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1 Chern Centennial Conference Chern Institute of Mathematics (CIM) and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) October 24-28, 211 Chern Institute of Mathematics Nankai University, Tianjin, China Sponsors: National Natural Science Foundation of China Mathematical Center of Ministry of Education of China Tianjin Association for Science and Technology Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University School of Mathematical Sciences, Nankai University Center for Combinatorics, Nankai University Nankai University Web:

2 Academic Committee: Chairs: Phillip Griffiths and Wentsun Wu Members: Atiyah, Michael Berger, Marcel Bourguignon, Jean-Pierre Bryant, Robert Chang, Kung-Ching Fefferman, Charles Gindikin, Simon Gu, Chaohao Hirzebruch, Fritz Jiang, Boju Long, Yiming Ma, Zhiming Palis, Jacob Tian, Gang Weinstein, Alan Organizing Committee: Robert Bryant (Co-Chair, MSRI) Hélène Barcelo (MSRI) May Chu (S. S. Chern Foundation for Mathematical Research) Lei Fu (CIM) Yiming Long (Co-Chair, CIM) Local Organizing Committee of CIM Yongchuan Chen Mo-Lin Ge Guoding Hu (Horary-Chair) Weiping Zhang 2

3 Program at a glance Monday(Oct. 24) TuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday(Oct. (Oct. 2) (Oct. 26) (Oct. 27) 28) 9:-1: Openning Ceremony 8:3-9:3Y. J-M. Bismut R. Bryant S. Gindikin 4 Life & Achievements of P r o f. C h e r n - b y G.Tian Speeches Eliashberg 1:4-1Photo & time 9:3-9: Time 1: 9:-1: Y.B. Ruan J.X. Hong X.J. Wang A.M. Li 11:-1Speeches 11:-12W.P. Zhang N.M. Mok Z. M. S h e nx.c.rong 2: : (-11:4) (-11:4) 12:-1 Time 3: 2:-2:1C e r e m o n y f o r2:-2:4x.n. Ma Local Tour X.Z. Dai H.B. Duan H o n o r a r y Professorship 2:1-3:1J.-P. Bourguignon 2:-3:4F.Q. Fang J. Zhou C.P. Wang 3:1-3:2 Time 3:4-4:1 Time Time 3:2-4:2U. Simon 4:1-4:J.X. Fu F.Y. Wang 4:3-:3Speech by May Chu :-:J.Y. Li Film 6:-8:Banquet 6:-7:Dinner Time Speeches Oct.24 Lecture Hall on the second floor, Shiing-Shen Building Oct. 2-28: Lecture Hall on the first floor, Shiing-Shen Building 3

4 Oct 24, 211 Place: Lecture Hall on the second floor, Shiing-Shen Building Chair: Y.M. Long 9:-1:4 Openning ceremony Life & Achievements of Prof.Chern - by G. Tian Speeches 1:4-11: Group Photo and Chair: M.L. Ge 11:-12: Speeches Chair: W.P. Zhang 14:-14:1 Ceremony for Honorary Professorship 14:1-1:1 J-P. Bourguignon (IHES) Modern Geometry: from Local to Global, from Smooth to Rough, from Static to Dynamic Chair: L. Fu 1:2-16:2 U. Simon (TU-Berlin) Chern's studies at Hamburg University 16:3-17:3 Speech by May Chu Film 18:-2: Banquet Speeches

5 Oct 2, 211 Place: Lecture Hall on the first floor, Shiing-Shen Building 8:3-9:3 Y. Eliashberg (Stanford U.) Symplectic topology of affine complex manifolds 9:-1: Y.B. Ruan (U. Michigan) Gromov-Witten theory and quasi-modular forms 11:-12: W.P. Zhang (Nankai U., Tianjin) Dirac operators and vanishing theorems 14:-14:4 X.N. Ma (Univ. Paris 7.) Toeplitz operator and asymptotic analytic torsion 14:-1:4 F.Q. Fang (Capital Normal U., Beijing) Tits building and Positive Curvature 16:1-16: J.X. Fu (Fudan U., Shanghai) On Balanced Metrics 17: -17: J.Y. Li (USTC, Hefei & CAS, Beijing) On the symplectic mean curvature flows Dinner

6 Oct 26, 211 8:3-9:3 J-M. Bismut (U. Paris-Sud) The hypoelliptic Laplacian and Chern-Weil theory 9:-1: J.X. Hong (Fudan U., Shanghai) Isometric Embedding in R 3 of Aleksandroff Positive Disks 11:-12: N.M. Mok (Hong Kong U.) Geometric structures arising from tangents to minimal rational curves Local Tour 6

7 Oct 27, 211 8:3-9:3 R. Bryant (MSRI) Exterior Differential Systems in Path Geometries and Finsler Geometry 9:-1: X.J. Wang (Nat. U. Australia) Singularity profile in the mean curvature flow 11:-11:4 Z.M. Shen (Indiana-Purdue U.) Geometric Meanings of Curvatures in Finsler Geometry 14:-14:4 X.Z. Dai (UC-Santa Barbara) Eta Invariant and Holonomy 14:-1:4 J. Zhou (Tsinghua U., Beijing) Euler characteristics of tautological sheaves on Hilbert schemes of points 16:1-16: F.Y. Wang (Beijing Normal U.) Equivalent Semigroup Properties for the Curvature-Dimension Condition Dinner 7

8 Oct 28, 211 8:3-9:3 S. Gindikin (Rutgers U.) Horospheres and integral geometry on symmetric spaces 9:-1: A.M. Li (Sichuan U., Chengdu) The Extremal Kahler Metrics on Toric Mainfolds 11:-11:4 X.C. Rong (Rutgers U. and CNU, Beijing) A Chern's question on fundamental groups of positively curved manifolds 14:-14:4 H.B. Duan (CAS, Beijing) Schubert calculus and Cohomology of Lie groups 14:-1:4 C.P. Wang (Peking U., Beijing) Sub-Geometries of Lie Sphere Differential Geometry 8

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