Saturday, October 24, 2009

Complex Geometry: A Conference Honoring Simon Donaldson

• 9:30am   Simon Donaldson,   Imperial College
  Title: Lecture 1. Introduction to Kahler geometry
  Abstract and details available

• 11:00am   Jacob Sturm,   Rutgers University
  Title: Regularity of geodesic rays
  Abstract and details available

• 12:00pm   Duong Phong,   Columbia University
  Title: On the Dirichlet problem for the Monge-Ampere equation
  Details of the talk

• 2:30pm   Simon Donaldson,   Imperial College
  Title: Lecture 2. The Tian-Zelditch-Lu expansion
  Abstract and details available

• 4:00pm   Valentino Tosatti,   Harvard University
  Title: Kahler-Ricci flow with bounded curvature
  Abstract and details available

• 5:00pm   Claude LeBrun,   Stony Brook University
  Title: Four-Dimensional Einstein Manifolds and Conformally Kahler Geometry
  Abstract and details available

Sunday, October 25, 2009

• 9:30am   Simon Donaldson,   Imperial College
  Title: Lecture 3. Stability and scalar curvature
  Abstract and details available

• 11:00am   Philippe Eyssidieux,   University of Grenoble
  Title: Gauge Theory and Uniformization in several complex variables
  Details of the talk

• 12:00pm   Jian Song,   Rutgers University
  Title: The Kahler-Ricci flow through singularities
  Abstract and details available

• 2:30pm   Toshiki Mabuchi,   Osaka University
  Title: K-stability and asymptotic Chow stability for polarized algebraic manifolds
  Abstract and details available

• 4:00pm   Gabor Szekelyhidi,   Columbia University
  Title: Greatest lower bounds on the Ricci curvature of Fano manifolds
  Abstract and details available

• 5:00pm   Ben Weinkove,   University of California, San Diego
  Title: The Kahler-Ricci flow on Hirzebruch surfaces
  Abstract and details available

Monday, October 26, 2009

Complex Geometry: A Conference Honoring Simon Donaldson

• 9:00am   Simon Donaldson,   Imperial College
  Title: Lecture 4. Discussion of the Kahler-Einstein problem, I
  Abstract and details available

• 10:15am   Yanir Rubinstein,   Stanford University
  Title: The Cauchy problem for the homogeneous Monge-Ampere equation
  Abstract and details available

• 11:30am   Sean Paul,   University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Title: Hyperdiscriminant polytopes, Chow Polytopes, and K-energy asymptotics
  Abstract and details available

• 2:00pm   Xiaohua Zhu,   Peking University
  Title: Stability on K\"ahler-Ricci flow on a compact K\"ahler manifold with positive first Chern class
  Abstract and details available

• 3:15pm   Bo Berndtsson,   Chalmers Inst. of Technology
  Title: Positivity of direct image bundles and geodesics in the space of Kahler potentials
  Abstract and details available

• 4:30pm   Zhiqin Lu,   University of California, Irvine
  Title: Remarks on hypersurface K-stability
  Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Complex Geometry: A Conference Honoring Simon Donaldson

• 9:00am   Simon Donaldson,   Imperial College
  Title: Lecture 5. Discussion of the Kahler-Einstein problem, II
  Abstract and details available

• 10:15am   Xiuxiong Chen,   University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Title: On the space of Kahler metrics
  Abstract and details available

• 11:30am   Claudio Arezzo,   University of Parma
  Details of the talk

• 2:00pm   Frank Pacard,   University of Paris 12
  Title: An end-to-end construction for K\"ahler-Einstein metrics
  Abstract and details available

• 3:15pm   Robert Berman,   Chalmers Inst. of Technology
  Title: Monge-Ampère equations, variational principles and balanced metrics
  Abstract and details available