Kickoff Meeting of the DFG priority programme "Geometry at Infinity"

Priority Programme "Geometry at Infinity"


Kickoff Meeting



Thursday, November 9:

Audi Max
  12:30 
Welcome
  12:45 - 14:15   Matthias Keller (Potsdam)
Boundaries, Greens formulae and harmonic functions for graphs and Dirichlet spaces
Alexander Lytchak (Köln), Stephan Stadler (München)
Minimal surfaces in metric spaces
Fernando Galaz (Karlsruhe), Martin Kerin (Münster)
Topological and equivariant rigidity in the presence of lower curvature bounds
   Mauricio Bustamante (Augsburg)
Spaces and Moduli Spaces of Riemannian Metrics with Curvature Bounds on compact and non-compact Manifolds
   Thomas Schick (Göttingen)
Diffeomorphisms and the topology of positive curvature
   Markus Upmeier (Augsburg)
Gerbes in renormalization and quantization of infinite-dimensional moduli spaces
  14:15 - 14:45   Coffee break
  14:45 - 16:15  
Holger Kammeyer, Roman Sauer (Karlsruhe)
Analytic L2-invariants of non-positively curved spaces
   Dawid Kielak (Bielefeld)
Parabolics and invariants
   Petra Schwer (Karlsruhe)
Compactifications and Local-to-Global Structure for Bruhat-Tits-Buildings
   Vadim Alekseev, Andreas Thom (Dresden)
Asymptotic geometry of sofic groups and manifolds
   Andreas Ott (Heidelberg)
Invariants and boundaries of spaces
  
  16:15 - 16:45   Coffee break
  16:45 - 17:00   Presentation of new SPP web site
  17:00 - 18:30   Daniele Alessandrini, Gyeseon Lee (Heidelberg)
Hitchin components for orbifolds
   Sourav Ghosh (Heidelberg)
Anosov representations and Margulis spacetimes
   Federica Fanoni (Heidelberg)
Rigidity, deformations and limits of maximal representations
   Thomas Mettler (Frankfurt)
Projective surfaces, Segre structures and the Hitchin component for PSL(n,R)
   Hartmut Weiss (Kiel), Jan Swoboda (München)
Asymptotic geometry of the Higgs bundles moduli space
   Roger Bielawski (Hannover)
Asymptotic geometry of moduli spaces of curves
  19:30 -  Dinner


Friday, November 10:

Audi Max
   9:00  -  10:30   Klaus Kröncke (Hamburg)
Stability and instability of Einstein manifolds with prescribed asymptotic geometry
   Oliver Schnürer (Konstanz)
Curvature flows without singularities
   Miles Simon (Magdeburg)
Solutions to Ricci flow whose scalar curvature is bounded in Lp
   Nikolaos Roidos (Hannover)
Nonlinear evolution equations on singular manifolds
   Boris Vertman (Oldenburg)
Spectral geometry, index theory and geometric flows on singular spaces
   Sara Azzali (Potsdam), Sebastian Goette (Freiburg)
Secondary invariants for foliations
  10:30 - 11:15   Coffee Break
  11:15 - 12:45   Wolfram Bauer (Hannover)
Spectral Analysis of Sub-Riemannian Structures
   Daniel Grieser (Oldenburg)
Analysis on spaces with fibred cusps
   Bernd Ammann (Regensburg), Nadine Große (Freiburg)
Geometric operators on a class of manifolds with bounded geometry
   Alexander Engel (Regensburg), Christopher Wulff (Göttingen)
Duality and the coarse assembly map
   Lashi Bandara (Potsdam)
Index theory on Lorentzian manifolds
  13:00 - 14:00   Lunch
  14:00 - 15:00   Ernst Kuwert, Guofang Wang (Freiburg)
Willmore functional and Lagrangian surfaces
   Lynn Heller (Hannover)
Minimizer of the Willmore energy with prescribed rectangular conformal class
   Elena Mäder-Baumdicker (Karlsruhe)
The Willmore energy of degenerating surfaces and singularities of geometric flows
Existence, regularity and uniqueness results of geometric variational problems
  
  15:00  -  15:30   Discussion
  15:30   End of kickoff meeting