Department of Mathematics
Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Stony Brook, New York

June 1-7, 2002

Preliminary Schedule of Events
Lectures and refreshments will take place in S-240 of the Mathematics Building.

Friday May 31st

06:30 - 09:00. Wine & Cheese reception party (in room S-240 of the Mathematics Building)


Saturday June 1st

09:00 - 09:20. Welcoming words by Detlef Gromoll, Chairman of the Department of Mathematics,
John W. Milnor, Director of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, and Gail Habicht,
Vice President for Research

09:30 - 10:30. Phillip Griffiths (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Hodge Theoretic Invariants of Algebraic Cycles

11:00 - 12:00. Spencer Bloch (University of Chicago)
Motives and Algebraic Cycles

01:30 - 02:30. Gang Tian (Massachussetts Institute of Technology)
Moduli of Self-dual Connections

03:00 - 04:00. Isadore Singer (Massachussetts Institute of Technology)
Recent Developments in Index Theory

04:30 - 05:30. Misha Gromov (Courant Institute & IHES)
(this talk is not yet confirmed)

07:00 - ---- Party hosted by Jim and Marilyn Simons


Sunday June 2

09:30 - 10:30. Paulo Lima-Filho (Texas A&M University)
The Equivariant Topology of Cycles on Brauer-Severi Varieties

11:00 - 12:00. Henri Gillet (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Recent Developments in Arakelov Theory

01:30 - 02:30. Robert MacPherson (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Combinatorics and Torus Equivariant Intersection Homology

03:00 - 04:00. William Meeks (University of Massachussetts)
The Topology and Classification of Minimal Surfaces in R3

04:30 - 05:30. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (IHES & Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Dirac Operators and Submanifold Theory


Monday June 3

09:30 - 10:30. Robert Bryant (Duke University)
Moduli and Rigidity of Algebraic Cycles in Hermitian Symmetric Spaces

11:00 - 12:00. Reese Harvey (Rice University)
Some Aspects of Varieties in Geometry

01:30 - 02:30. Daniel Dugger (Purdue University)
Minicourse: Voevodsky Theory, Lecture I

03:00 - 04:00. Herman Gluck (University of Pennsylvania)
Spectral Geometry of the Curl Operator

04:30 - 05:30. Robert Osserman (MSRI, Berkeley)
The Art and Science of Costa's Surface


Tuesday June 4

09:30 - 10:30. Martin Rocek (YITP SUNY Stony Brook)
Introduction to Supergravity and M-theory

11:00 - 12:00. Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)
Knots Invariants and G2 Manifolds

01:30 - 02:30. Tobias Colding & William Minicozzi (Courant Institute & John Hopkins University)
Minicourse: Minimal Surfaces in 3-manifolds , Lecture I

03:00 - 04:00. Daniel Dugger (Purdue University)
Minicourse: Voevodsky Theory , Lecture II

04:30 - 05:30. Sergei Cherkis (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Hyperkähler Manifolds and M-theory Five-brane


Wednesday June 5

09:30 - 10:30. Jeff Cheeger (Courant Institute)
Self-duality of Curvature and Degeneration of Metrics with Special Holonomy

11:00 - 12:00. David Hoffman (MSRI, Berkeley)
Singular Flat Structures and Embedded Minimal Surfaces

01:30 - 02:30. Tobias Colding & William Minicozzi (Courant Institute & John Hopkins University)
Minicourse: Minimal Surfaces in 3-manifolds , Lecture II

03:00 - 04:00. Daniel Dugger (Purdue University)
Minicourse: Voevodsky Theory , Lecture III

04:30 - 05:30. Eric Friedlander (Northwestern University)
Semi-topological K-theory and Cohomology


Thursday June 6

09:30 - 10:30. George Papadopoulos (King's College, London)
Minicourse: M-theory and Calibrations , Lecture I

11:00 - 12:00. Tobias Colding & William Minicozzi (Courant Institute & John Hopkins University)
Minicourse: Minimal Surfaces in 3-manifolds , Lecture III

01:30 - 02:30. George Papadopoulos (King's College, London)
Minicourse: M-theory and Calibrations , Lecture II

03:00 - 04:00. Problem Session

06:00 - 10:30. Banquet (on the occasion of Blaine's birthday)


Friday June 7

09:00 - 10:00. Jonathan Rosenberg (University of Maryland)
Recent Progress on the Gromov-Lawson Conjecture

10:15 - 11:15. George Papadopoulos (King's College, London)
Minicourse: M-theory and Calibrations , Lecture III

11:30 - 12:30. Rick Schoen (Stanford University)
Extremal Properties of Riemannian Metrics in Three Dimensions


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