The 2005 Spring Southeast Geometry Conference will be held on the March 11-12 (Friday and Saturday), at the Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. The SEGC is an annual conference, in its sixteenth 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. 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).

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.

Schedule for Friday, March 11.

1:00-1:30 Refreshments, LeConte 410

1:30-2:20 Jason Parsley

Biot-Savart Operator, Helicity, and Linking on S^3.

2:30-3:20 Daniel Dix

Sharp rates of decay of correlations in special flows over a hyperbolic toral automorphism.

3:30-4:20 Ronald Fulp

The quantum master equation.

4:20-4:40 Break and coffee LeConte 410

4:40-5:30 Shirley L. Yap

Prescribing Curvature Forms.

5:30-6:20 Haydee Herrera

Elliptic genus on non-spin manifolds with S^1 actions.

8:00-9:00 Poster session with wine and cheese. LeConte 410

Schedule for Saturday, March 12.

8:00-8:30 Coffee and refreshments LeConte 410

8:30-9:20 Conrad Plaut

Universal covers of uniform spaces.

9:30-10:20 Nándor Simányi

Rotation numbers of billiards (A topological approach).

10:20- 10:40 Coffee and refreshments LeConte 410

10:40-11:30 Jesse Ratzkin

Nondegeneracy of constant mean curvature surfaces.

11:40-12:30 Roman Vershynin

Probabilistic approach to asymptotic convex geometry: global and local.

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-2:50 Alexander Koldobsky

Intersection bodies and $L_p$-spaces.

3:00-3:50 Artem Zvavitch

The Busemann-Petty problem for arbitrary measures.

3:50- 4:10 Break and refreshments

LeConte 410

4:10-5:00 Eric Grinberg

Tomography by maximally curved spheres in compact symmetric spaces.

5:10-6:00 Laszlo Szekely

Crossing numbers of graphs.

Information relevant to the conference:

• Lodging. Arrangements have been made with some local hotels for special rates for participants. Information can be found here.
• Local restaurants.
• Maps.
• Weather in Columbia.

A pdf version of this document can be found here.

More information can be obtained from the organizers:
Steve Dilworth: dilworth@math.sc.edu
Ralph Howard: howard@math.sc.edu