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A3 01 (Sophus-Lie room)

conference

20.11.97 22.11.97

Prospects in Geometry 1997

The conference is also supported by the Zentrum für höhere Studien der Universität Leipzig.

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

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

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