Prospects in Geometry 1997

Tentative program

All lectures will be held in Sophus-Lie-Seminarraum (A 01),
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Inselstraße 22).

Thursday, November 20, 1997

09:30 - 10:30

D. Salamon   (Warwick)
Stable maps, Gromov compactness, and the Arnold conjecture

11:00 - 12:00

Bernd Siebert   (MIT, Cambridge, USA)
"Virtual techniques" in Gromov-Witten theory

15:00 - 16:00

Claude Viterbo   (Orsay)
Isoperimetric inequalities in symplectic geometry

16:30 - 17:30

S. Ivanov   (St. Petersburg)
Volume growth problems for periodic metrics

Friday, November 21, 1997

09:30 - 10:30

M. Burger   (Zurich)
Lattices and products of trees

11:00 - 12:00

F. Labourie   (Paris)
Surfaces of constant extrinsic curvature in negatively curved 3-manifolds

15:00 - 16:00

W. Lück   (Münster)
Dimension theory of arbitrary modules over finite von Neumann algebras and applications to L2-Betti numbers

16:30 - 17:30

U. Pinkall   (Berlin)
Differential geometry of surfaces and quaternionic algebraic geometry

Saturday, November 22, 1997

09:30 - 10:30

Gerhard Huisken   (Tübingen)
Singularities of mean curvature flow for positively curved surfaces

11:00 - 12:00

Tom Ilmanen   (Leipzig)
The Riemannian Penrose Inequality

15:00 - 16:00

Gudlaugur Thorbergsson   (Köln)
Morse theory of submanifolds

16:30 - 17:30

Ernst Heintze   (Augsburg)
Lie groups and submanifold geometry

Date and Location

November 20 - 22, 1997
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstraße 22
04103 Leipzig
Germany
see travel instructions

Scientific Organizers

Jürgen Jost
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Hans-Bert Rademacher
Leipzig University

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