Centre de recherches mathématiques
Université de Montréal

PROGRAMME

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Second Week

Short programme on analysis and resolution of singularities
August 18 - September 5, 2003

MONDAY, AUGUST 25
09:00 - 10:00
Registration (Room 5345)
10:00 - 11:30
E. Bierstone
Resolution of singularities (from an analyst's point of view)
Lecture 1:
Introduction. Blowing up and strict transform; main goals;
examples
14:00 - 15:30
D.H. Phong
Singularities in harmonic and geometric analysis
Lecture 1:
Singularities and critical integrability exponents
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break (Room 6245)
16:00 - 17:30
R. Melrose
Metrics, fibrations and singular spaces
Lecture 1:
Introduction: Invertibility of the Laplacian. Manifolds
with corners, b-maps, b-fibrations, real blow-up
TUESDAY, AUGUST 26
09:00 - 10:30
E. Bierstone
Resolution of singularities (from an analyst's point of view)
Lecture 2:
Transforming a function to normal crossings by
blowings-up. Proof of a simple version of resolution
of singularities
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break (Room 6245)
11:00 - 12:30
D.H. Phong
Singularities in harmonic and geometric analysis
Lecture 2:
Singularities and integral operators
15:00 - 16:30
R. Melrose
Metrics, fibrations and singular spaces
Lecture 2:
Pseudodifferential operators, composition, inverses.
Example: the conic case
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27
09:00 - 10:30
E. Bierstone
Resolution of singularities (from an analyst's point of view)
Lecture 3:
Desingularization of toric varieties. Combinatorial
resolution of singularities
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break (Room 6245)
11:00 - 12:30
D.H. Phong
Singularities in harmonic and geometric analysis
Lecture 3:
Canonical metrics in Kähler geometry
15:00 - 16:30
R. Melrose
Metrics, fibrations and singular spaces
Lecture 3:
Resolution of the spaces and metrics. Singular
(m-) fibrations and blow up. A conjecture
THURSDAY, AUGUST 28
09:00 - 10:30
E. Bierstone
Resolution of singularities (from an analyst's point of view)
Lecture 4:
Invariants and the desingularization principle.
Desingularization of parametrized families
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break (Room 6245)
11:00 - 12:30
D.H. Phong
Singularities in harmonic and geometric analysis
Lecture 4:
Singularities and energy functionals
15:00 - 16:30
R. Melrose
Metrics, fibrations and singular spaces
Lecture 4:
Stratified metrics and Hodge theory