SFB 478   Geometrische Strukturen in der Mathematik

Workshop on Curvature and Global Shape



Program

(As of August 06; check regularly for updates!)


Monday, August 4, 2003

Chair: N. N.   
  9:00 -   9:30 Registration (Room 414, 4th floor)
  9:30 - 10:30 K. Grove, Almost rotationally symmetric manifolds with positive curvature
10:30 - 11:00 Registration (Room 414, 4th floor)
10:30 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea and discussions
11:30 - 12:30 B. Totaro, Nonnegative curvature and classification of biquotient manifolds
Chair: B.Wilking
14:30 - 15:15 K. Tapp, Quasi-positive curvature on homogeneous bundles
15:15 - 16:00 Coffee/Tea and discussions
16:00 - 16:45 L. Guijarro, Obstructions to fatness


Tuesday, August 05, 2003

Chair: W. Ballmann
  9:30 - 10:15 P. Ghanaat, Bochner's Theorem and eigenvalue pinching
10:30 - 11:15 Ch. Bär, Topological restriction for small Dirac eigenvalues
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee/Tea and discussions
11:45 - 12:30 M. Joachim, The Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg Conjecture for Z/2 x Z/2
Chair: V. Schroeder
14:30 - 15:15 U. Semmelmann, An upper bound for a Hilbert polynomial on quaternion Kähler manifolds
15:15 - 16:00 Coffee/Tea and discussions
16:00 - 16:45 S. Engel, Geometry and trigonometry of homogeneous 3- manifolds with 4-dimensional isometry group


Wednesday, August 06, 2003

Chair: K.Grove
  9:30 - 10:30 L. Schwachhöfer, Special symplectic connections
10:30 - 11:15 Coffee/Tea and discussions
11:15 - 12:00 B. Wilking, Singular Riemannian foliations in nonnegative curvature
13:45 Bicycle tour


Thursday, August 07, 2003

Chair: C. Bär
  9:30 - 10:15 V. Schroeder, Imbeddings into products of trees
10:30 - 11:15 A. Lytchak, Spherical buildings and joins
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee/Tea and discussions
11:45 - 12:30 R. Gunesch, Counting closed geodesics in nonpositive curvature
Chair: P. Ghanaat
14:30 - 15:15 I. A. Taimanov, Tame integrals of geodesic flows and 0-minimal structures
15:15 - 16:00 Coffee/Tea and discussions
16:00 - 16:45 J. Eschenburg, Adapted submanifols of symmetric spaces


Friday, August 08, 2003

Chair: J. Eschenburg
  9:30 - 10:15 A. Petrunin, An integral curvature estimate via collapsing
10:30 - 11:15 Ch. Böhm, Non-existence of homogeneous Einstein metrics
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee/Tea and discussions
11:45 - 12:30 L. Verdiani, Obstructions to non-negative curvature in cohomogeneity one
Chair: K. Tapp
14:30 - 15:00 T. Püttmann, Injectivity radius and diameter of the manifolds with flags in the projective planes
15:15 - 15:45 J. Itoh, Cut loci and conjugate loci on ellipsoids
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee/Tea and discussions
16:15 - 16:45 C. Searle, How tightly can you fold a sphere?
17:00 - 17:30 O. Dearricott, Inhomogeneous 3-Sasakian metrics deforming to positive sectional curvature


Saturday, August 09, 2003

Chair: L. Schwachhöfer
  9:30 - 10:30 Y.-A. Kordyukov, Trace formulas in spectral geometry of Riemannian foliations
10:30 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea and discussions
11:30 - 12:30 W. Ziller, Geometry and topology of cohomogeneity one manifolds
Chair: W. Ziller
14:30 - 15:00 A. Kollross Homogeneous Spaces with Sections
15:00 - 16:00 Coffee/Tea and discussions
16:00 - 17:00 W. Tuschmann, Quotient spaces of positive Ricci curvature
18:00 Party at the home of W.T. Meyer, Küperweg 15, Roxel.
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The lectures will be given in Lecture Room M 5, Mathematisches Institut, Einsteinstr. 64. The rooms for the discussions are M 4, M 5, and M 6.



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