(last update: February 22, 2001, including maps and scheduling of 20-minute talks)
The cost of the banquet is $25; there are no
other conference fees.
| Name | Atlanta Arrival Time | e-mail address |
| Alex Richman | 6:30 PM Thursday | richman@math.purdue.edu |
Friday, March 2, 2001
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Welcoming Remarks | ||||||||||||||||
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John McCarthy's First Lecture:
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Guoliang Yu's First Lecture:
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Banquet at Trump's Restaurant, 247 E. Washington Street, Downtown Athens | |||||||||||||||||
Saturday, March 3, 2001
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John McCarthy's Second Lecture:
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Guoliang Yu's Second Lecture: Novikov's Conjecture | ||||||||||||||||
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Barbeque at Kevin Clancey's House, 142 Thornhill Drive, Athens | |||||||||||||||||
This will be held at 7 PM Friday at the Trumps
Catering Facility, which is located a few blocks from the Holiday Inn.
The format will be buffet style, including the following menu items:
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A cash bar will be available.
Checks for $25 per person attending should
be made out to "Flower Fund" and mailed by
February
22 to
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Department of Mathematics University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-7403 |
We will reimburse expenses to the extent that our funds allow. There will be priorities, such as graduate students, participants who give short lectures, and participants without other means of support. In many cases, we hope to make major contributions toward local expenses including motel. Probably we will not be able to give much or anything to reimburse travel costs.
For the budget-minded, there is also the Holiday Inn Express, 513 West Broad St., Athens. This is a slightly reduced service hotel, at which rooms currently go for $69 per night. The above phone number can also be used to book rooms at this hotel.
Finally, there is the Downtowner Motel, where singles currently go for a $42/night, doubles for $50/night. To quote from a recent UGA conference announcement: " 'Good enough for us', as several generations of topologists will readily testify". Call 706-549-2626 for reservations.
The two versions of the Holiday Inn are essentially downtown, within a block of each other. The Downtowner is in the "Five points" neighborhood, which (somewhat pardoxically) is not downtown at all. All three hotels are about a 20-25 minute walk from the Graduate Studies Building, where the talks will be held.
Contact Information:
Name, e-mail address, and
phone
Affiliation and mailing
address
Participation:
Probability of attending
conference
Whether you wish to give
a 20-minute talk* .
Whether you plan to attend
the banquet Friday evening; whether you are bringing
any guests
Whether you plan to attend
the barbeque Saturday evening; whether you are bringing any guests
Whether you plan to request
support from SEAM
Logistics and Requests (can be sent in later):
Arrival Mode:
Plane to Athens, Plane to Atlanta, Car, or Other
Date and approximate
time of arrival
Where you will be
staying
Date and approximate
time of departure
Special requests
* If you are giving
a talk, we would like a (plain text or TeX) title and abstract.
A Mathematics
Subject Classification Number would also be helpful.
This information is being posted on the conference
website as it is received.
| February 1 | Registration |
| February 8 | Guaranteed room availability at Holiday Inn |
| February 15 | Titles for 20-minute talks |
| February 22 | Checks covering banquet made out to "Flower Fund" |
2) The only airline that has flights into Athens is US Airways (800-428-4322), which flies to Athens from Charlotte. There are three flights a day from Charlotte to Athens, and there are many flights to Charlotte from the Northeast. The Athens airport is just a couple of miles from town, and there is taxi service from the airport. (Someone from the math department may be able to pick you up at the Athens airport.)
3) One can often find great airline deals to/from Atlanta on Clark Howard's site: check out the Clark Howard site for more details.
| Dates | March 2-3, 2001 | ||||||||||||||
| Location | The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia | ||||||||||||||
| Main Speakers |
John McCarthy (Washington University in St. Louis) First Lecture: Pick's theorem - What's the Big Deal? Second Lecture: Generalizations of Pick's Theorem |
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Guoliang Yu (Vanderbilt University) First Lecture: Large Scale Geometry of Groups Second Lecture: Novikov's Conjecture |
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| Conference e-mail Address | seam17@math.uga.edu | ||||||||||||||
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Each main speaker will give two hour-long presentations. These are designed to be accessible to graduate students. Abstracts can be found below.
Parallel sessions will be scheduled for 20-minute talks.
John McCarthy's First Lecture: Pick's theorem - What's the Big Deal ?
Abstract: Suppose N points in the unit disk, z1, ... ,zN are given, along with N complex numbers w1, ... , wN . In 1916, Georg Pick considered the question of when one could find a function f holomorphic in the unit disk and with positive real part that interpolated the data, i.e. satisfied f(zi) = wi for every i.
Pick completely answered the question, and his
criterion --- that the matrix whose ij'th entry is
(wi + bar(wj)) / (1 - zi
bar(zj))
be positive semi-definite --- can be proved using fairly basic function
theory.
Yet operator theorists still write hundreds of papers a year about this problem - why? The purpose of this expository talk is to explain why Pick's problem is important to engineers, and how it is related to operator theory.
John McCarthy's Second Lecture: Generalizations of Pick's Theorem
Abstract: We shall discuss some extensions of Pick's theorem to other settings.
Abstract: Large scale geometry was first introduced by Mostow in the proof of his famous rigidity theorem. It is popularized by Gromov's work on geometric group theory. In this talk, I will explain the basic ideas of large scale geometry. In particular, I will discuss Gromov'sconcept of uniform embedding into Hilbert space.
Abstract: A fundamental problem in the topology of high-dimensional manifolds is the Novikov conjecture. Roughly speaking the Novikov conjecture states that manifolds are rigid at a certain infinitesimal level. In my second talk, I will explain what is the Novikov conjecture, why it is interesting, and how it is related to large scale geometry of groups via K-theory of C*-algebras.