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About the conference
The 9th
Pacific Rim
Geometry
Conference will be held at Taipei from Dec 10 to Dec 14. The Pacific
Rim Geometry
Conference has been held every two
years since 1992, with previous meetings occurring at Murramarang,
Australia (2006), Shanghai (2004), Hong Kong (2002), Sendai (2000),
Vancouver (1998), Seoul (1996), Singapore (1994), and Hong Kong (1992).
The main purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers
from Pacific Rim countries that are interested in areas related to
geometry. The conference serves as a means to disseminate the most
recent research developments and to cultivate working relationships
among its participants.Invited Speakers:
- Kazuo Akutagawa (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
- Robert Bartnik (Monash University, Australia)
- Shu-Cheng Chang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
- Jih-Hsin Cheng (Academic Sinica, Taiwan)
- Jaigyoung Choe (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korean)
- Martin Guest (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
- Mark Haskins (Imperial College London, UK)
- Yng-Ing Lee (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
- Naichung Conan Leung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
- Melissa Liu (Columbia University, USA)
- Zhiqin Lu (UC Irvine, USA)
- Richard Schoen (Stanford University, USA)
- Chiung-Jue Sung (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
- Luen Fai Tam (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
- Chuu-Lian Terng (UC Irvine, USA)
- Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia University, USA)
- Ching-Lung Wang (National Central University, Taiwan)
- Takao Yamaguchi (Tsukuba University, Japan)
- Xi-Ping Zhu (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
Contributed Talks:
There
are also some contributed talks during the Conference. Each
talk is 30 minutes with 25 minutes presentation and 5 minutes
reserved for questions and answers. For those who are interested in
contributing a talk, please email prg2008@math.ntu.edu.tw and
submit your title and abstract by
October 15, 2008. We shall decide
the contibuted talks by November 1,
2008
Organizers:
- Robert Bartnik (Monash University, Australia)
- Yng-Ing Lee (National Taiwan University)
- Chang-Shou
Lin
(National Taiwan University)
- Richard Schoen (Stanford University, USA)
- Mao-Pei Tsui (University of Toledo, USA)
- Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia University, USA)
Sponsors:
- National Science Council, Taiwan
- Taida Institute for Mathematical Sciences (TIMS)
- Mathematics Division,National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS), Taipei Office