Midwest Geometry Conference 2003
General Information	Organization	Opem Problems	Invited Speakers	Local Information	Participants
Schedules & Invited Speakers Session I, Friday afternoon, May 30 ---Surface immersions in space     [12:00-01:00 pm]    Snacks and registration in the Math Lounge.     [01:00-02:00 pm]    Ulrich Pinkall(Tech. U., Berlin):  "The Riemann Surface of a Closed Space Curve"     [02:15-03:15 pm]    Franz Pedit(U. Mass., Amherst):   "Spectral curves of 2-Tori in the 4-Sphere"     [03:30-04:30 pm]    Udo Hertrich-Jeromin(Tech. U., Berlin):    "Remarks on the Ribaucour transformation"     [04:45-05:45 pm]    Andrejs Treibergs (U. of Utah):    "Nonpositively curved surfaces in Euclidean space"     [06:00 -          pm]    Dinner: informal groups. List of restaurants provided Session II, Saturday morning, May 31 ---Geometry, analysis and probability on discrete groups     [08:00-09:00 am]    Continental Breakfast in the Math Lounge     [09:00-10:00 am]    Alex Furman(University of Illinois at Chicago):  "Orbit structures of group actions on measure spaces - old and new"     [10:15-11:15 am]    David Fisher(CUNY, Lehman College):   "Non-linear representation theory of finitely generated groups"     [11:30-12:30 pm]    Alex Eskin(University of Chicago):  "Uniform exponential growth for linear groups"     [12:30-01:00 pm]    Box lunch in the Math Lounge. Session III, Saturday afternoon, May 31 ---Minimal submanifolds     [01:00-02:00 pm]    Wei-Dong Ruan(UIChicago):   "Generalized special Lagrangian torus fibrations for Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties"     [02:15-03:15 pm]    Emma Carberry(MIT):   "Special Lagrangian cones in C3 over tori"(PS)     [03:30-04:30 pm]    Bill Minicozzi(Johns Hopkins):    "Double spiral staircases in embedded minimal disks"     [04:45-05:45 pm]    Frederico Xavier(Notre Dame):   "Global injectivity of maps and surfaces"     [06:30-08:00 pm]    Banquet at Holmes Lounge on campus     [08:00-09:00 pm]    Panel discussion on open problems Session IV, Sunday morning, June 1 ---Three-manifolds, hyperbolic geometry and geometric group theory     [08:00-08:30 am]    Continental Breakfast in the Math Lounge.     [08:30-09:30 am]    Ian Agol(UIChicago):  "Algorithmic aspects of 3-manifold topology"     [09:45-10:45 am]    Shelly Harvey (UCSD and MIT):   "Noncommutative Generalizations of the Alexander Polynomial of a 3-manifold"     [11:00- 12 noon ]    David Gabai(Princeton):   "The Smale conjecture for hyperbolic 3-manifolds"     [Noon-01:00 pm]    Box lunch in the Math Lounge
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