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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.
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Jeff Cheeger |
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU |
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"Differentiation, bi-Lipschitz nonembedding and embedding"
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Charles Fefferman |
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Princeton University |
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"Fitting a smooth function to data"
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Helmut Hofer |
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU |
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"On the analytic and geometric foundations of symplectic field theory"
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Ko Honda |
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University of Southern California |
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"Reeb vector fields and open book decompositions"
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William Meeks |
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University of Massachusetts |
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"The Dynamics Theorem for embedded minimal surfaces"
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Yair Minsky |
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Yale University |
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"Asymptotic geometry of the mapping class group"
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Frank Morgan |
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Williams College |
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"Manifolds with Density"
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Zoltan Szabo |
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Princeton University |
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"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.
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Karl Friedrich Gauss
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
Shiing-shen Chern
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