The sixteenth annual Geometry Festival will be held at the Mathematics Department of Northeastern University from Friday afternoon, April 20, to Sunday noon, April 22, 2001.

The talks will take place in Room 135 SH, in the Shillman Building. The complete program for the Geometry Festival can be found here.

The Festival will begin Friday afternoon, to allow for travel that morning, with check in and registration from 2 pm to 3pm, and the first talk at 3:30 pm. It will end at noon on Sunday, to allow for travel home that afternoon.

Everyone is invited to the Geometry Festival, and graduate students are especially encouraged to attend.

Chuu-Lian Terng, Maxim Braverman, Chris King, Mikhail Shubin, Alex Suciu, Gang Tian

If you have any question, please feel free to contact us at:

geomfest@mystic.math.neu.edu

• Robert Bryant  (Duke University)
  Rigidity and quasi-rigidity of extremal cycles in Hermitian symmetric spaces
   
• Tobias Colding  (New York University)
  Embedded minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds
   
• Boris Dubrovin  (International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy)
  Normal forms of integrable PDEs and Frobenius manifolds
   
• John Lott  (University of Michigan)
  Heat equation methods in noncommutative geometry
   
• Dusa McDuff  (SUNY Stony Brook)
  Seminorms on the Hamiltonian group and the nonsqueezing theorem
   
• Rick Schoen  (Stanford University)
  Variational approaches to the construction of minimal lagrangian submanifolds
   
• Shing-Tung Yau  (Harvard University)
  Mirror symmetry

A list of speakers at previous Geometry Festivals can be found here.

Check-in will begin at 12 noon on Friday in the Shillman Building, just outside Room 135 SH. The first talk will be at 3PM on Friday, followed by tea. All remaining lectures will take place Saturday and Sunday.

Participants will be on their own for dinner Friday evening, and will be provided with a list of suggested restaurants.

On Saturday morning, breakfast will be served from 8:30 - 9:30 AM, followed by two talks, and three more talks in the afternoon. There will be a banquet Saturday night (see below).

On Sunday morning, breakfast will again be served from 8:30 - 9:30 AM, followed by two talks. The Festival will end at noon on Sunday, to allow for travel home that day.

Conference participants can park in the Parking Garage or the Northeastern parking lots on Columnbus Avenue, free of charge from Friday at 2pm Friday to Sunday at 1pm.

Do not use the Visitor's Parking (Renaissance Parking Garage), which is not free and is very expensive. To see the locations for parking, you may consult the Campus Map.

Participants are asked to register in advance. An electronic Registration Form is now available. See here the list of people already registered. The usual registration fee of $30 ($20 for graduate students) will be waived. However, we suggest a donation of $10 ($5 for graduate students) at the registration desk, so as to help defray the cost of breakfasts during the conference.

There will be a banquet on Saturday night, at the Faculty Center. The price is again $30 for faculty or other professionals, but will be reduced to $10 for graduate students, tax and tip included. If you wish to attend the banquet, you must sign up by Monday, April 16; please check the appropriate boxes on the registration form and include the banquet fee with your breakfast donation. You can write one check to cover both.

The Geometry Festival will provide breakfast on Saturday and Sunday and refreshments throughout the weekend for all participants.

Participants will pay for their own travel, hotel accommodations, lunches and dinners.

The Geometry Festival is supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

If funds remain after conference expenses are paid, partial reimbursement of travel and hotel costs will be made to some participants, with preference given to graduate students and younger faculty who do not have NSF or other grant or school support. Please check the appropriate boxes and provide the indicated information on the registration form to help us with this.

People interested in applying for travel funds should send (preferably by email) the following information:

1. A vita, including list of publications.
2. Whether other NSF grant or school support is available.
3. Whether participation in the poster session is desired.

This web site will be updated from time to time. Please check it once again for last minute changes, just before you come to the Geometry Festival. A list of participants will be posted approximately one week before the beginning of the conference.

The web site will remain in place for a while after the Geometry Festival is over, so that you can refer to it for information about, and links to, future Festivals.

Please bookmark this site as: http://www.math.neu.edu/geomfest.