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XVIIIth Annual Geometry Festival

Duke University, Durham, NC

Thursday, March 13––Sunday, March 16
2003

PROGRAM
Thursday, March 13
12:00– 3:00 Physics Building Lobby Onsite Registration Opens
 3:00– 4:00 Physics Bldg., Room 114 John Etnyre
University of Pennsylvania 		Legendrian knots in high dimensions
 4:00– 4:30 Math Department Common Room Tea
 4:30– 5:30 Physics Bldg., Room 114 Claire Voisin
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu 		K-correspondences and intrinsic pseudovolume forms
 5:30– 6:30 Math Department Common Room Wine and Cheese Reception
Friday, March 14
 8:30– 9:30 Math Department Common Room Breakfast and Refreshments
 9:30–10:30 Physics Bldg., Room 114 Ron Donagi
University of Pennsylvania 		Griffiths' intermediate Jacobians, integrable systems, and string theory
11:00–12:00 Physics Bldg., Room 114 Madhav Nori
University of Chicago 		A modified Hodge conjecture
12:00– 2:00 Various Locations Lunch (individual arrangement)
 2:30– 3:30 Physics Bldg., Room 114 Jeff Viaclovsky
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 		Fully nonlinear equations and conformal geometry
 3:30– 4:30 Math Department Common Room Tea
 4:30– 5:30 Physics Bldg., Room 114 Claude LeBrun
SUNY at Stony Brook 		Zoll Manifolds, Complex Surfaces, and Holomorphic Disks
 6:00– 8:30 Levine Science Research Center Cafeteria Buffet Supper
Saturday, March 15
 8:30– 9:30 Math Department Common Room Breakfast and Refreshments
 9:30–10:30 Physics Bldg., Room 114 Justin Sawon
SUNY at Stony Brook 		Twisted Fourier-Mukai transforms for holomorphic symplectic manifolds
11:00–12:00 Physics Bldg., Room 114 Bennett Chow
University of California at San Diego 		Harnack estimates of Li-Yau-Hamilton type for the Ricci flow
12:00– 2:00 Searle Conference Center Lunch
 2:30– 3:30 Physics Bldg., Room 114 Joe Harris
Harvard University 		Are Cubics Rational?
 3:30– 4:30 Math Department Common Room Tea
 4:30– 5:30 Physics Bldg., Room 114 John Morgan
Columbia University 		Variations of Hodge structure for 1-parameter families of Calabi-Yau three-folds
 6:00–10:00 Searle Center Banquet Hall Conference Banquet (Happy Hour, 6–7)
Sunday, March 16
 8:30– 9:30 Math Department Common Room Breakfast and Refreshments
 9:30–10:30 Physics Bldg., Room 114 Anda Degeratu
Duke University 		Geometrical McKay Correspondance
11:00–12:00 Physics Bldg., Room 114 Wilfried Schmid
Harvard University 		Automorphic distributions, L-functions, and functional equations
Web page: http://www.math.math.duke.edu/conferences/geomfest03/ Started: August 30, 2002. Updated: March 11, 2003.
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