Workshop “Spectral Invariants on Non-compact and Singular Spaces”

July 23-27, 2012

Program

 

Monday, July 23, 2012

08:30 - 09:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Jean-Michel Bismut
(Université de Paris-Sud )
The hypoelliptic Laplacian
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Siye Wu
(The University of Hong Kong)
Index gerbe and differential K-theory
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Bert-Wolfgang Schulze
(Universität Potsdam )
Ellipticity of operators on stratified spaces
Abstract
12:30 - 15:30
Lunch break
15:30 - 16:30
Tanya Christiansen
(University of Missouri)
Inverse obstacle scattering with generalized backscattering data in only one or two directions
Abstract
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
17:00 - 18:00
David Borthwick
(Emory University)
The distribution of resonances for potential scattering in hyperbolic space
Abstract

 

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Richard Melrose
(MIT)
Eta invariant on articulated manifolds
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Mathai Varghese
(University of Adelaide)
Geometry of Pseudodifferential algebra bundles and FIOs
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Jinsung Park
(Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
Eta invariant and Chern-Simons invariant for Schottky hyperbolic
Abstract
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30
Dean Baskin
(Northwestern University)
Asymptotics of radiation fields in asymptotically Minkowski space
Abstract
15:30 - 16:30
Zhiqin Lu
(UC Irvine)
On the essential spectrum of complete Riemannian manifolds
Abstract
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
17:00 - 18:00
Jeremy Marzuola
(Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Dispersive estimates on polygons
Abstract

 

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Jared Wunsch
(Northwestern University)
Decay of waves on conic manifolds
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
András Vasy
(Stanford University)
The Laplacian on differential forms on asymptotically hyperbolic spaces
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Kiril Datchev
(MIT)
Fractal Weyl laws for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds
Abstract
12:30
Lunch Break and Free Afternoon

19:00
Banquet - Restaurant Chez Queux (158, St-Paul Street East, Old Montreal)

 

Thursday, July 26, 2012

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Xiaonan Ma
(Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7)
Asymptotics of the analytic torsion
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Spyros Alexakis
(University of Toronto)
Loss of compactness and bubbling in the space of complete minimal surfaces in hyperbloc space
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Colin Guillarmou
(École Normale supérieure)
Microlocal limits of plane waves and scattering phase asymptotics
Abstract
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30
Gerardo Mendoza
(Temple University)
Vanishing and embedding theorems of manifolds with R-action
Abstract
15:30 - 16:30
Michael Singer
(The University of Edinburgh)
Asymptotics of partial density functions
Abstract
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
17:00 - 18:00
Maxim Braverman
(Northeastern University)
TBA

 

Friday, July 27, 2012

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Ken-Ichi Yoshikawa
(Kyoto University)
Singularities and analytic torsion
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Jochen Brüning
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Some remarks on the signature operator on Witt spaces
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Chris Kottke
(Brown University)
A very smooth Dirac operator on loop space
Abstract
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30
Xianzhe Dai
(University of California, Santa Barbara )
Bismut-Cheeger's eta form for manifolds with boundary
Abstract
15:30 - 16:30
Daniel Grieser
(Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
The spectrum of triangles
Abstract
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee, tea, cookies
Room(s) 6245