| Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Title: Q-curvature in Conformal Geometry
Abstract: Q-curvature is a notion introduced by Paneitz-Branson
in the early 1980th initially defined on manifolds of
dimension four; and which is a direct generalization of
the Gaussian curvature on compact surface. In recent years,
there has been intensive effort to study the subject
mainly due to its conformal invariant property and
its connection to some geometric invariants in the
asymptotic hyperbolic, conformally compact Einstein
manifolds. In this talk, I will give a survey of
the subject with emphasize on applications to
problems in conformal geometry.
Speaker: Sun-Yung Alice Chang
Institution: Princeton University
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