Kuranishi Conference Schedule
MONDAY May 2, 2005
8:45-9:00: J. Morgan (Columbia Mathematics Chair), ``Opening remarks"
9:00-9:50: L. Nirenberg (Courant Institute), ``Distance function to the
boundary and Hamilton-Jacobi equation"
10:00-10:50: J.J. Kohn (Princeton University), ``Hypoellipticity and
loss of derivatives"
COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:20: C. Fefferman (Princeton University), ``Integral conformal
invariants"
LUNCH BREAK
2:00-2:50: R. Hamilton (Columbia University), ``The Ricci flow on
3-manifolds"
3:00-3:50: R. Bryant (Duke University), ``A flow for CR hypersurfaces
in unimodular surfaces"
COFFEE BREAK
4:30- 5:00: A. Chau (Harvard University), ``Uniformization for complete
non-compact Kähler manifolds and the Kähler-Ricci flow"
5:05- 5:35: A. Cap (University of Vienna), ``On the Fefferman
construction"
5:40- 6:10: S.Y. Li (University of California, Irvine),
``Characterization of ball by using potential functions for
Kähler-Einstein metrics and pseudo-Ricci curvature"
TUESDAY May 3, 2005
9:00-9:50: S.T. Yau (Harvard University), title to be announced
10:00-10:50: T. Ohsawa (Nagoya University), ``L^2 estimates for d-bar
and Levi flats"
COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:20: N. Sibony (University of Paris, Orsay), ``Holomorphic
laminations, energy, and harmonic currents"
LUNCH BREAK
2:00-2:50: V. Guillemin (M.I.T.), ``Morse theory on symplectic
manifolds and convexity theorems"
3:00-3:50: Y.T. Siu (Harvard University), ``Methods of singular metrics
in algebraic geometry"
COFFEE BREAK
4:30-5:00: J. Sturm (Rutgers University), ``The Monge-Ampere operator
and geodesics in the space of Kähler potentials"
5:05-5:35: Z. Lu (University of California, Irvine), ``BCOV torsion on
Calabi-Yau threefolds"
5:40-6:10: H. Goldschmidt (Columbia University), ``Infinitesimal
isospectral deformations of symmetric spaces"
7:00 BANQUET, Columbia Faculty Club
WEDNESDAY May 4, 2005
9:00-9:50: P. Griffiths (Institute for Advanced Study), ``Hodge theory
and algebraic cycles".
10:00-10:50: L. Lempert (Purdue University), ``Dolbeault cohomology of
a loop space"
COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:20: J. Noguchi (University of Tokyo), ``Holomorphic curves,
log jet spaces, and applications"
LUNCH BREAK
2:00-2:50: E.M. Stein (Princeton University), ``On algebras of singular
integral and pseudo-differential operators"
3:00-3:50: G. Tian (Princeton University), ``On Kähler metrics of
constant scalar curvature"
COFFEE BREAK
4:30-5:00: X. Rong (Rutgers University), ``Collapsed manifolds with
pinched positive sectional curvature"
5:05-5:35 B. Weinkove (Harvard University), ``J-flow, Mabuchi energy,
and canonical metrics in Kähler geometry"
5:40-6:10: J. Loftin (Rutgers University), "Singular semi-flat
Calabi-Yau metrics on Sn "
THURSDAY May 5, 2005
9:00-9:50: J. Sjöstrand (Ecole Polytechnique), ``Asymptotics of
the
Bergman kernels for high powers of complex line bundles"
10:00-10:50: K. Diederich (Wuppertal University), ``Complex spaces:
news about longtime questions"
COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:20: B. Shiffman (Johns Hopkins University), ``Critical point
asymptotics and extremal metrics"
LUNCH BREAK
2:00-2:50: N.M. Mok (University of Hong Kong), ``Germs of local
holomorphic isometries between bounded symmetric domains"
3:00-3:50: S.K. Yeung (Purdue University), ``Geometric aspects of
moduli spaces of curves and complex hyperbolic lattices"
COFFEE BREAK
4:30-5:00: R. Wentworth (Johns Hopkins University), ``On the blow-up of
the Yang-Mills flow on Kähler surfaces"
5:05-5:35: E. Falbel (University of Paris, Jussieu), ``Constructing
spherical CR manifolds by gluing tetrahedra"
5:40-6:10: T. Morimoto (Nara University), ``Two theorems in
sub-riemannian geometry"
6:15-6:45: S. Paul (Columbia University), ``K-stability in
Kähler geometry"
FRIDAY May 6, 2005
9:00-9:50: J. Cheeger (Courant Institute), ``Curvature and injectivity
estimates for Einstein 4-manifolds"
10:00-10:50: L. Boutet de Monvel (University of Paris, Jussieu),
``Logarithmic traces of Szegö and Toeplitz operators"
COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:20: S. Zelditch (Johns Hopkins University), ``Complex zeroes
of real ergodic eigenfunctions"
LUNCH BREAK
1:30-2:00: C. Epstein (University of Pennsylvania), ``Deformations of
surface singularities and the relative index"
2:05-2:35: D. Tartakoff (University of Illinois, Chicago),
``Analyticity and loss of derivatives"
2:40-3:10: J. Song (Johns Hopkins University), ``The Szegö kernel
on
an orbifold line bundle"
3:15-3:45: K. Hirachi (University of Tokyo and Princeton University),
``Jet isomorphism theorems in CR and conformal geometries"
COFFEE BREAK
4:15-4:45: G. Francsics (Michigan State University), ``Spectral
analysis on complex hyperbolic spaces"
4:50- 5:20: G. Komatsu (Osaka University), ``Hadamard's variations in
several complex variables"
5:25-5:55: K. Yamaguchi (Hokkaido University), ``On Drapeaux theorem
for differential systems"
6:00-6:30: M. Namba (Osaka University), `` Moduli of Galois coverings
of the complex projective line"