Centre de recherches mathématiques
Université de Montréal

Short Programme in Riemannian Geometry

June 28 - July 15, 2004

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Short courses - June 28-July 2
Lecture room : 1355
Monday, June 28
08:30 Registration (Room 5345)
09:00-09:30 Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30-10:30 K. Grove
"Comparison Geometry I"
11:00-12:00 M. Anderson
"Complete Einstein metrics on open manifolds I"
14:00-15:00 Discussions
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break (Room 1221)
15:30-16:30

Tuesday, June 29
09:00-09:30 Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30-10:30 K. Grove
"Comparison Geometry II"
11:00-12:00 M. Anderson
"Complete Einstein metrics on open manifolds II"
14:00-15:00 Discussions
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break (Room 1221)
15:30-16:30 N.J. Hitchin
"Low-dimensional geometry - a variational approach II"

Wednesday, June 30
09:00-09:30 Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30-10:30 K. Grove
"Comparison Geometry III"
11:00-12:00 M. Anderson
"Complete Einstein metrics on open manifolds III"
14:00-15:00 Discussions
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break (Room 1221)
15:30-16:30 N.J. Hitchin
"Low-dimensional geometry - a variational approach III"
16:30 Wine & Cheese (Room 1221)

Thursday, July 1
09:00-09:30 Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30-10:30 K. Grove
"Comparison Geometry IV"
11:00-12:00 M. Anderson
"Complete Einstein metrics on open manifolds IV"
14:00-15:00 Disucssions
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break (Room 1221)
15:30-16:30 N.J. Hitchin
"Low-dimensional geometry - a variational approach IV"

Friday, July 2
09:00-09:30 Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30-10:30 M. Anderson
"Complete Einstein metrics on open manifolds V"
11:00-12:00 N.J. Hitchin
"Low-dimensional geometry - a variational approach V"
Workshop July 5 - 15, 2004
Lecture Room 1355
Monday, July 5
08:30 Registration (Room 5345)
09:00-09:30 Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30-10:30 C. Boyer
"Einstein metrics on spheres"
11:00-12:00 M. Anderson
"Dehn surgery construction of Einstein metrics"
13:30-14:30 A. Nabutovsky
"Fractal nature of Riem/Diff and other moduli space in
Riemannian geometry
"
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break (Room 1221)
15:00-16:00 A. Fraser
"Variation theory for volume"
16:10-17:10 A. Butscher
"Gluing constructions and special Lagrangian cones"
Tuesday, July 6
09:00-09:30 Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30-10:30 B. Wilking
"Positively curved cohomogeneity one manifolds"
11:00-12:00 W. Ziller
"Fatness"
13:30-14:00 K. Shankar
"Spherical Rank Rigidity and Blaschke Manifolds"
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break (Room 1221)
15:00-16:00 R. Rotman
"The length of a shortest closed geodesic and the
smallest area of a minimal surface
"
16:10-17:10 I. Petursson
"Almost positive isotropic curvature and surgery"
Wednesday, July 7
09:00-09:30 Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30-10:30 O. Biquard
"Einstein metrics and an eta invariant of CR
3-manifolds
"
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break (Room 1221)
11:00-12:00 W.-D. Ruan
"Degeneration of Kahler-Einstein Manifolds"
13:30-14:00 G. Craig
"Asymptotically Hyperbolic Einstein Manifolds and Dehn
Filling
"
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break (Room 1221)
Thursday, July 8
09:00-09:30 Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30-10:30 J. Lohkamp
"The General Positive Energy Theorem"
11:00-12:00 N. Kamran
"Scalar and spinor wave equations in Kerr geometry"
13:30-14:30 M. Herzlich
"Mass formulae for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds"
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break (Room 1221)
15:00-16:00 M. Kraus
"Curvature estimates on asymptotically
flat Lorentzian manifolds
"
16:10-17:10 D. Duchemin
"Quaternionic contact structures in dimension 7"
17:10 Wine & Cheese (Room 6245)

Friday, July 9
09:00-09:30 Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30-10:30 C. Boehm
"Homogeneous Einstein metrics"
11:00-12:00 G. Papadopoulos
"Spinor, Spinorial and Spin Cohomology"
13:30-14:30 M. Min-Oo
"Calibrated cycles in non-compact manifolds of
exceptional holonomy
"
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break (Room 1221)
15:00-16:00 S. Karigiannis
"New Examples of coassociative submanifolds"
16:10-17:10 M. Ionel
"Families of Calibrated Submanifolds in C^4"

Monday, July 12
08:30 Registration (Room 5345)
09:00-09:30 Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30-10:30 C. LeBrun
"Zoll Manifolds, Complex Surfaces, and Holomorphic Disks"
11:00-12:00 P. Gauduchon
"The Bochner-flat geometry of weighted projective
spaces
"
13:30-14:30 R. Bielawski
"Kaehler metrics on complexified symmetric spaces"
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break (Room 1221)
15:00-16:00 G. Maschler
TBA
16:10-17:10 H. Davaux
"Scalar curvature and spectrum of the Laplacian"
17:20 -18:00 M. Parton
"Vaisman and locally conformal hyperKaehler reduction"

Tuesday, July 13
09:00-09:30 Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30-10:30 David J.M. Calderbank
"Toric self-dual Einstein metrics I"
11:00-12:00 Y. Rollin
"On scalar-flat Kaehler surface"
13:30-14:30 D.N. Page
"Compact Kerr-de Sitter Einstein Metrics in All Higher
Dimensions
"
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break (Room 1221)
15:00-16:00 S. Ivanov
"Compact Einstein $G_2$-manifold with closed
fundamental form
"
16:10-17:10 A.-M. Fino
"Conformally parallel G_2-structures on a class of
solvmanifolds
"

Wednesday, July 14
09:00-09:30 Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30-10:30 R. Bryant
"Gradient Ricci solitons"
11:00-12:00 A. Dancer
"Superpotentials and the Einstein equations"
13:30-14:30 M. Dunajski
"Admissible families of rational curves, hidden
symmetries, and solitons
"
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break (Room 1221)
15:00-16:00 David J.M. Calderbank
"Toric self-dual Einstein metrics II"
16:10-17:10 C. Tonnesen-Friedman
"Extremal Kahler Metrics on (blown-down) 6-Manifolds"
17:10 Reception (Room 6245)

Thursday, July 15
09:00-09:30 Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30-10:30 B. Alexandrov
"On weak holonomy"
11:00-12:00 G. Grantcharov
"Compact complex homogeneous spaces with vanishing
first Chern class
"
13:30-14:30 M. Gualtieri
"Introduction to generalized Kahler geometry"
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break (Room 1221)
15:00-16:00 H. Joergensen
"Fully homogeneous para-quaternionic K\"ahler
manifolds
"
16:10-17:10 R. Moraru
"Stable bundles on Hopf manifolds"
17:10 Reception (Room 6245)

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