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Southeast Geometry Conference
Friday-Saturday, March 14-15, 2008.

The 2008 Spring Southeast Geometry Conference will be held on the March 14-15 (Friday and Saturday), at the Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. The SEGC is an annual conference, in its nineteenth year, covering all areas of geometry focused on relatively lengthy talks (40-50 minutes is the norm), both invited and contributed. The conference is free and open to the public. Young researchers and grad students are especially encouraged to participate in the conference, which will include a Poster Session on the evening of March 14. Registration is not required, but we'd appreciate a quick note if you plan to come so that we can be sure to have enough coffee to go around. All conference talks will be in Room 412, LeConte (map).

Schedule for Friday, March 14.

1:00-1:30 Refreshments, LeConte 311

1:30-2:20 Conrad Plaut (University of Tennessee, Knoxville.)
Homotopy Critical Values and the UU-cover.

2:30-3:20 Alex Kasman (College of Charleston.)
Grassmannians are simpler than we thought.

3:30-4:20 Jesse Ratzkin (University of Georgia.)
Rigidty and deformations of constant mean curvature surfaces.

4:20-5:40 Break and coffee LeConte 311

4:40-5:30 John McCuan (Georgia Institute of Technology.)
Symmetric constant mean curvature surfaces in the three sphere.

5:40-6:30 Matthias Weber (Indiana University, Bloomington.)
Minimal Surfaces with Little Topology

8:00-9:00 Poster session with wine and cheese. LeConte 311

Schedule for Saturday, March 15.

9:00-9:30 Coffee and refreshments LeConte 311

9:30-10:20 Tom Ivey (College of Charleston.)
Some Results on Austere 4-folds.

10:30-11:20 Sema Salur (University of Rochester.)
Calibrated Geometries.

11:30-12:20 Yuanan Diao (University of North Carolina at Charlotte.)
Jones Polynomial of Knots from Repeated Tangle Replacement Operations.

12:20-2:00 Lunch

2:00-2:50 Christina Sormani (Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center.)
Understanding the Topology of Manifolds with Nonnegative Ricci Curvature.

3:00-3:50 Bianca Santoro (Duke University.)
Complete kahler metrics with prescribed Ricci curvature on quasiprojective manifolds.

4:00-4:50 Mohammad Ghomi (Georgia Institute of Technology.)
Topology of Riemannian submanifolds with prescribed boundary.

Poster session: On Friday evening after dinner there will be a poster session for graduate students, or others who wish to contribute, to present their work. This will be accompanied by wine and cheese.

Lodging

Participants are responsible for making their own resevations. Arrangements for special rates have been made at two local hotels. In both cases the reservations must be made by February 28, 2008 for the rate to apply and be sure to say that you want one of the rooms reserved for the geometry conference. The hotels are Other hotels/motels within walking distance of the department are

Information relevant to the conference:

More information can be obtained from the organizers:
Ralph Howard: howard @ math.sc.edu
Tom Ivey: iveyt @ cofc.edu


Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.