Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
University of Maryland

• September 5
  Jakob Hultgren (Chalmers)
  Title: Permanental point processes on tori and real Monge-Ampere equations
  


• September 26
  Klaus Kroencke (Hamburg)
  Title: Stability of ALE Ricci-flat manifolds under Ricci-flow
  Abstract: We prove that if an ALE Ricci-flat manifold (M,g) is linearly stable and integrable, it is dynamically stable under Ricci flow, i.e. any Ricci flow starting close to g exists for all time and converges modulo diffeomorphism to an ALE Ricci-flat metric close to g. By adapting Tian's approach in the closed case, we show that integrability holds for ALE Calabi-Yau manifolds which implies that they are dynamically stable. This is joint work with Alix Deruelle.


• October 3
  Joel Spruck (JHU)
  Title: Complete translating solitons to the mean curvature flow in R^3 with nonnegative mean curvature
  Abstract: We prove that any complete immersed two sided mean convex translating 3D soliton Sigma for the mean curvature flow is convex. As a corollary it follows that any entire mean convex graphical translating soliton in R^3 is the axisymmetric ''bowl soliton''. We also show that if the mean curvature of Sigma tends to zero at infinity, then Sigma can be represented as an entire graph and so is the bowl soliton. Finally we classify all locally strictly convex graphical translating solitons defined over strip regions (the only other possibility).This is joint work with Ling Xiao.


• October 10
  Yannick Sire (JHU)
  Title: Scattering theory and variants of the Yamabe problem
  Abstract: In a seminal paper, Graham and Zworksi developed a new theory for GJMS operators, which are conformally covariant operators of higher order. I will explain this theory, based on scattering theory on Poincare-Einstein manifolds and move on to extend some results on the Yamabe problem to several recent cases in the regular and singular case.


• October 17
  Yanir Rubinstein (UMD)
  Title: TBA
  


• October 24
  Yanir Rubinstein (UMD)
  Title: TBA
  


• November 14
  Alejandro Diaz (UMD)
  Title: Existence and Boundedness of Isoperimetric Regions in Surfaces of Revolution with Density
  Abstract: The isoperimetric problem with a density or weighting seeks to enclose prescribed weighted volume with minimum weighted perimeter. According to Chambers' recent proof of the log-convex density conjecture, for many densities on R^n the answer is a sphere about the origin. We seek to generalize his results to some other spaces of revolution or to two different densities for volume and perimeter. We provide general results on existence and boundedness and their proofs.


• February 6
  Matthew Dellatorre (UMD)
  Title: Lagrangian mean curvature flow of Milnor fibres (after Thomas-Yau)
  


• February 12
  Hopkins-Maryland Complex Geometry Seminar talk
  


• February 20
  Matthew Dellatorre (UMD)
  Title: Lagrangian mean curvature flow of Milnor fibres (after Thomas-Yau) continued
  


• February 27
  (Tamas is away)
  


• March 6
  Matthew Dellatorre (UMD)
  Title: Lagrangian mean curvature flow of Milnor fibres (after Thomas-Yau) continued
  


• March 13
  Eleonora Di Nezza (IHES)
  Title: Log-concavity of the volume of positive currents
  Abstract: In this talk we present a proof of the log-concavity property of total masses of positive currents on a given compact Kahler manifold, that was conjectured by Boucksom, Eyssidieux, Guedj and Zeriahi. The proof relies on the resolution of complex Monge-Ampere equations with prescribed singularities. This is based on a joint work with Tamas Darvas and Chinh Lu.
  


• March 20
  Spring Break
  


• March 27
  Ovidiu Munteanu (Uconn)
  Title: Structure of four dimensional shrinking Ricci solitons.
  Abstract: I will describe recent results about the asymptotic geometry of complete four dimensional shrinking Ricci solitons. These are self similar solutions to the Ricci flow and appear in blowups of singularities of the flow.
  


• April 3
  Reza Seyyedali (Howard)
  Title: Relative Chow stability of extremal Kahler metrics
  Abstract: In 2001, Donaldson proved that any constant scalar curvature polarized manifold is asymptotically Chow stable provided that the group of hamiltonian athromorphisms is discrete. In this talk, we discuss some generalization of Donaldson's result to extremal metrics.
  


• April 10
  Hopkins-Maryland Complex Geometry Seminar talk
  


• April 24
  Hopkins-Maryland Complex Geometry Seminar talk
  


• May 1
  Jingrui Cheng (Wisconsin)
  Title: Apriori estimates for scalar curvature type equations on compact Kahler manifolds
  Abstract: We develop apriori estimates for scalar curvature type equations on compact Kahler manifolds. As an application, we show that K-energy being proper with respect to L^1 geodesic distance implies the existence of constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics. This is joint work with Xiuxiong Chen.
  


• May 8
  Hopkins-Maryland Complex Geometry Seminar talk
  

Fall 2017 and beyond: Mihai Paun, Jiaping Wang.

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