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Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar
2011 Spring Meeting

University of Washington 
Seattle, WA 98195 

Saturday and Sunday, May 7-8, 2011

Schedule

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
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
4:00 - 4:30:Coffee, tea, snacks
4:30 - 5:40:Ben Chow (UC San Diego)
Some estimates for gradient Ricci solitons
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

Location:  Savery Hall, Room 260.

Parking:  Available in the Central Parking Garage. Enter from 15th Ave NE, across from NE 41st St. Parking costs $5 on Saturday until noon, and is free on Sunday.

Traffic:  Saturday May 7 is Seattle's "opening day of the boating season," which means that the Montlake Bridge will be closed and the area around it will be very crowded, with crew races in the morning and a boat parade in the afternoon. You should be OK if you avoid the Montlake bridge and the eastern side of campus on Saturday.

Hotel Info:  A limited number of discounted rooms ($129 instead of the regular price of $149) are available at the Silver Cloud Inn, 5036 25th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98105.  It's a nice hotel, with an indoor pool & spa, included breakfast, free wi-fi, and fitness center.  It's a bit less than a mile walk from campus.  (You do have to walk up a rather long hill, so if that's a problem you should consider a different hotel.) To get the discounted rate, you can either phone the Silver Cloud at 1-800-205-6940 and ask for the Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar group rate; or you can use their online reservation system, and when it asks for a Group ID, type in PNGS and password 2011.  You'll need to give them a credit card number to guarantee the room; their cancellation policy is 24 hours prior to the date of arrival.  

Travel Reimbursements: Some funding from the NSF and PIMS is available to reimburse travel expenses for participants in this meeting.  Priority goes to graduate students and to faculty without grant support for travel. To arrange for travel reimbursement, please contact Jim Isenberg ([log in to unmask], 541-346-4725) as soon as possible.

Disability Accommodations: To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at: 206.543.6450 (voice), 206.543.6452 (TTY), 206.685.7264 (fax), or email at [log in to unmask]. The University of Washington makes every effort to honor disability accommodation requests. Requests can be responded to most effectively if received as far in advance of the event as possible, preferably at least 10 days.

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