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Symposium in Geometry: a conference in honor of S. S. Chern March 05, 1998 - March 07, 1998
Registration Deadline: March 07, 1998 almost 27 years ago
To apply for Funding you must register by: December 05, 1997 about 27 years ago
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Organizers Raoul Bott , Phillip Griffiths, I. M. Singer, Gang Tian, Alan Weinstein, Hugo Rossi
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Mar 05, 1998
Thursday
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Configuration space invariants of knots and 3-manifolds
Raoul Bott
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Finsler manifolds of constant flag curvature
Robert Bryant
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Extremal metrics in Riemann Surfaces and the Uniformization Theorem
Xiu-Xiong Chen
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Projective Geometry
S. S. Chern
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Neo-modern Hodge theory
Phillip Griffiths
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Why do I like Chern classes?
Friedrich Hirzebruch
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Algebraic cycles and the classical groups
Blaine Lawson
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Mirror Principle
Kefeng Liu
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Duistermaat-Heckman formulas for group valued moment maps and moduli spaces of flat connections
Ekhard Meinrenken
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Introductory remarks
James Simons
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Backlund transformations and loop ground actions
Chuu-Lian Terng
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  From Riemann geometry to Poisson geometry and back again
Alan Weinstein