SFB 478 Geometrische Strukturen in der Mathematik
| Chair: D. Gromoll | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Registration (Room 414, 4th floor) |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | U. Hamenstädt, Word hyperbolic extensions of surface groups |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Registration (Room 414, 4th floor) |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Coffee/Tea and discussions |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | M. Kapovich, Critical exponent and cohomological dimension of Kleinian groups |
| Chair: B. Wilking | |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | C. Croke, Rigidity and stability of some sharp isoperimetric inequalities on surfaces |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Coffee/Tea and discussions |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | K. Shankar, Dehn functions for finitely presented groups |
| Chair: H. Karcher | |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | W. Ziller, Cohomogeneity one manifolds with positive sectional curvature |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | J. Eschenburg, Isoparametric hypersurface families and positive curvature |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Coffee/Tea and discussions |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | O. Dearricott, n-Sasakian manifolds |
| Chair: E. Heintze | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | J. Berndt, Cohomogeneity one actions on noncompact symmetric spaces |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee/Tea and discussions |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | A. Kollross, Polar actions on symmetric spaces |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | K. Tapp, Obstruction to positive curvature on homogeneous bundles |
| Chair: C. Searle, | |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | K. Galicki, Geometric structures on 5-manifolds |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Coffee/Tea and discussions |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Th. Küssner, Hyperbolic 3-manifolds of small volume |
| 13:45 | Bicycle tour |
| Chair: L. Mare, | |
| 9:30 - 10:15 | C. Böhm, Ricci flow and nonnegative sectional curvature |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Coffee/Tea and discussions |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | D. Wraith, New connected sums with positive Ricci curvature |
| 11:40 - 12:30 | A. Wienhard,
Tight imbeddings of Hermitian symmetric spaces and applications |
| Chair: J. Lohkamp, | |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | A. Lytchak, Regularity of spaces with curvature bounded above |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Coffee/Tea and discussions |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | K. Nagano, A sphere theorem for CAT(1) spaces |
| Chair: L. Guijarro, | |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | A. Petrunin,
On fundamental groups of manifolds with lower sectional curvature bounds |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Coffee/Tea and discussions |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | V. Kapovitch,
On fundamental groups of manifolds with lower Ricci curvature bounds |
| Chair: U. Christ, | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | P. Frank, The fundamental group of positively curved manifolds with symmetries |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | N. Lebedeva, Capacity dimension of locally self-similar spaces |
| 15:40 - 16:15 | Coffee/Tea and discussions |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | J. Heber, Harmonic and asymptotically harmonic homogeneous spaces |
| Chair: L. Verdiani, | |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Th. Püttmann,
A minimal Brieskorn 5-sphere in the
Gromoll Meyer sphere and its applications |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Coffee/Tea and discussions |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | G. Weingart, Positivity of the standard Laplace Operator |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | L. Schwachhöfer, Special symplectic connections |
| Chair: J. Berndt, | |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | I. Taimanov, Surfaces in three-dimensional Lie groups |
| 18:00 | Party
at the home of
W.T. Meyer, Küperweg 15, Roxel. |
The lectures will be given in Lecture Room M 3, Mathematisches Institut, Einsteinstr. 64. The rooms for discussions are in the Main Building: The Sitzungszimmer on the plaza level and Room SR 1 on the first floor.