Cartan Connections, Geometry of Homogeneous Spaces, and Dynamics

Schedule of talks, week one, July 11 - 15, 2011

Monday, July 11:

until 10:00Welcome and registration
10:00 - 11:00      M. Eastwood (ANU, Australia): "Conformal foliations and CR geometry"     Abstract    Presentation
11:00 - 11:30 coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 A. Derdzinski (Ohio State Univ., USA): "Two-jets of conformal fields along their zero sets, in any metric signature"     Abstract     Presentation
12:30 - 14:30 lunch break
14:30 - 15:30 M. Dunajski (Univ. Cambridge, UK): "G2-structures and twistor theory"    Presentation
15:30 - 16:00 coffee break
16:00 - 16:45 D. The (ANU, Australia): "The Lagrangian Grassmannian, hyperbolic PDE, and G2"    Presentation
16:45 - 17:00 break
17:00 - 17:45 B. Warhurst (Univ. New South Wales, Australia):"Ultrarigid tangents of sub-Riemannian nilpotent groups"    Abstract

Tuesday, July 12:

9:30 - 10:30     O. Biquard (Univ. Paris 7, France): "Einstein metrics and parabolic geometries"     Abstract
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 C. Frances (Univ. Paris Sud): "Essential singularities for higher dimensional conformal maps"      Abstract
12:00 - 14:00 lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 V. Matveev (Univ. Jena, Germany):"Conformal and isometric transformations of Finsler manifolds: Wang theorem, Matsumoto question, Deng-Hu conjecture, conformal invariants of finsler metrics and Lichnerowicz-Obata conjecture"    Abstract    Presentation
15:00 - 15:30 coffee break
15:30 - 16:15 M. Hammerl(Univ. Vienna, Austria): "Holonomy-reductions of Cartan connections"      Abstract
16:15 - 16:30 break
16:30 - 17:15 J. Merker (Univ. Orsay, France): "Effective Cartan-Tanaka connections on C6-smooth strongly pseudoconvex hypersurfaces M3 in C2"     Abstract    Presentation

Wednesday, July 13:

9:30 - 10:30     R. Graham (Univ. Washington, USA): "Ambient extension of parallel tractors"    Abstract
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 A. Juhl (Univ. Uppsala, Sweden):"Explicit formulas for GJMS-operators and Q-curvatures"    Abstract
12:00 - 14:00 lunch break
14:00 - 14:30 J. Case (Princeton Univ., USA): "Quasi-Einstein metrics and the tractor calculus"     Abstract
14:30 - 14:45 break
14:45 - 15:15 A. Taghavi-Chabert (Masaryk Univ. Czech Republic): "The Goldberg-Sachs theorem in higher dimensions"     Abstract
15:15 - 15:45 coffee break
15:45 - 16:15 M. Markowitz (Inform. Sec. Corp., USA): "Intrinsic Pseudodistances for Parabolic Geometries"     Abstract    Presentation
16:15 - 16:30 break
16:30 - 17:00 S. Krysl (Charles Univ., Czech Republic): "First order operators in projective contact geometry - a classification"     Abstract    Presentation
17:00 - 17:15 break
17:15 - 17:45 C. Luebbe (Univ. Leicester, UK):"Predicting / prescribing the location of conformal infinity"     Abstract

Thursday, July 14:

9:30 - 10:30     A.R. Gover (Univ. Auckland, New Zealand): "Projective BGG equations, algebraic sets, and compactifications of Einstein geometries"
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 T. Barbot (Univ. Avignon, France): "Spacetimes with Particles"
12:00 - 14:00 lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 P. Nurowski (Warsaw, Poland): "An analog of selfduality in dimension nine"
15:00 - 15:30 coffee break
15:30 - 16:30 B. McKay (Trinity College, Ireland): "Hartogs extension theorem for parabolic geometries"     Abstract
16:30 - 16:45 break
16:45 - 17:30 V. Zadnik (Masaryk Univ., Czech Republic): "On split signature conformal metrics induced by half-dimensional projective structures"     Abstract    Presentation

Friday, July 15:

9:00 - 10:30     B. Doubrov (Minsk, Belarus): "Conformal, symplectic and G2 structures on solution spaces of ODEs"
10:00 - 10:30 coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 I. Zelenko (Texas A&M Univ., USA): "Tanaka prolongation and symplectification procedure for filtered structures on manifolds"     Abstract
11:30 - 11:45 break
11:45 - 12:45 J. Alt (Univ. Wittwersrand, South Africa):"Some locally transitive actions on the Moebius sphere related to conformal holonomy"         Presentation