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Registration will begin at noon on Friday, March 31, on the fourth floor of David Rittenhouse Laboratory. Refreshments will be available at that time, and we'll be happy to suggest nearby restaurants for those who want a full lunch.
The first talk will begin at 3 PM, and the detailed schedule and program appears below.
The two talks on Friday will be held in room A6 on the ground floor of the building.
All the talks on Saturday and Sunday will be held in room A8 on the ground floor of the building.
Participants will be on their own for dinner on Friday evening, but will be provided with a list of suggested restaurants. In addition, various Penn faculty will lead groups to local restaurants.
On Saturday and Sunday mornings, continental breakfast will be served from 8:30 - 9:30 AM on the fourth floor, before the first talks.
There will be a banquet Saturday evening. Please see the Registration and Banquet section for further information about this.
Coffee and refreshments will be available during the hours of the conference.
The Festival will end at noon on Sunday, to allow time for travel home that afternoon.
Here now is the detailed schedule and program.
FRIDAY, MARCH 31 |
12:00 noon - 3:00 PM |
Registration and light refreshments on the 4th floor |
3:00 - 4:00 PM |
Zoltan Szabo, Princeton University |
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“Link Floer homology and the Thurston norm” |
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Room A6 on the ground floor |
4:00 - 4:30 PM |
Coffee, tea and refreshments |
4:30 - 5:30 PM |
Yair Minsky, Yale University |
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“Asymptotic geometry of the mapping class group” |
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Room A6 on the ground floor |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 1 |
8:30 - 9:30 AM |
Continental breakfast on the 4th floor |
9:30 - 10:30 AM |
Frank Morgan, Williams College |
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“Manifolds with Density” |
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Room A8 on the ground floor |
10:30 - 11:00 AM |
Coffee, tea and refreshments |
11:00 - 12:00 Noon |
Jeff Cheeger, Courant Institute, NYU |
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“Differentiation, bi-Lipschitz nonembedding and embedding” |
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Room A8 on the ground floor |
12:00 - 2:30 PM |
Lunch at various nearby restaurants |
2:30 - 3:30 PM |
Ko Honda, University of Southern California |
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“Reeb vector fields and open book decompositions” |
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Room A8 on the ground floor |
3:30 - 4:00 PM |
Coffee, tea and refreshments |
4:00 - 5:00 PM |
William Meeks, University of Massachusetts |
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“The Dynamics Theorem for embedded minimal surfaces” |
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Room A8 on the ground floor |
6:30 PM |
Geometry Festival Banquet |
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Imperial Inn, 142 - 146 North 10th Street |
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SUNDAY, APRIL 2 |
8:30 - 9:30 AM |
Continental breakfast on the 4th floor |
9:30 - 10:30 AM |
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University |
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“Fitting a smooth function to data” |
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Room A8 on the ground floor |
10:30 - 11 AM |
Coffee, tea and refreshments |
11:00 - 12:00 Noon |
Helmut Hofer, Courant Institute, NYU |
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“On the analytic and geometric foundations of symplectic field theory” |
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Room A8 on the ground floor |
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