Lie Group Actions in Riemannian Geometry
Dartmouth College, June 26–30, 2017

Program

The conference will start at approximately 8:30 A.M. on Monday June 26. The research talks will end at lunch time on Friday; however, there will be discussions and perhaps an open problem session Friday afternoon for those that are able to stay. The full program will be posted shortly.

MONDAY (All Monday lectures are in 008 Kemeny Hall)

• 8:00–8:50. Light breakfast (Outside of 008 Kemeny)
• 8:50–9:00 Welcome and introductions
9:00–10:00 Survey Lecture: Wolfgang Ziller, Manifolds with nonnegative or positive curvature under the presence of symmetry 10:20–11:10 Tracy Payne, The Structure of H-like Metric Lie Algebras 11:30–12:20 Craig Sutton, Detecting the Moments of Inertia of a Molecule via its Rotational Spectrum
• 2:00–3:30 Small group discussions
3:30 –4:20 Dmytro Yeroshkin, Group Actions on Manifolds with Density 4:40–5:30 Catherine Searle, The maximal symmetry rank conjecture for non-negatively curved manifolds
• 5:30 Reception, Faculty Lounge, 300 Kemeny Hall

TUESDAY (All Tuesday lectures are in 008 Kemeny Hall)

• 8:00–8:50. Light breakfast (Outside of 008 Kemeny)
8:50–9:50 Survey lecture: Jorge Lauret, Algebraic Solitions 10:10–11:00 Ramiro Lafuente, The Ricci flow on solvmanifolds of real type 11:20–12:10 Anna Fino, $G_2$-structures and Ricci solitons
• 12:15–2:00 Ice-breaker lunch
• 2:00–3:10 Small group discussions
3:10–4:00 Ricardo Mendes, Minimal hypersurfaces in compact symmetric spaces 4:20–5:10 Benjamin Schmidt, Real projective spaces with all geodesics closed 7:00 Public lecture: Lee Kennard, A beautiful, living formula

WEDNESDAY (All Wednesday lectures are in 41 Haldeman)

• 8:00–8:50. Light breakfast (Outside of 41 Haldeman)
8:50–9:40 Cynthia Will, Lie groups with negative Ricci curvature
• 9:40–10:30 Poster session
10:30–11:20 Yuri Nikolayevsky, Two topics on homogeneous geodesics 11:30–12:20 Renato Bettiol, Cohomogeneity one Ricci Flow and Nonnegative Sectional Curvature

THURSDAY (Thursday morning lectures are in 41 Haldeman, afternoon in 008 Kemeny)

• 8:00–8:50 Light breakfast (Outside of 41 Haldeman)
8:50–9:40 Wolfgang Ziller, Finsler metrics with constant curvature 10:00–-10:50 Hiroshi Tamaru, Left-invariant metrics and submanifold geometry 11:10–12:00 Romina Arroyo, The long-time behaviour of the pluriclosed flow on Lie groups.
• 2:00–3:30 Small group discussions
3:30–4:20 Lee Kennard, Torus actions and positive curvature 4:40–5:30 Jonathan Epstein, Topological Entropy of Left-Invariant Magnetic Flows on 2-Step Nilmanifolds
• 7:00 Conference banquet, Dartmouth Outing Club House

FRIDAY (All Friday lectures are in 41 Haldeman)

• 8:00–8:50. Light breakfast (Outside of 41 Haldeman)
8:50–9:40 Jorge Lauret, Ricci negative solvmanifolds and the convexity properties of the moment map 10:00–10:50 Teresa Arias-Marco, What is a weakly-Einstein manifold of order $k$? 11:10–12:00 Marcos Origlia, Locally conformal Kähler or symplectic structures on compact solvmanifolds
• Afternoon: Conference rooms will be available for informal discussions