Conference Schedule

Talks will be scheduled from the morning of Monday (July 24) through the afternoon of Friday (July 28) with a bicycle tour on Wednesday afternoon and a party on Friday evening. Each invited participant who would like to talk is welcome to submit a suggestion.

All talks will be given in lecture room M5 of the lecture hall building (building #1 on the local map).

Monday, July 24:

Room M5

8:00 - 9:15	Registration (Room SR 0, Einsteinstr 62)
9:20 - 9:30	Opening
9:30 - 10:30	Lee Kennard (Oklahoma), Positive curvature and torus symmetry
10:30 - 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15	Anna Siffert (MPI Bonn), Existence of metrics maximizing the first eigenvalue on closed surfaces
12:15 - 14:15	Lunch break/Registration (Room 411, Einsteinstr 62)
14:15 - 15:15	Luigi Verdiani (Florence), Prescribed Ricci curvature on cohomogeneity-one manifolds
15:15 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30	David Wraith (Maynooth), Positive Ricci curvature metrics on the sphere: homotopy groups of the observer moduli space

Tuesday, July 25:

Room M5

9:30 - 10:30	Hans-Bert Rademacher (Leipzig), Critical values of homology classes of loops and positive curvature
10:30 - 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15	Catherine Searle (Wichita State), The maximal symmetry rank conjecture for non-negatively curved manifolds
12:15 - 14:15	Lunch break
14:15 - 15:15	Ricardo Mendes (Köln), Minimal hypersurfaces in compact symmetric spaces
15:15 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30	Wolfgang Ziller (UPenn), Finsler metrics with constant curvature

Wednesday, July 26:

Room M5

9:30 - 10:30	Marco Radeschi (Notre Dame), Odd dimensional Besse orbifolds are manifolds
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40	Llohann Sperança (São Paulo), Totally geodesic Riemannian foliations on compact Lie groups
11:40 - 11:50	Short break
11:50 - 12:30	David González (Madrid), Non-negative sectional curvature on stable classes of vector bundles
12:30 -	Lunch break
14:00 -	Bicycle trip

Thursday, July 27:

Room M5

9:30 - 10:30	Christoph Böhm (Münster), Homogeneous Ricci flows
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40	Frank Reidegeld (Dortmund), $G_2$-orbifolds with ADE-singularities
11:40 - 11:50	Short break
11:50 - 12:30	Jaime Santos Rodríguez (Madrid), Isometries and Ricci curvature on metric measure spaces
12:30 - 14:15	Lunch break
14:15 - 15:15	Brett Kotschwar (Arizona State), Asymptotic rigidity of noncompact shrinking gradient Ricci solitons
15:15 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30	Alexander Lytchak (Köln) Geodesic flow on singular spaces

Friday, July 28:

Room M5

9:30 - 10:30	Renato Bettiol (UPenn), Non-negative sectional curvature and Weitzenböck formulae
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40	Diego Corro Tapia (Karlsruhe), Positive Ricci curvature on manifolds with large torus actions
11:40 - 11:50	Short break
11:50 - 12:30	Matthias Ludewig (MPI Bonn), The mass of conformal Laplacians
12:30 - 14:15	Lunch break
14:15 - 15:15	Nina Lebedeva (St. Petersburg), Dipole curvature condition for metric spaces
15:15 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30	Christian Bär (Potsdam), Boundary value problems for the Dirac operator on Riemannian and Lorentzian manifolds
19:00	Conference party

The coffee breaks will be on the ground floor of the math building.



For the party as well as the bicycle tour accompanying persons are welcome to attend.
People who want to participate in the tour and need a bicycle should let us know if they have not already done so.