Geometry Festival

The Geometry Festival is an annual mathematics conference held in the United States.

The festival has been held since 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland, the University of North Carolina, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Duke University and New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. It is a three day conference that focuses on the major recent results in geometry and related fields.[1]

Previous Geometry Festival speakers

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1985 at Penn

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1986 at Maryland

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1987 at Penn

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1988 at North Carolina

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1989 at Stony Brook

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1990 at Maryland

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1991 at Duke

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  • Jeff Cheeger, Transgressed Euler classes of SL(2n,Z)-bundles and adiabatic limits of eta-invariants
  • Chris Croke, Volumes of balls in manifolds without conjugate points and rigidity of geodesic flows
  • Carolyn Gordon, When you can't hear the shape of a manifold
  • Wu-Yi Hsiang, Sphere packing and spherical geometry: The Kepler conjecture and beyond
  • Alan Nadel, On the geometry of Fano varieties
  • Grigori Perelman, Alexandrov's spaces with curvature bounded from below
  • Stephan Stolz, On the space of positive curvature metrics modulo diffeomorphisms

1992 at Courant

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  • Jonathan Block, Aperiodic tilings, positive scalar curvature and other homological phenomena
  • John Franks, Infinitely many closed geodesics on the 2-sphere
  • Karsten Grove, The inevitable presence of singular spaces in Riemannian geometry
  • Lisa Jeffrey, Volumes of moduli spaces of flat connections on Riemannian surfaces
  • Jun Li, Anti-self-dual connections on SU(2) bundles over algebraic surfaces
  • Dusa McDuff, Symplectic 4-manifolds
  • Clifford Taubes, Anti-self dual conformal structures in 4 dimensions

1993 at Penn

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1995 at Stony Brook

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1996 at Maryland

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1997 at Duke

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1998 at Stony Brook

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1999 at Penn

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2000 at Maryland

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  • Samuel Ferguson, The Kepler Conjecture
  • Robert Meyerhoff, Rigorous computer-aided proofs in the theory of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
  • Herman Gluck, Geometry, topology and plasma physics
  • Burkhard Wilking, New examples of manifolds with positive sectional curvature almost everywhere
  • John Roe, Amenability and assembly maps
  • Eleny Ionel, Gromov invariants of symplectic sums
  • Mikhail Gromov, Spaces of holomorphic maps

2001 at Northeastern

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2002 at Courant

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2003 at Duke

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2004 at Courant

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2005 at Stony Brook

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2006 at Penn

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2007 at Maryland

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2008 at Duke

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2009 at Stony Brook

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2010 at Courant

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  • Tim Austin (UCLA): Rational group ring elements with kernels having irrational von Neumann dimension
  • Xiuxiong Chen (UW Madison): The space of Kaehler metrics
  • Tobias Colding (MIT): Sharp Hölder continuity of tangent cones for spaces with a lower Ricci curvature bound and applications
  • Marianna Csörnyei (University College London and Yale): Tangents of null sets
  • Larry Guth (U Toronto): Contraction of surface areas vs. topology of mappings
  • Jeremy Kahn (Stony Brook): Essential immersed surfaces in closed hyperbolic three-manifolds
  • Gang Tian (Princeton): Kähler–Ricci flow through finite-time singularities

2011 at Penn

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2012 at Duke

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2013 at Maryland

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  • Bo Berndtsson (Chalmers University): Variations of Bergman kernels and symmetrization of plurisubharmonic functions
  • Simon Donaldson (Imperial College, London): Kähler-Einstein metrics, extremal metrics and stability
  • Hans-Joachim Hein (Imperial College, London): Singularities of Kähler-Einstein metrics and complete Calabi–Yau manifolds
  • Peter Kronheimer (Harvard University): Instanton homology for knots and webs
  • Andrea Malchiodi (SISSA): Uniformization of surfaces with conical singularities
  • Aaron Naber (MIT): Characterizations of bounded Ricci curvature and applications
  • Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research): The geometry of fair allocation to random points
  • Brian White (Stanford University): Gap theorems for minimal submanifolds of spheres

2014 at Stony Brook

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  • Robert Bryant (Duke University): Rolling surfaces and exceptional geometry
  • Alice Chang (Princeton University): On positivity of a class of conformal covariant operators
  • Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton University): On null singularities for the Einstein vacuum equations and the strong cosmic censorship conjecture in general relativity
  • Kenji Fukaya (Stony Brook): Mirror symmetry between Toric A model and LG B model: some recent progress
  • Matthew Gursky (Notre Dame University): Critical metrics on connected sums of Einstein four-manifolds
  • Robert Haslhofer (New York University): Mean curvature flow with surgery
  • Andre Neves (Imperial College): Existence of minimal hypersurfaces
  • Song Sun (Stony Brook): Kähler-Einstein metrics: Gromov-Hausdorff limits and algebraic geometry

2015 at Courant

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  • Gábor Székelyhidi (Notre Dame): Kahler-Einstein metrics along the smooth continuity method
  • Blaine Lawson (Stony Brook): Potential theory for nonlinear PDE's
  • John Pardon (Stanford): Existence of Lefschetz vibrations on Stein/Weinstein domains
  • Raanan Schul (Stony Brook): Qualitative and quantitative rectifiability
  • Ursula Hamenstädt (Bonn): A Gromov/Thurston rigidity theorem for hyperbolic groups
  • Tatiana Toro (Washington): Almost minimizers with free boundary
  • Richard Bamler (Berkeley): There are finitely many surgeries in Perelman's Ricci flow

2016 at Princeton

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  • Claude LeBrun (Stony Brook): Mass in Kähler Geometry
  • Ian Agol (UC Berkeley and IAS): Pseudo-Anosov stretch factors and homology of mapping tori
  • Davi Maximo (Stanford): Minimal surfaces with bounded index
  • Fernando Marques (Princeton): Morse index and multiplicity of min-max minimal hypersurfaces
  • Nancy Hingston (The College of New Jersey): Loop Products, Index Growth, and Dynamics
  • Jennifer Hom (Georgia Tech and IAS): Symplectic four-manifolds and Heegaard Floer homology
  • Fengbo Hang (NYU, Courant): Fourth order Paneitz operator and Q curvature equation
  • Jake Solomon (Hebrew University): The space of positive Lagrangians

2017 at Duke

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  • Lucas Ambrozio (Imperial College) - Some new results for free boundary minimal surfaces
  • Otis Chodosh (Princeton) - Some new results on the global geometry of scalar curvature
  • Mark Haskins (Imperial College)
  • Chi Li (Purdue) - On metric tangent cones at Klt singularities
  • Marco Radeschi (Notre Dame) - "When all geodesics are closed"
  • Christina Sormani (CUNY) - "The Limits of Sequences of manifolds with Nonnegative Scalar Curvature"
  • Jeff Streets (UC Irvine) - Generalized Kahler Ricci flow and a generalized Calabi conjecture

2018 at Penn

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2019 at Maryland

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  • Yann Brenier (ETH, Zurich) - Fluid Mechanics and Geometry
  • Dietmar Salamon (CNRS, DMA-École Normale Supérieure ) - Moment maps in symplectic and Kähler geometry
  • Aleksandr Logunov (IAS, Princeton) - Zero sets of Laplace eigenfunctions
  • Jim Bryan (University of British Columbia) AG - The enumerative geometry and arithmetic of some of the world’s Tiniest Calabi–Yau threefolds
  • Yi Wang (Johns Hopkins University) - Boundary operator associated to σk curvature
  • Steven Zelditch (Northwestern University) - Spectral asymptotics on stationary spacetimes
  • Xuwen Zhu (University of California, Berkeley) Spherical Metrics with Conical Singularities
  • Alex Wright (University of Michigan) - Nearly Fuchsian surface subgroups of finite covolume Kleinian groups

2021 at Stony Brook (via Zoom)

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  • Joel Spruck (Johns Hopkins University) - A Personal Tribute to Louis Nirenberg
  • Akito Futaki (Yau Center, Tsinghua) - Deformation Quantization, and Obstructions to the Existence of Closed Star Products
  • Jean-Pierre Demailly (Institut Fourier, Grenoble) - Holomorphic Morse Inequalities, Old and New
  • Tristan Collins (MIT) - SYZ Mirror Symmetry for del Pezzo Surfaces
  • Jim Isenberg (University of Oregon) - Some Recent Results on Ricci Flow
  • Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (Columbia University) - Topological Recursion and Crepant Transformation Conjecture
  • Bing Wang (USTC) - Local entropy along the Ricci flow
  • Simon Donaldson (SCGP, Stony Brook/ Imperial College, London) - Some boundary value and mapping problems for differential forms

2022 at Courant (online)

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  • Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia University) - Ancient solutions to geometric flows
  • Jingyin Huang (The Ohio State University) - The Helly geometry of some fundamental groups of complex hyperplane arrangement complements
  • Wenshuai Jiang (Zhejiang University) - Gromov–Hausdorff limit of manifolds and some applications
  • Chao Li (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) - The geometry and topology of scalar curvature in low dimensions
  • Ciprian Manolescu (Stanford University) - A knot Floer stable homotopy type
  • Assaf Naor (Princeton University) - Extension, separation and isomorphic reverse isoperimetry
  • André Neves (University of Chicago) - Geodesics and minimal surfaces
  • Lu Wang (Yale University) - Hypersurfaces of low entropy are isotopically trivial
  • Ruobing Zhang (Princeton University) - Metric geometry of Calabi–Yau manifolds in complex dimension two

References

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  1. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 0072580 - Geometry Festival". NSF. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
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