Program                                                                                                  last updated: May 24, 2005

NCTS Workshop on Conformal Invariants--Geometric and Analytic Aspects

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* Friday, 10 June 2005

09:30~9:50 

Registration

09:50~10:00

Opening
Jing Yu, Head of Mathematics Division, NCTS
Sun-Yung A.Chang (Princeton University)  

10:00-11:00

Robin Graham (University of Wahington)

Dirichlet-to-Neumann map and positive frequency theorem for
Poincare-Einstein metrics

Tea Break

11:10-12:10

Jie Qing (University of California)

TBA

Lunch

13:30-14:30

Thomas Branson (University of Iowa)

Q-curvature and spectral invariants

Tea Break

15:00-16:00

Chiun-Chuan Chen (National Taiwan University)
Liouville type equation with singular data

16:10-17:10

Xingwang Xu (National University of Singapore)
On Prescribing Q-curvature problem

17:45

Banquet (Please assemble at 1st floor of this building at 17:30)

 


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* Saturday, 11 June 2005

10:00-11:00

Claude LeBrun (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Nonlinear Gravitons, Null Geodesics, and Holomorphic Disks

Tea Break

11:10-12:10

Rod Gover (University of Auckland)

De Rham detour complexes, things like Q-curvature and global conformal invariants

Lunch

13:30-14:30

Colin Guillarmou (Purdue University)

Spectral geometry for geometrically finite manifolds

Tea Break

15:00-16:00

Wenfeng Chen (Physics Division, NCTS)
Four Dimensional Conformal Geometry from AdS_5 Boundary in terms of AdS/CFT Correspondence

16:10-17:10

Jih-Hsin Cheng (Academia Sinica)
The mean curvature equation in CR geometry

 

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* Sunday, 12 June 2005

City Tour

 

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* Monday, 13 June 2005

10:00-11:00

Chin-Lung Wang (NCU, NCTS)

Green Functions on Flat Tori and the Mean Field Equation

Tea Break

11:10-12:10

Jeff Viaclovsky (MIT)

Convexity and singularities of curvature equations in conformal geometry

Lunch

13:30-14:30

Pei-Ming Ho (National Taiwan University)

Instantons in AdS/CFT duality

Tea Break

15:00-16:00

Simon Brendle (Princeton University)
Global convergence of the Yamabe flow

16:10-17:10

Hao Fang (IAS, Princeton)
On a multi-particle Moser-Trudinger Inequality

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* Tuesday, 14 June 2005

10:00-11:00

Michael Eastwood (University of Adelaide)

Higher Symmetries of the Laplacian

Tea Break

11:10-12:10

Paul Yang (University of Wahington)

TBA

Lunch

13:30-14:30

Peter Perry (University of Kentucky)
The Geometry of Scattering Poles

Tea Break

15:00-16:00

Su-Jen Kan (Academia Sinica)

Complete hyperbolic Stein manifolds with prescribed automorphism groups

16:10-17:10

Chuan-Tsung Chan (Physics Division, NCTS)
Conformal Properties of Instanton Solutions in Quantum Field Theoreies