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Prospects in Geometry 1996

MPI für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften Leipzig

A3 01 (Sophus-Lie room)

conference

21.11.96 23.11.96

Prospects in Geometry 1996

A conference dinner is planned on Friday night for which advanced reservations are needed. In particular cases we can also try to find some financial support.
The conference is also supported by the Zentrum für höhere Studien der Universität Leipzig.

Program

09:30 - 10:30	S. Stolz (Bonn) A Conjecture concerning positive Ricci curvature and the Witten genus
11:00 - 12:00	B. Leeb (Bonn) Quasi-isometric rigidity of Euclidean buildings (joint work with Bruce Kleiner)
14:00 - 15:00	P. Pansu (Orsay) Matsushima's and Garland's vanishing theorems and property T
15:30 - 16:30	W. Ballmann (Bonn) Property T for goups acting on complexes
17:00 - 17:45	S. Gallot (Lyon) Real Schwarz Lemma and applications
17:45 - 18:30	G. Besson (Grenoble), G. Courtis Around the Milnor-Wood inequalities

09:30 - 10:30	K. Grove (Aarhus) Pinching versus recognition problems in Riemannian geometry
11:00 - 12:00	U. Abresch (Bochum) Compact manifolds of positive curvature
14:00 - 15:00	V. Schroeder (Zürich) Metric spaces with curvature bounds and extensions of Lipschitz maps
15:30 - 16:30	Victor Bangert (Freiburg) Minimal laminations and minimizing normal currents
17:00 - 18:00	A. Fathi (Lyon) A weak KAM theorem in Lagrangian dynamics

09:00 - 10:00	D. Salomon (Warwick) Seiberg-Witten equations and symplectic fixed points
10:30 - 11:30	Helmut Hofer (Zürich) Reeb dynamics on tight three-spheres
13:00 - 14:00	Mikhail Gromov (Bures-surYvette) Title to be announced
14:30 - 15:30	J. Lohkamp (Zürich) Squeezing dispersion

Prospects in Geometry 1996

Program

Organizers

Jürgen Jost

Hans-Bert Rademacher