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General Information

The workshop will start on Thursday (May 15) and run through Friday morning. The main conference talks will start on Friday afternoon (May 16) and run through Sunday morning.

Packets with conference information will be waiting for you at your hotel.

The conference dinner will be at 7pm on Saturday, at The Weathervane.

Workshop Schedule

All workshop talks will be in Greenlaw 101.  Coffee will be served in the back of that room.

Thursday, May 15:

  8:55 - 9:00
Welcome
  9:00 - 9:50
R. Arroyo (Córdoba)
Homogeneous Ricci solitons in low dimensions
  9:50 - 10:10
Coffee
  10:10 - 11:00
H. Wu (Oregon)
Dynamical stability of algebraic Ricci solitons
11:10 - 12:00
P. Petersen (UCLA)
Linear Stability of Algebraic Solitons
12:00 - 2:00
Lunch
 2:00 - 2:50
R. Lafuente (Córdoba)
On homogeneous warped product Einstein metrics
  3:00 - 3:25 F. Gozzi (Penn)
Low Dimensional Polar actions
 3:30 - 3:55 A. Ray (UT, Arlington)
Graphs, Group Actions, and Isospectrality
 3:55 - 4:15 Coffee
 4:15 - 5:05 W. Wylie (Syracuse)
Positive weighted curvature and Symmetry

Friday, May 16 (morning):

  9:00 - 9:50
M. Radeschi (Münster)
Clifford algebras, and new singular Riemannian foliations in round spheres
  9:50 - 10:10
Coffee
  10:10 - 11:00
Y. Nikolayevsky (La Trobe)
Solvable Lie groups of negative Ricci curvature
11:10 - 12:00
C. Sutton (Dartmouth)
Can you hear the length spectrum of a compact Lie group?

Conference Schedule

All conference talks will be held in Chapman 125.  Coffee will be served in the foyer.

Friday, May 16 (afternoon):

  2:55 - 3:00
Welcome
  3:00 - 3:50
W. Ballmann (Bonn)
Small eigenvalues on closed surfaces
  3:50 - 4:10
Coffee
4:10 - 5:00
W. Ziller (Penn)
Non-negatively curved submanifolds of Euclidean space
On Friday evening, Pat Eberlein will host a party at his house.  Details are forthcoming.

Saturday, May 17:

  9:30 - 10:00
Coffee
  10:00 - 10:50
B. Schmidt (Michigan State)
Rank-rigidity with lower sectional curvature bounds
  11:00 - 11:50
J. Heber (Kiel)
Helical submanifolds of Euclidean space
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
 1:30 - 2:20
C. Gordon (Dartmouth)
Classical and quantum equivalence of metrics and magnetic fields on nil manifolds
 2:30 - 3:20 T. Farrell (Binghamton)
Negatively curved and Anosov bundles
  3:20 - 4:00 Coffee
 4:00 - 4:50 P. Buser (Lausanne)
Isometric actions on hyperbolic polyhedra and trigonometry
At 7pm, the conference dinner will be had at the Weathervane.

Sunday, May 18 (morning):

  9:00 - 9:50
J. Lauret (Córdoba)
On nonsingular two-step nilpotent Lie algebras
  9:50 - 10:30
Coffee
  10:30 - 11:20
E. Heintze (Augsburg)
Symmetric spaces, affine Kac-Moody algebras, and submanifolds
11:30 - 12:20
A. Zimmer (Michigan)
Rigidity of convex divisible sets