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Events
Prospects in Geometry 2002

MPI für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften Leipzig

G3 10 (Lecture hall)

conference

28.11.02 30.11.02

Prospects in Geometry 2002

Speakers

Alberto Abbondandolo

Pisa

Denis Auroux

Palaiseau

Klaus Ecker

Berlin

Emmanuel Giroux

Lyon

Albrecht Klemm

Berlin

Jan Louis

Halle

Paul Seidel

London

Vladimir Soucek

Prag

Peter Stadler

Leipzig

Christian van Enckevort

Claire Voisin

Burkhard Wilking

Münster

Günther Ziegler

Berlin

Program

09:30 - 10:30	Günther Ziegler (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) f-vectors of 3-spheres and 4-polytopes
11:00 - 12:00	Peter Stadler (Universität Leipzig, Germany) Geometry of Fitness Landscapes
15:00 - 16:00	Burkhard Wilking (Universität Münster, Germany) Group actions on positively curved manifolds
16:30 - 17:30	Klaus Ecker (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Nonlinear Diffusion Equations in Geometry

09:00 - 10:00	Jan Louis (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Mirror Symmetry in the Presence of Background Fluxes and Manifolds with SU(3)-Structure
10:00 - 11:30	Albrecht Klemm (Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany) Open topological strings
12:00 - 13:00	Vladimir Soucek (Karls Universität Prag, Czech Republic) Invariant differential operators in conformal, quaternionic and CR geometries
15:00 - 16:00	Christian van Enckevort (Universität Mainz) New Insights into Mirror Symmetry on Tori
16:30 - 17:30	Claire Voisin (Université Paris 6 Pierre at Marie Curie) Hodge classes on Kaehler manifolds

09:30 - 10:30	Emmanuel Giroux (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France) Open Book Decompositions for Contact Manifolds
11:00 - 12:00	Paul Seidel (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) Some remarks on mirror symmetry for the quartic surface
13:30 - 14:30	Denis Auroux (Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau, France) Singular plane curves and symplectic manifolds
15:00 - 16:00	Alberto Abbondandolo (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy) A Morse complex for Lorentzian geodesics

Prospects in Geometry 2002

Speakers

Alberto Abbondandolo

Denis Auroux

Klaus Ecker

Emmanuel Giroux

Albrecht Klemm

Jan Louis

Paul Seidel

Vladimir Soucek

Peter Stadler

Christian van Enckevort

Claire Voisin

Burkhard Wilking

Günther Ziegler

Program

Organizers

Jürgen Jost

Hans-Bert Rademacher

Matthias Schwarz

Administrative Contact

Antje Vandenberg