Tenth Midwest Geometry Conference: Schedule of Talks

Friday, November 17: Afternoon session in W401 PBB (Pappajohn)
12:00-1:00 Registration

• 1:00-2:00 Michael Eastwood: Invariant differential operators in conformal differential geometry
  2:00-2:15 Questions and discussion

(15-minute break)

• 2:30-3:30 Jeff Viaclovsky: Some fully nonlinear equations in conformal geometry
  3:30-3:45 Questions and discussion

(30-minute break)

• 4:15-5:15 Dan Knopf: New Harnack quadratics for the Ricci flow via the space-time approach
  5:15-5:30 Questions and discussion

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Saturday, November 18: Morning session in W401 PBB (Pappajohn)
• 8:00-9:00 Richard Melrose: Model spaces at infinity and invertibility of Dirac operators
  9:00-9:15 Questions and discussion

(15-minute break)

• 9:30-10:30 Henri Moscovici: Noncommutative transverse geometry
  10:30-10:45 Questions and discussion

(15-minute break)

• 11:00-12:00 Rafe Mazzeo: Nonlinear scattering on hyperbolic space
  12:00-12:15 Questions and discussion

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12:15-1:30 Lunch (nothing organized)

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Saturday, November 18: Afternoon session in W401 PBB (Pappajohn)
• 1:30-2:30 Sheldon Katz: The integrality conjecture for curves in Calabi-Yau threefolds
  2:30-2:45 Questions and discussion

(15-minute break)

• 3:00-4:00 Brian Greene: Aspects of Mirror Symmetry and Quantum Geometry
  4:00-4:15 Questions and discussion

(30-minute break)

• 4:45-5:45 Wei-Dong Ruan: Lagrangian torus fibration of Calabi-Yau manifold and mirror symmetry
  5:45-6:00 Questions and discussion

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7:00 Dinner in the Richey Ballroom [rm. 376] of the Iowa Memorial Union (doors open at 6:45)

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Sunday, November 19: Morning session in W401 PBB (Pappajohn)
• 9:00-10:00 S.J. Gates: Vector fields and super-Virasoro algebras
  10:00-10:15 Questions and discussion

(30-minute break)

• 10:45-11:45 S.G. Rajeev: Vector fields in non-commutative geometry and Yang-Mills theory
  11:45-12:00 Questions and discussion

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