Workshop on Ricci Solitons and Symmetry

  • March 16-18, 2012



Conference Schedule



All conference activities will take place in the Physical Sciences Center.  Below are the rooms used
    Registration will be in PHSC 424.
    Coffee will be in PHSC 424 everyday.
    Friday talks will be in PHSC 115.
    Saturday talks will be in PHSC 416.
    Sunday talks will be in PHSC 416.

    Conference dinner will take place on Saturday, 6pm, at Pepe Delgado's, on Campus Corner.

Please see the directions page for maps of the campus and Campus Corner.

Friday, March 16:

  8:30 - 9:25
Registration (Room 424)
  9:25 - 9:30
Welcome (Room 115)
  9:30 - 9:50
M. Williams (UCLA)
Solitons derived from Heisenberg groups
  9:50 - 10:10
M. Buzano (Oxford)
Cohomogeneity one gradient Ricci solitons
10:10 - 10:30
Coffee
10:30 - 10:50
E. Fernández Culma (Córdoba)
Classification of 7-dimensional Einstein Nilradicals
10:50 - 11:10
T. Lloyd-Hepburn (Saint Louis)
Ricci Flow on Some Classes of Naturally Reductive Homogeneous Spaces
11:10 - 11:30
K. Onda (Nagoya)
Algebraic Ricci Solitons of three-dimensional Lorentzian Lie groups
11:30 - 1:30
Lunch
 1:00 - 2:00
Registration (Room 424)
  2:00 - 3:00 P. Petersen (UCLA)
Warped Product Rigidity
 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee break & discussion
 3:30 - 4:30 W. Wylie (Syracuse)
Ricci solitons and warped product Einstein metrics

Remark:  The Fred Jones Museum of Art will be open til 9pm on Friday evening.  The art museum is located just north of the math dept. on the corner of Boyd St. and Elm Ave.  Click here for a map of the area.


Saturday, March 17:

  9:00 - 9:30
Coffee
  9:30 - 10:30 J. Lauret (Córdoba)
On homogeneous Ricci solitons
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break & discussion
11:00 - 12:00 E. Garcia-Rio (Santiago de Compostela)
Lorentzian Quasi-Einstein metrics
12:00 - 2:00
Lunch
  2:00 - 3:00
C. Will (Córdoba)
The space of Solvsolitons in low dimensions
  3:00 - 4:00 Coffee -- walk to nearby cafe(s)
  4:00 - 5:00
T. Payne (Idaho State)
Geometric Invariants for Nilpotent Metric Lie Algebras with Applications to Moduli Spaces of Nilsoliton Metrics
  5:00 - 6:00 Free time
  6:00 - 7:30 Dinner at Pepe Delgado's


Sundary, March 18:

  9:00 - 10:00 C. Boyer (New Mexico)
Extremal Sasakian metrics
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break & discussion
10:30 - 11:30
B. Kotschwar (Arizona State)
Unique continuation, with and without analyticity, for the Ricci flow
11:30
Depart