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Connections for Women: Differential Geometry January 14, 2016 - January 15, 2016
Registration Deadline: January 14, 2016 about 7 years ago
To apply for Funding you must register by: October 14, 2015 over 7 years ago
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Organizers Christine Breiner (Brown University), LEAD Natasa Sesum (Rutgers University)
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The purpose of this meeting is to help junior female researchers to become familiar with the focus topics of the main MSRI program, and also for the junior researchers to have an opportunity to get acquainted with more senior women researchers in differential geometry. This workshop is open to all mathematicians. Bibliography (PDF)   Group Photo
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To apply for funding, you must register by the funding application deadline displayed above.

Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding awards are typically made 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.

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Jan 14, 2016
Thursday
09:15 AM - 09:30 AM
  Welcome
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Topology of Closed Hypersurfaces of Small Entropy
Lu Wang (Yale University)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Tea Break
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Ancient solutions to geometric flows
Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia University)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Monge-Ampère equations on quasi-projective varieties
Eleonora Di Nezza (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Tea Break
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Sliced Filling Volumes and Intrinsic Flat Convergence
Christina Sormani (CUNY, Graduate Center)
04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
  Panel Discussion
06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
  Dinner at the Taste of Himalayas
Jan 15, 2016
Friday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Finite total $Q$-curvature on a locally conformally flat manifold
Yi Wang (Johns Hopkins University)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Tea Break
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Convergence of Manifolds and Metric Spaces with Boundary
Raquel Perales (Instituto de Matematicás, UNAM-Oaxaca)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Singularity Formation of the Yang-Mills Flow
Casey Kelleher (Princeton University)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Tea Break
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Local Isoperimetric Constant Estimate for Integral Ricci Curvature
Guofang Wei (University of California, Santa Barbara)