GEOMETRY FESTIVAL 2018
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Friday April 6 - Sunday April 8, 2018
The 33rd Annual Geometry Festival will be held at the
Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania,
from Friday afternoon April 6 to Sunday noon April 8, 2018.
The Festival will be in honor of Eugenio Calabi,
on the occasion of his 95th birthday.
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The speakers and the titles of their talks are:
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, "The mathematical works of Eugenio Calabi"
Yasha Eliashberg, "h-principle without pre-conditions and arborealization"
Carolyn Gordon, "Decoding (or not?) geometry and topology from the
Steklov spectrum of orbisurfaces"
Daniel Ketover, "On the existence of minimal surfaces isotopic to a
Heegaard surface"
Yevgeny Liokumovich, "Weyl law for widths of Riemannian manifolds"
Rick Schoen, "The positive mass theorem revisited"
Jenny Wilson, "Stability in the homology of configuration spaces"
The Geometry Festival website
http://www.math.upenn.edu/geomfest2018
is up and running for registration, banquet, and hotel information, and we will shortly add the abstracts of the talks. The site also shows a regularly updated list of participants, and the detailed schedule will be added as soon as it is available.
The hotel information lists four nice hotels convenient to the UPenn campus.
In each case, your reservation needs to be guaranteed and paid for with your own credit card.
After the Geometry Festival is over and conference expenses have been paid, we will use the remaining funds from the National Science Foundation grant to partially reimburse the travel expenses for graduate students and early career faculty without other sources of support.
To help us do this most effectively, participants who know one another can economize by sharing a room. We particularly encourage graduate students to do so, or to explore finding a room through Airbnb, which is much less expensive than the hotels, and still available in Philadelphia.
Good to register as quickly as possible, before the special hotel rates expire, and because there are competing events in Philadelphia at the same time as the Geometry Festival.
Geometry Festival Organizing Committee: Renato Bettiol, Jonathan Block, Ted Chinburg, Chris Croke, Dennis DeTurck, Rob Ghrist, Herman Gluck, Jerry Kazdan, Alexander Kirillov, Davi Maximo, Peter McGrath, Wolfgang Ziller
Please direct inquiries to
Herman Gluck < [log in to unmask] >
Davi Maximo < [log in to unmask] >
Wolfgang Ziller < [log in to unmask] >
or call the Penn Math Department at 215-898-8627 and ask for Monica Pallanti.
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