Conference Schedule

All talks will take place in Math 3206 (Colloquium room).

View list of conference participants

Friday, September 22:

2:00 PM	Welcome address by the organizers
2.05 PM	Welcome by Dean Halperin
2.15 PM -- 3.15 PM	Detlef Gromoll, "Metric fibrations and nonnegative curvature"
3.15 PM -- 3.45 PM	Break (coffee/cookies)
3.45 PM -- 4.45 PM	Steve Halperin: "Exponential growth: some new results in topology and some old questions in geometry"
5:30 pm	Reception hosted by Karsten & Ilse Grove for all conference attendees as well as faculty and staff of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland. Location: Rotunda of the math department at Maryland.

Saturday, September 23:

8.30 AM	Coffee/bagels/donuts
9.00 AM -- 10.00 AM	Peter Petersen, "Perturbing from nonnegative to positive curvature".
10.00 AM -- 10.30 AM	Break
10.30 AM -- 11.30 AM	Burkhard Wilking, "Manifolds with positive curvature operators are space forms"
11:30 AM - 2.00 PM	Lunch
2.00 PM -- 3.00 PM	Jeff Cheeger, "Generalized differentiation and bi-Lipschitz non-embedding in $L^1$."
3.00 PM -- 3.30 PM	Break (coffee/cookies)
3.30 PM -- 4.30 PM	Toby Colding, ''Shapes of embedded minimal surfaces''
6.00 PM - ?	Banquet at the University Inn and Conference Center.

Sunday, September 24:

8.00 AM	Coffee/bagels/donuts
8.30 AM -- 9.30 AM	Bruce Kleiner, "The asymptotic geometry of negatively curved spaces"
9.30 AM -- 10.00 AM	Break
10.00 AM -- 11.00 AM	Chris Croke, "Some questions of sharp isoperimetric type and rigidity"