Mini-Workshop
CONFORMAL STRUCTURES AND ODEs

Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center,
Warsaw, 16–18 September, 2010

PROGRAMME

Abstracts

Thursday, September 16
10:00 AMPaul Tod (Oxford): Three-dimensional Einstein-Weyl Geometry
11:10 AMCoffee break
11:30 AMMaciej Dunajski (Cambridge and IMPAN): G2 structures, rational curves, and ODEs
LUNCH BREAK
3:00 PMGeorge Sparling (Pittsburgh): Causal Geometries
4:20 PMWojciech Krynski (IMPAN and Vienna): Affine contact equivalence of ODEs and Veronese webs

 

Friday, September 17
10:00 AMPaul Tod (Oxford): Penrose's Conformally Cyclic Cosmology and Weyl Curvature Hypothesis
11:10 AMCoffee break
11:30 AMJacek Jezierski (Warsaw University): On conformal Yano-Killing tensors
LUNCH BREAK
3:00 PMBoris Doubrov (Minsk): Conformal geometries associated with 3-dimensional vector distributions
4:20 PMBronislaw Jakubczyk (IMPAN): Characteristic cones of non-integrable distributions

 

Saturday, September 18
10:30 AMJerzy Lewandowski (Warsaw): Spin-networks and spin-foams gadgets of Loop Quantum Gravity