:

  • Jonathan Block, "Aperiodic tilings, positive scalar curvature and other homological phenomena"
  • John Franks, "Infinitely many closed geodesics on the 2-sphere"
  • Karsten Grove, "The inevitable presence of singular spaces in riemannian geometry"
  • Lisa Jeffrey, "Volumes of moduli spaces of flat connections on Riemannian surfaces"
  • Jun Li, "Anti-self-dual connections on SU(2) bundles over algebraic surfaces"
  • Dusa McDuff, "Symplectic 4-manifolds"
  • Clifford Taubes, "Anti-self dual conformal structures in 4 dimensions"

1993 at Penn:

  • Shing-Shen Chern, "Finsler geometry"
  • Richard Hamilton, "An isoperimetric estimate for the curve-shrinking flow"
  • Vaughan Jones, "Loop groups and operator algebras"
  • Claude LeBrun, "Compact Kaehler manifolds of constant scalar curvature"
  • Louis Nirenberg, "The maximum principle and related things"
  • Xiaochun Rong, "Collapsing in low dimensions and rationality of geometric invariants"
  • I. M. Singer, "Geometry and quantum field theory"

1995 at Stony Brook:

  • Dimitri Burago, "Asymptotic geometry of Z^n-periodic metrics"
  • Tobias Colding, "Ricci curvature and convergence"
  • Dominic Joyce, "Compact riemannian manifolds with exceptional holonomy groups"
  • Yael Karshon, "Hamiltonian torus actions"
  • David Morrison, "Analogues of Seiberg-Witten invariants for counting curves on Calabi-Yau manifolds"
  • Tom Mrowka, "The Seiberg-Witten equations and 4-manifold topology"
  • Yongbin Ruan, "Higher genus pseudo-holomorphic curves"
  • Edward Witten (Colloquium), "Monopoles and four-manifolds"

1996 at Maryland:

  • J. Baez, "Quantum gravity and BF theory in 4 dimensions"
  • Jean-Luc Brylinski, "Gauge groups and reciprocity laws on algebraic varieties"
  • Bruce Kleiner, "Spaces of nonpositive curvature"
  • G. Margulis, "Quantitative Oppenheim Conjecture"
  • S. P. Novikov, "Laplace and Darboux transformations"
  • Richard Schwartz, "The Devil's Pentagram"
  • Guofong Wei, "Volume comparison with integral curvature bounds"
  • Shmuel Weinberger (Colloquium), "Equivariant rigidity: For and against"

1997 at Duke:

  • Jeanne Nielsen Clelland (IAS), "Geometry of Conservation Laws for Parabolic PDE's".
  • Anatole Katok (Penn State University), "Rigidity and invariant geometric structures for differentiable group actions".
  • François Labourie (Université Paris-Sud (Orsay)), "Monge-Ampere problems, holomorphic curves and laminations".
  • Gang Liu (MIT), "Floer Homology and the Arnold Conjecture".
  • William Minicozzi (John Hopkins University) "Harmonic functions on manifolds".
  • Matthias Schwarz, "Symplectic fixed points and quantum cohomology".
  • Stephen Semmes (Rice University), "Geometry with Little Smoothness".