We are pleased to announce the conference “Reflections on Global Riemannian Geometry", in honor of Karsten Grove's 70th birthday.

The conference will take place under the banner of the annual "Smoky Great Plains Geometry Conference" in Townsend, Tennessee,  August 18-21, 2016. Townsend is about 30 miles from the University of Tennessee campus, near the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

We have confirmed the participation of the following speakers:

Stephanie Alexander (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Fuquan Fang (Capital Normal University, Beijing)
Ursula Hamenstädt (Bonn)
Nancy Hingston (Technical College New Jersey)
Vitali Kapovitch (Toronto)
Christina Sormani (Lehman College and CUNY Graduate School)
Chuu-Lian Terng (UC Irvine)
Burkhard Wilking (Münster)
Wolfgang Ziller (U Penn)

We also plan to have approximately ten shorter talks, some of which will be drawn from abstracts submitted at registration. Priority for these shorter talks will be given to early career researchers.

The conference is supported by the National Science Foundation, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Wichita State University. Participant support will be available, and priority will be given to graduate students and those in the early stages of their careers.

This is the third edition of the Smoky Great Plains Conference, the first being held in 2014 at the University of Tennessee, and the second being held in 2015 at Wichita State University. The webpage for this year's edition can be found at:

http://sgpc.math.utk.edu

Registration is currently open. For logistical reasons, it may be necessary to cap registration at 60, so we encourage you to register early. Requests for funding may be made during registration. For full consideration, submit your funding request by May 15.

We are very excited about this conference, and sincerely hope that you will be able to join us!

Best regards,

John Harvey,
Renato Ghini Bettiol,
Jill McGowan,
Conrad Plaut,
Catherine Searle,
Mark Walsh
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