This is a complete list of all lectures which were deliviered during the program.
Past Lectures
Thursday, Jan. 8, 11:00 | Tohru Morimoto (Nara Women's University): "A general criterion for the existence of a Cartan connection and its application to sub-Riemannian structures" |
Tuesday, Jan. 13, 11:00 | Michael Cowling (University of New South Wales): "The Cayley transform and uniformly bounded representations" Abstract |
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 15:00 | Pawel Nurowski (Warsaw University): "G2 Cartan connection associated with equation z'=F(x,y,y',y'',z)" Abstract |
Friday, Jan. 16, 11:00 | Bent Ørsted (University of Southern Denmark):"A logarithmic Sobolev inequality in CR geometry" Abstract |
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 15:00 | Michael Eastwood (University of Adelaide): "Higher symmetries of the Laplacian" Abstract |
Friday, Jan. 30, 11:00 | Daniel Fox (Georgia Institute of Technology): "Contact Projective Structures" Abstract |
Thursday, Feb. 5, 11:00 | Boris Doubrov (Int. Sophus Lie Centre): "On locally homogeneous curves in homogeneous spaces" Abstract |
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 11:00 | Pierre Julg (Universite d'Orleans): "From C*-algebras to complexes on flag manifolds" |
Thursday, Feb. 12, 11:00 | Gerd Schmalz (Universität Bonn): "Non-linearizable CR automorphisms and shear-invariant second order ODE" Abstract |
Friday, Feb. 13, 11:00 | Keizo Yamaguchi (Hokkaido University): "Characterization of Hermitian symmetric spaces by fundamental forms" Abstract |
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 11:00 | Boris Doubrov (Int. Sophus Lie Centre): "Cartan geometries associated with differential equations" |
Thursday, Feb. 26, 15:00 | Olivier Biquard (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg): "Quaternionic Kähler metrics and their boundaries" Abstract |
Monday, March 1, 11:00 | Maria Barberis (Univ. Nac. de Cordoba): "Geometric structures on Lie groups" Abstract |
Tuesday, March 2, 11:00 | Annamaria Fino (Universita di Torino): "KT and HKT geometry" Abstract |
Tuesday, March 2, 15:00 | Matt Gursky (University of Notre Dame): "A fully nonlinear equation in conformal geometry and some applications" |
Wednesday, March 3, 15:00 | Alice Chang (Princeton University): "Q-curvature and renormalized volume" |
Thursday, March 4, 11:00 | Paul Yang (Princeton University): "On a notion of minimal surface in CR geometry" |
Thursday, March 4, 15:00 | Gregor Weingart (Universität Bonn): "Classification of Cartan geometries and spectral sequences" Abstract |
Wednesday, Mar. 10, 15:00 | Toby Bailey (University of Edinburgh): "Radon transforms and Fourier transforms" |
Thursday, Mar. 11, 15:00 | David Duchemin (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg): "Quaternionic contact structures in dimension 7" Abstract |
Wednesday, Mar. 17, 14:30 | Kengo Hirachi (University of Tokyo): "Volume renormalization of strictly pseudoconvex domains" Abstract |
Thursday, Mar. 18, 11:00 | William Ugalde (Purdue University): "A construction of critical GJMS operators using Wodzicki's residue" Abstract |
Friday, Mar. 19, 15:00 | Doojin Hong (University of Iowa): "Spectra of Higher Spin Operators on Spin 1/2 and Spin 3/2 fields" Abstract |
Wednesday, Mar. 24, 14:30, small seminar room | Lorenz Schwachhöfer (Universität Dortmund): "Special symplectic connections" Abstract |
Thursday, Mar. 25, 15:00, small seminar room | Dmitri Zaitsev (Trinity College, Dublin): "Lie group structures on groups of CR automorphisms" Abstract |
Tuesday, Mar. 30, 15:00 | Oussama Hijazi (Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy ): "Extrinsic Spin Geometry and Applications" Abstract |
Wednesday, Mar. 31, 14:30 | Thomas Branson (University of Iowa): "Detour complexes, half-torsion, and generalizations of the Q-curvature" Abstract |
Thursday, April 1, 15:00 | Robin Graham (University of Washington): "Jet isomorphisms in conformal geometry" |
Friday, April 2, 11:00 | Robert J. Stanton (Ohio State University): "Complex methods for real symmetric spaces" |
Monday, April 4, 11:00 | Paul-Andi Nagy (Humboldt-Universität Berlin): "Nearly Kähler manifolds with symmetries" Abstract |
Tuesday, April 6, 11:00 | Krzysztof Galicki (MPI - University of New Mexico): "Transverse Fano Structures and Einstein Metrics on Exotic Spheres" Abstract |
Tuesday, April 6, 15:00 | Felipe Leitner (Universität Leipzig): "Twistor spinors with zeros in Lorentzian geometry" Abstract |
Wednesday, April 7, 15:00 | Vladimir Soucek (Charles University, Prague): "Analogues of the Dolbeault complex in several Clifford variables" Abstract |
Wednesday, April 21, 14:30, room C 2.09 | Jacek Tafel (University of Warsaw): "Conformal compactification and gravitational radiation" Abstract |