Differential Geometry in the Large 2022

Jun 7, 2022, 9:00 AM → Jun 10, 2022, 5:10 PM Europe/Berlin

SR 1.067 (Mathematikgebäude) (KIT)

Philippe Kupper (KIT), Rafael Dahmen (KIT), Wilderich Tuschmann (KIT)

The conference will highlight recent advances in differential geometry and geometric analysis, aiming to foster communication between experts and young researchers as well as identifying potential new directions of further research in these fields.

Confirmed Speakers include so far:

    Christian Bär (Potsdam)
    Christoph Böhm (Münster)
    Nicola Cavallucci (Karlsruhe)
    Anand Dessai (Fribourg)
    Bernhard Hanke (Augsburg)
    Lynn Heller (Hannover)
    Tobias Lamm (Karlsruhe)
    Christian Lange (Munich)
    Thomas Richard (Paris)
    Stephan Stadler (MPI Bonn)
    Burkhard Wilking (Münster)
    Rudolf Zeidler (Münster)

 

The talks are supposed to take place between the morning of June 7 and early afternoon of June 10. The timetable can be found here.

 

Scientific Committee

    Gérard Besson
    Alexander Lytchak
    Wilderich Tuschmann

Local Organisers

    Rafael Dahmen
    Philippe Kupper
    Alexander Lytchak
    Wilderich Tuschmann

The conference poster can be found here.

 

 

                 

Tuesday, June 7

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Registration

10:00 AM → 10:50 AM Lynn Heller (Hannover)

Complex analytic methods in constructing harmonic maps from Riemann surfaces

10:50 AM → 11:20 AM Coffee Break

11:20 AM → 12:10 PM Anand Dessai (Fribourg)

Moduli spaces of metrics of nonnegative sectional curvature

3:00 PM → 3:50 PM Tobias Lamm (Karlsruhe)

Ricci flow of $W^{2,2}$-metrics in four dimensions

3:50 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee Break

4:20 PM → 5:10 PM Burkhard Wilking (Münster)

Positive sectional curvature, torus actions and matroids

Wednesday, June 8

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Registration

10:00 AM → 10:50 AM Christoph Böhm (Münster)

Non-Compact Einstein Manifolds with Symmetry

10:50 AM → 11:20 AM Coffe Break

11:20 AM → 12:10 PM Bernhard Hanke (Augsburg)

Lipschitz rigidity for scalar curvature

3:00 PM → 3:50 PM Thomas Richard (Paris)

Small 2-spheres in manifolds with positive scalar curvature

3:50 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee Break

4:20 PM → 5:10 PM Rudolf Zeidler (Münster)

Distance estimates and rigidity under lower scalar curvature bounds

Thursday, June 9

10:00 AM → 10:50 AM Nicola Cavallucci (Karlsruhe)

Collapsing of manifolds with non-positive curvature

10:50 AM → 11:20 AM Coffee Break

11:20 AM → 12:10 PM Stephan Stadler (MPI Bonn)

CAT(0) spaces of higher rank

6:30 PM → 9:30 PM Conference Dinner

Details will be available soon.

Friday, June 10

10:00 AM → 10:50 AM Christian Lange (Munich)

From billiards to Alexandrov spaces and Riemannian orbifolds

10:50 AM → 11:20 AM Coffee Break

11:20 AM → 12:10 PM Christian Bär (Potsdam)

Curvature flexibility for C^{1,1}-metrics