Second Announcement

		26th ANNUAL GEOMETRY FESTIVAL
		University of Pennsylvania
		Philadelphia, PA 19104
		Friday April 15 - Sunday April 17, 2011

The 26th Annual Geometry Festival will be held at the
Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania,
from Friday afternoon April 15 to Sunday noon April 17, 2011.

		It will be in honor of Eugenio Calabi,
		on the occasion of his 88th birthday.

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Here is the list of speakers and the titles of their talks:

Hubert Bray (Duke University)
"On dark matter, spiral galaxies, and the axioms of general relativity"

Toby Colding (MIT)
"Generic mean curvature flow"

Claude LeBrun (SUNY Stony Brook)
"On Hermitian Einstein 4-manifolds"

Louis Nirenberg (Courant - NYU)
"Singular solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations,
and various maximum principles"

Natasa Sesum (Rutgers University)
"Yamabe solitons"

Pete Storm (Jane Street Capital)
"Infinitesimal rigidity of hyperbolic manifolds
with totally geodesic boundary"

Brian Weber (Courant - NYU)
"Analytic approaches to understanding extremal Kahler geometry"

Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University)
"An appreciation of Eugenio Calabi and his work,"
tentatively scheduled for the Saturday evening banquet after the meal

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Everyone is invited to the Geometry Festival, and graduate
students are especially encouraged to attend.  A continuing
grant from the National Science Foundation makes it possible
for us to partially reimburse the expenses of a large number
of graduate students, post-docs and younger faculty who do not
have access to travel funds from other sources.  A substantial
portion of this funding can be committed in advance, and
experience shows that additional funds for this purpose are
usually available after conference expenses have been met.

The Geometry Festival website

		http://www.math.upenn.edu/geomfest

is up and running, and you can also access it by going to the
Penn Math Department home page at

		http://www.math.upenn.edu

and clicking on the link to the Geometry Festival at the top of the page.

The web site contains the usual conference information about hotels,
registration and financial support, and the Saturday evening banquet.

In particular, we are holding blocks of rooms at a special conference
rate at both the Club Quarters (cut-off date March 15) and at the
Sheraton University City Hotel (cut-off date March 31).

Best to make your reservations before these dates in order to get the
favorable rates.

We'll add the abstracts for the talks to the web site as they become
available.

Geometry Festival Organizing Committee: Ryan Blair, Jonathan Block,
Chris Croke, Dennis DeTurck, Rob Ghrist, Herman Gluck, Jeff Jauregui,
Jerry Kazdan, Rob Kusner, Radmila Sazdanovic, Julius Shaneson,
Clayton Shonkwiler, James Stasheff, Shea Vela-Vick, Will Wylie,
Wolfgang Ziller.

Please direct inquiries to Herman Gluck at

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or call the Penn Math Department at 215-898-8627
and ask for Monica Pallanti.

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