Seventh Annual Southeast Geometry Conference

Time, Location, and Parking

The Seventh Southeast Geometry Conference will be Friday May 17, 1:00PM-5:30PM and Saturday May 18, 9:00AM-5:30PM at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. If you are driving, the major interstates into Columbia are I-20, I-26, I-77. Here are directions to get to the visitor parking garage from I-20, I-26, I-77, and the airport. Here are coarse, fine and downtown Columbia maps and a campus map. The Columbia Metropolitan Airport is serviced by these airlines.

There is no registration fee and feel free to just show up. While it is not necessary to let the organizers know you are coming if they have a good partial head count it should insure there is enough coffee and munches.

All talks will be in Humanities Building, Room 202. Here are directions to the meeting room from the visitor parking lot, that is from the intersection of Pickens and Pendleton. The room is one of the university's new "Enhanced Classrooms". There is an Elmo Visual Presenter in the room: text written on paper can be projected onto the screen. There is also other equipment in this room; click here for information about the enhanced room.

Lodging

We have arranged for special rates at several local motels. All are within walking distance, the longest walk being about 15-20 minutes (from the Governor's House Hotel). Depending on what athletic events or concerts are playing locally rooms can be scarce during May in Columbia, so it is a good idea to make reservations as soon as possible. Of course there are many other hotels and motels in Columbia.

Friday's Schedule

12:30 Pre-conference Refreshments
1:00 Jose G. Vargas
Recent Developments in the Theory of Non-linear Euclidean Connections
1:45 Yiping Mao
Geodesic Conjugacy in Riemannian Manifolds
2:30 Mattias Dahl
Rigidity Results from the Positive Mass Argument
3:15 Refreshments
3:30 Herman Gluck
Embedding and Knotting of Positive Curvature Surfaces in 3-space
4:40 Jeanne Nielsen Clelland
Geometry of Conservation Laws for a Class of Parabolic PDEs

Saturday's Schedule

9:00 Sergey A. Kochengin
Reconstruction of Reflector Surfaces from Near-Field Scattering Data
9:45 Greg Galloway
A Maximum Principle for Rough Hypersurfaces and Applications
10:30 Sasa Kresic-Juric
Two Approaches to Integrable Nonlinear Differential Equations
11:15 Clint McCrory
Stiefel-Whitney Classes of Spaces with Singularities
12:00 Lars Andersson
On the Global Evolution Problem in 2+1 Gravity
1:00 Lunch
2:30 Herman Gluck
An upper bound for the writhing number of knotted DNA
3:45 Mike Gage
Anisotropic Evolution Equations and Minkowski Geometry
4:30 Alex Kasman
Rational Spectral Curves: A Constructive Introduction to the Classification of Commutative Rings of Ordinary Differential Operators

Other sites of interest:

  • Columbia weather
  • University of South Carolina home page
  • University of South Carolina Department of Mathematics home page
  • Columbia South Carolina home page

    Last modified 1 May, 1996

    E-mail:
    howard@math.sc.edu
    or send mail to:
    Ralph Howard
    Department of Mathematics
    University of South Carolina
    Columbia, SC 29208
    USA
    Telephone:
    (803) 777-2913
    FAX:
    (803) 777-3783

    Acknowledgment