conference
31.03.25 04.04.25

Geometry at Infinity


International Conference on Differential Geometry, Geometric Topology, and Global Analysis

This is the second conference covering the entire thematic breadth of the DFG Priority Programme SPP 2026 "Geometry at Infinity''. In plenary lectures, important developments in the research areas of the Priority Programme will be presented by internationally leading scientists. In addition, the members of the Priority Programme will report on their research results from the second funding period in parallel sessions.

Plenary speakers:

  • Richard Bamler (Berkeley)
  • Federica Fanoni (Paris-Est Crétail)
  • Gustav Holzegel (Münster)
  • Dawid Kielak (Oxford)
  • Alexander Lytchak (Karlsruhe)
  • Kathryn Mann (Cornell)
  • Eleonora Di Nezza (Paris)
  • Daniele Semola (Wien)
  • Zoe Wyatt (Cambridge)
  • Rudolf Zeidler (Potsdam)

Furthermore, we have some important information for SPP members.

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Program

14:00 - 14:25
14:25 - 14:30
14:30 - 15:30 Kathryn Mann
Recent developments in pseudo-Anosov flows
15:30 - 16:30
16:30 - 17:30 Daniele Semola
Closed manifolds with positive Ricci curvature and large nilpotent fundamental groups
17:30 - 20:30
08:45 - 09:00
09:00 - 10:00 Dawid Kielak
Virtual fibring of Poincaré-duality groups
10:00 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:00 Federica Fanoni
From curve graphs to fine curve graphs, and back
12:00 - 12:10
12:10 - 14:30
14:30 - 15:00 Alexander Engel
Coarse assembly maps and exactness
14:30 - 15:00 Simone Cecchini
Lipschitz rigidity for scalar curvature
14:30 - 15:00 Elisa Hartmann
Geometric invariants of locally compact groups, homological version
14:30 - 15:00 Florian Litzinger
Curve shortening flow in high codimension
15:10 - 15:40 Oliver Schnürer
Noncompact mean curvature flows
15:10 - 15:40 Felix Physiker
Some connections between coarse homotopy theory and shape theory
15:10 - 15:40 José Pedro Quintanilha
Geometric invariants for locally compact groups - the homotopical perspective
15:10 - 15:40 Lukas Schönlinner
Abstract cone operators and Lipschitz rigidity for scalar curvature
15:40 - 16:30
16:30 - 17:00 Anke Pohl
Spectral theory with twists
16:30 - 17:00 Masoumeh Zarei
Ricci flow emerging from singular spaces with bounded curvature
16:30 - 17:00 Steffen Kionke
Volume is a profinite invariant of higher rank locally symmetric spaces
16:30 - 17:00 Onirban Islam
An equivariant index theorem on Lorentzian manifolds
17:10 - 17:40 Miles Simon
Ricci flow with Lp bounded scalar curvature
17:10 - 17:40 Christopher Wulff
E-Theory for non-separable C*-algebras
17:10 - 17:40 Isobel Davies
Apartment systems of complete CAT(0) spaces
Attention: this event is cancelled.
17:10 - 17:40 Lennart Ronge
Perturbation of APS boundary conditions in Lorentzian index theory
17:50 - 18:20 Benjamin Delarue
Geometric structures and Axiom A flows for Anosov subgroups
17:50 - 18:20 Eske Ewert
Boundary value problems and partial group actions
08:45 - 09:00
09:00 - 10:00 Alexander Lytchak
Minimal surfaces in metric spaces
10:00 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:00 Eleonora Di Nezza
The variational approach for canonical metrics in Kähler geometry
12:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 15:00 Anand Dessai
Moduli spaces of metrics with nonnegative sectional or Ricci curvature
14:30 - 15:00 Frieder Jäckel
Negatively curved Einstein metrics on closed manifolds
14:30 - 15:00 Thomas Mettler
Flat extensions of principal connections and the Chern-Simons 3-form
15:10 - 15:40 Claudio Meneses
Variations of stability and hyper-Kähler structures on moduli of parabolic Higgs bundles
15:10 - 15:40 Diego Corro
Deformations of singular Riemannian foliations while controlling the curvature
15:10 - 15:40 Daniel Grieser
The Dirichlet-Neumann operator for fibred cusp geometries
15:40 - 16:30
16:30 - 17:00 Klaus Kröncke
On stability and scalar curvature rigidity of quaternion-Kähler manifolds
16:30 - 17:00 Nadine Große
Boundary value problems on singular domains
16:30 - 17:00 Hartmut Weiß
Parabolic Higgs bundles and gravitational instantons
17:10 - 17:40 Lothar Schiemanowski
Deligne-Hitchin moduli space and harmonic maps into hyperbolic 3-space passing through the sphere at infinity
17:10 - 17:40 Karl-Theodor Sturm
Gradient and transport estimates for the heat flow on non-convex domains
17:10 - 17:40 Álvaro Sánchez Hernández
The index theorem on manifolds with fibred boundary metrics
19:00 - 00:00
08:45 - 09:00
09:00 - 10:00 Richard Bamler
On the multiplicity one conjecture for mean curvature flows of surfaces
10:00 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:00 Rudolf Zeidler
Rigidity in scalar curvature geometry
12:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 15:00 Jonathan Glöckle
Dominant energy condition: From initial data sets to spacetimes
14:30 - 15:00 Lynn Heller
Minimal surfaces and alternating multiple zetas
14:30 - 15:00 Paul Zellhofer
Kostant convexity for Kac-Moody groups
15:10 - 15:40 Thomas Schick
Geometric Chern characters in p-adic equivariant K-theory
15:10 - 15:40 Sebastian Hensel
Homeomorphism groups of surfaces via fine curve graphs
15:10 - 15:40 Annachiara Piubello
A geometric choice of asymptotically Euclidean coordinates via STCMC-foliations
15:40 - 16:30
16:30 - 17:00 Oliver Fürst
Regularized index theory for non-Fredholm Dirac-Schrödinger operators
16:30 - 17:00 Markus Wolff
Foliations of asymptotically Schwarzschildean lightcones by surfaces of constant spacetime mean curvature
16:30 - 17:00 Mitul Islam
Divergence in the Hitchin component
17:10 - 17:40 Stefan Drigalla
Geometric property (T) and sofic approximations
17:10 - 17:40 Boris Vertman
Mean curvature flow in Lorentzian space times
17:10 - 17:40 Rodrigo Avalos
Asymptotic analysis of isolated gravitational systems
08:45 - 09:00
09:00 - 10:00 Gustav Holzegel
Stability and instability of asymptotically anti-de Sitter black holes
10:00 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:00 Zoe Wyatt
Nonlinear stability of supersymmetric spacetimes
12:00 - 12:10

Participants

Vadim Alekseev

TU Dresden

Bernd Ammann

Universität Regensburg

Jacques Audibert

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Rodrigo Avalos

Universität Tübingen

Carsten Balleier

German Research Foundation (DFG)

Richard Bamler

UC Berkeley

Christian Bär

Potsdam University

Wolfram Bauer

Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Analysis

Sven-Ole Behrend

CAU Kiel

Balázs Márk Békési

Leibniz Universität Hannover

Jean-Baptiste Bellynck

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

Jonathan Bowden

University of Regensburg

Laura Breitkopf

University of Bremen

Samuel Bronstein

MPI-MIS

Lennart Buchwald

Uni Leipzig

Ulrich Bunke

Universität Regensburg

Kai-Uwe Bux

Universität Bielefeld

Simone Cecchini

Texas A&M

Dorian Chanfi

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Albachiara Cogo

University of Tuebingen

Alessandro Pietro Contini

Leibniz Universität Hannover

Diego Corro

Cardiff University

Benjamin Delarue

Universität Paderborn

Anand Dessai

University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Eleonora Di Nezza

Sorbonne Unviersité

Daniel Dorado

Universität Bonn

Stefan Drigalla

Universität Leipzig

Daniel Echtler

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Alexander Engel

Universität Greifswald

Nikolas Eptaminitakis

Leibniz Universität Hannover

Eske Ewert

Leibniz Universität Hannover

Federica Fanoni

CNRS and University Paris-Est Créteil

Georg Frenck

University of Augsburg

Helge Frerichs

University of Augsburg

Valerie Freund

Leipzig University

Oliver Fürst

University of Bonn

Giuseppe Gentile

Leibniz Universität Hannover

Jonathan Glöckle

Universität Regensburg

Melanie Graf

Universität Hamburg

Daniel Grieser

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

Nadine Große

Universität Freiburg

Batu Güneysu

Technische Universität Chemnitz

Florian Hanisch

Universität Potsdam

Bernhard Hanke

Augsburg University

Elisa Hartmann

Bielefeld University

Paula Heim

University of Oxford & MPI MiS Leipzig

Lynn Heller

BIMSA

Sebastian Hensel

LMU München

Gustav Holzegel

Universitaet Muenster

Andreas Huber

Universität Augsburg

Onirban Islam

Universität Potsdam

Mitul Islam

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Frieder Jäckel

University of Bonn

Magali Jay

MPI

Nat Kendal-Freedman

MPI MiS

Jilly Kevo

Universität Bonn

Dawid Kielak

University of Oxford

Clarence Kineider

Max Planck Institute

Steffen Kionke

FernUniversität in Hagen

Klaus Kröncke

KTH Stockholm

Josua Kugler

Leipzig University

Laura Lankers

MPI MIS

Gye-Seon Lee

Seoul National University

David Lenze

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

Alexandra Linde

Universität Augsburg

Florian Litzinger

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

Alexander Lytchak

KIT

Elena Mäder-Baumdicker

Technische Universität Darmstadt

Kathryn Mann

Cornell University

Tim Maruhn

Universität Leipzig

Claudio Meneses

Mathematisches Seminar, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Thomas Mettler

UniDistance Suisse

Jan Metzger

Universität Potsdam

Benedikt Miethke

Universität Leipzig

Juliano Morimoto

University of Aberdeen

Albert Much

University of Leipzig

Felix Physiker

University of Greifswald

Annachiara Piubello

University of Copehagen

Anke Pohl

Universität Bremen

Sachchidanand Prasad

Göttingen University

José Pedro Quintanilha

Universität Heidelberg

Hans-Bert Rademacher

Universität Leipzig

Charles Reid

Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik in der Naturwissenschaft

Jonah Reuß

University of Freiburg

Erfan Rezaei

Leibniz Universität Hannover

Alberto Richtsfeld

Stockholm Universitet

Max Riestenberg

MPI MiS

Rebecca Roero

University of Potsdam

Vasilii Rogov

MPI MiS Leipzig

Anna Roig Sanchis

MPI MiS

Lennart Ronge

Universität Potsdam

Anna Sancassani

University of Tübingen

Álvaro Sánchez Hernández

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

Franz Schels

Leipzig University

Thomas Schick

Universität Göttingen

Lothar Schiemanowski

Uni Kiel

Oliver Schnürer

Universität Konstanz

Lukas Schönlinner

Universität Augsburg

Uwe Semmelmann

Universität Stuttgart

Daniele Semola

University of Vienna

Giada Serafini

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Jiajun Shi

MPI MiS

Miles Simon

Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

Leander Stecker

Universität Leipzig

Maximilian Stegemeyer

Universität Freiburg

Christoph Alexander Stephan

Universität Potsdam

Karl-Theodor Sturm

University of Bonn

Grigalius Taujanskas

University of Cambridge

Marie Trin

MPI MIS Leipzig

Konstantinos Tsouvalas

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Boris Vertman

University of Oldenburg

Priyamvada Prasanna Vishwamitra

OVGU Magdeburg

Max von Renesse

Universität Leipzig

Hartmut Weiß

CAU Kiel

Michael Wiemeler

Universität Münster

Anna Wienhard

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Burkhard Wilking

University of Münster

Stefan Witzel

JLU Gießen

Markus Wolff

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Christopher Wulff

Universität Augsburg

Dennis Wulle

Universität Münster

Zoe Wyatt

University of Cambridge

Jochen Zahn

ITP

Masoumeh Zarei

University of Hamburg

Rudolf Zeidler

University of Potsdam

Paul Zellhofer

CAU Kiel

Vito Felice Zenobi

INdAM (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica)

Organizers

Christian Bär

Potsdam University

Bernhard Hanke

Augsburg University

Anna Wienhard

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Burkhard Wilking

University of Münster

Administrative Contact

Antje Vandenberg

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Contact via Mail

Alexandra Linde

Augsburg University Contact via Mail