GEOMETRY FESTIVAL SPEAKERS AND TITLES

1985 at Penn:

• Marcel Berger,
• Pat Eberlein,
• Jost Eschenburg,
• Friedrich Hirzebruch,
• Blaine Lawson,
• Leon Simon,
• Scott Wolpert,
• Deane Yang

1986 at Maryland:

• Uwe Abresch, "Explicit constant mean curvature tori"
• Zhi-yong Gao, "The existence of negatively Ricci curved metrics"
• David Hoffman, "New results in the global theory of minimal surfaces"
• Jack Lee, "Conformal geometry and the Yamabe problem"
• Ngai-ming Mok, "Compact Kaehler manifolds of non-negative curvature"
• John Morgan, "Self dual connections and the topology of 4 manifolds"
• Chuu-lian Terng, "Submanifolds with flat normal bundle"

1987 at Penn:

• Robert Bryant, "The construction of metrics with exceptional holonomy"
• Francis Bonahon, "Hyperbolic 3-manifolds with arbitrarily short geodesics"
• Keith Burns, "Geodesic flows on the 2-sphere"
• Andreas Floer, "Instantons and Casson's invariant"
• Hermann Karcher, "Embedded minimal surfaces in the 3-sphere"
• Jurgen Moser, "Minimal foliations of tori"
• Ed Witten. "Applications of quantum field theory to topology"

1988 at North Carolina:

• Detleff Gromoll, "On complete spaces of nonnegative Ricci curvature"
• Nicolaos Kapouleas, "Constant mean curvature surfaces in E^3"
• Robert Osserman, "Gauss map of complete minimal surfaces"
• Pierre Pansu (Colloquium), "L^p-cohomology of negatively curved manifolds"
• Peter Petersen, "Bounding homotopy types by geometry"
• Gang Tian, "Kaehler-Einstein metrics on quasiprojective manifolds"
• DaGang Yang, "Some new examples of manifolds of positive Ricci curvature"
• Wolfgang Ziller, "Recent results on Einstein metrics"

1989 at Stony Brook:

• Eugenio Calabi, "Extremal singular metrics on surfaces"
• Harold Donnelly, "Nodal sets of eigenfunctions on riemannian manifolds"
• Yasha Eliashberg, "Symplectic geometric methods in several complex variables"
• Thomas Farrell, "A topological analogue of Mostow's rigidity theorem"
• Lesley Sibner, "Solutions to Yang-Mills equations which are not self-dual"
• Carlos Simpson, "Moduli spaces of representations of fundamental groups"

1990 at Maryland:

• Mike Anderson, "Behavior of metrics under Ricci curvature bounds"
• Kevin Corlette, "Harmonic maps and geometric superrigidity"
• Kenji Fukaya, "Fundamental groups of almost non-negatively curved manifolds"
• Misha Gromov (Colloquium), "Recent progress in symplectic geometry"
• Werner Muller, "On spectral theory for locally symmetric manifolds with finite volume"
• Rick Schoen, "Least area problems for Lagrangian submanifolds"
• Gudlaugur Thorbergsson, "Isoparametric submanifolds and their Tits buildings"
• Shing-Tung Yau, "Some theorems in Kahler geometry"

1991 at Duke:

• 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"
• Stefan Stolz, "On the space of positive curvature metrics modulo diffeomorphisms"

1992 at NYU/Courant:

• 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:

• Shing-Shen Chern, "Finsler geometry"
• Richard Hamilton, "An isoperimetric estimate for the curve-shrinking flow"
• Vaughan Jones, "Loop groups and operator algebras"
• Claude LeBrun, "Compact Kaehler manifolds of constant scalar curvature"
• Louis Nirenberg, "The maximum principle and related things"
• Xiaochun Rong, "Collapsing in low dimensions and rationality of geometric invariants"
• I. M. Singer, "Geometry and quantum field theory"

1995 at Stony Brook:

• Dimitri Burago, "Asymptotic geometry of Z^n-periodic metrics"
• Tobias Colding, "Ricci curvature and convergence"
• Dominic Joyce, "Compact riemannian manifolds with exceptional holonomy groups"
• Yael Karshon, "Hamiltonian torus actions"
• David Morrison, "Analogues of Seiberg-Witten invariants for counting curves on Calabi-Yau manifolds"
• Tom Mrowka, "The Seiberg-Witten equations and 4-manifold topology"
• Yongbin Ruan, "Higher genus pseudo-holomorphic curves"
• Edward Witten (Colloquium), "Monopoles and four-manifolds"

1996 at Maryland:

• J. Baez, "Quantum gravity and BF theory in 4 dimensions"
• Jean-Luc Brylinski, "Gauge groups and reciprocity laws on algebraic varieties"
• Bruce Kleiner, "Spaces of nonpositive curvature"
• G. Margulis, "Quantitative Oppenheim Conjecture"
• S. P. Novikov, "Laplace and Darboux transformations"
• Richard Schwartz, "The Devil's Pentagram"
• Guofong Wei, "Volume comparison with integral curvature bounds"
• Shmuel Weinberger (Colloquium), "Equivariant rigidity: For and against"