Bloomington Geometry Workshop

April 13-15, 2001
Indiana University 
Bloomington, Indiana

The Indiana University Mathematics Department will host a gathering of geometers on the weekend of April 13-15, 2001[cite: 5]. The purpose of the gathering is to foster interaction between mathematicians whose combined interests span a large swath of the geometric spectrum[cite: 5].

Location:

The mathematics department is housed in Rawles Hall at the intersection of 3rd Street and Woodlawn Avenue[cite: 8].

All talks will take place in room 140 of Swain Hall East, the building that is immediately west of Rawles Hall.

Schedule of talks:

Friday:

• 4:00 Richard Schoen (Palo Alto)
  A Plateau problem in Kaehler geometry (colloquium)

Saturday:

• 9:00 Bagels and coffee in the math department lounge (Rawles Hall 103).
• 9:30 Richard Canary (Ann Arbor)
  Deformation spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• 11:00 Stephanie Alexander (Urbana-Champaign)
  The convex hull property and topology of hypersurfaces with nonnegative curvature
• 2:00 Richard Bishop (Urbana-Champaign)
  Spines and topology of thin Riemannian manifolds
• 3:00 Tea in the math department lounge
• 4:00 Keith Burns (Evanston)
  Magnetic flows

Sunday:

• 9:00 Bagels and coffee in the math department lounge
• 9:30 James Glazebrook (Charleston/Urbana-Champaign)
  Dimensional reduction of the Hermitian-Einstein equation
• 11:00 Bruce Kleiner (Ann Arbor)
  Recognition of the standard 2-sphere up to quasi-symmetric homeomorphisms and 3-manifolds with negative curvature

Electronic Registration:

If you plan to join us, then please register electronically.

The Best of Bloomington Theatre:

The internationally recognized Indiana University School of Music will present Leonard Bernstein's Candide on both Friday and Saturday night, April 13 and April 14. On those same nights the excellent University Theatre will present Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance.

Accomodations:

Blocks of rooms have been set aside at

• the on campus IMU Hotel.
  Call 800-209-8145 before March 30 and mention 'Geometry Workshop'.
• the Ramada Inn, located approximately 2 miles from Mathematics Department.
  Call 812-332-9453 before March 30 and mention 'Geometry Workshop' for a rate of at most $65.

Restaurants and Coffee:

The restaurants near the University serve a wide variety of cuisines including: Afghan, Ethiopian, Indian, Moroccan, Thai, and Tibetan.

Many restaurants have fare amenable to vegetarian diets , and one can find a decent cup of coffee in town.

Support:

We might receive support from the National Science Foundation to enable us to reimburse the expenses of a limited number of participants[, 83]. To apply for support, please register electronically.

Contact information:

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to send e-mail to one of the organizers:

Bruce Solomon solomon@iu.edu
Chris Judge cjudge@iu.edu