Penn Mathematics
GeomFest 2006
arrow

Home

arrow

Financial Assistance

arrow

Schedule & Program

arrow

Abstracts

arrow

Open Problems

arrow

Registration & Banquet

arrow

Accomodations

arrow

Directions to Penn

arrow

Parking

arrow

Area Restaurants

arrow

List of Participants

arrow

Previous Speakers

arrow

About this web site

   
Math Home divider Penn Home divider  
 

21st ANNUAL GEOMETRY FESTIVAL
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Friday March 31 - Sunday April 2, 2006

The 21st Annual Geometry Festival will be held at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania, from Friday afternoon March 31 to Sunday noon, April 2, 2006.

Speakers:
  Jeff Cheeger   Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
     

"Differentiation, bi-Lipschitz nonembedding and embedding"
 

  Charles Fefferman   Princeton University
     

"Fitting a smooth function to data"
 

  Helmut Hofer   Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
     

"On the analytic and geometric foundations of symplectic field theory"
 

  Ko Honda   University of Southern California
     

"Reeb vector fields and open book decompositions"
 

  William Meeks   University of Massachusetts
     

"The Dynamics Theorem for embedded minimal surfaces"
 

  Yair Minsky   Yale University
     

"Asymptotic geometry of the mapping class group"
 

  Frank Morgan   Williams College
     

"Manifolds with Density"
 

  Zoltan Szabo   Princeton University
     

"Link Floer homology and the Thurston norm"


 

The Mathematics Department is located on the fourth floor of David Rittenhouse Laboratory, on the southeast corner of 33rd and Walnut Streets. The main entrance to the building is on 33rd Street.

Everyone is invited to the Geometry Festival, and graduate students are .especially encouraged to attend. Please see the section on Financial Support for information about this.

Geometry Festival Organizing Committee: Jonathan Block, Eugenio Calabi, Chris Croke, Dennis DeTurck, John Etnyre, Herman Gluck, Jerry Kazdan, Connie Leidy, Werner Mueller, Julius Shaneson, Wolfgang Ziller

Please direct inquires to Herman Gluck at gluck@math.upenn.edu or call the Mathematics Department at 215-898-8627 and ask for Monica Pallanti.

 

Karl Friedrich Gauss
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
Shiing-shen Chern

 
Penn Home divider  Google  
 
Department of Mathematics
209 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6395
Email: dept@math.upenn.edu
Phone: (215) 898-8178 or -8627
Fax: (215) 573-4063