Programme

Monday, April 6
9:30-9:45 Friedrich Hirzebruch
9:45-10:15 Shing-Tung Yau
10:15-10:45 Czesław Olech
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00 Mark A. Stern - Geometry of stable Yang-Mills connections
12:15-13:00 Duong Hong Phong - Recent advances in superstring perturbation theory
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-15:45 Kang Zuo - Yau's Form of Schwarz Lemma and Arakelov Inequality on Moduli Spaces of Projective Manifolds
16:00-16:45 Mu-Tao Wang - Isometric embeddings of surfaces and quasilocal gravitational energy (lecture slides)
17:00-17:45 G. W. Gibbons - Two problems in General Relativity (lecture slides)
18:30 Welcome party (in the Institute building)
Tuesday, April 7
9:00-9:45 Huai-Dong Cao - Geometry of gradient shrinking Ricci solutions (lecture slides)
10:00-10:45 Albrecht O. Klemm - Integrability in Topological String Theory on Calabi-Yau Manifolds (lecture slides)
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00 John Coates - L-functions and arithmetic
12:15-13:00 Piotr Chru¶ciel - The distant n-body problem in general relativit
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-15:45 Zbigniew Błocki - On the space of Kähler metrics
16:00-16:45 Fabrizio Catanese - Algebraic Surfaces with geometric genus 0, their fundamental groups and their moduli spaces
17:00-17:45 Jurgen Jost - Dirac-harmonic maps: Mathematical aspects of the nonlinear supersymmetric sigma model
Wednesday, April 8
9:00-9:45 Mihalis Dafermos - Boundedness and decay for the wave equation on Kerr and other axisymmetric stationary black hole backgrounds (lecutre slides)
10:00-10:45 Le Dung Trang - Topology of algebraic curve singularities
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00 Naichung Conan Leung - Geometry of special holonomy (lecture slides)
12:15-13:00 Udo Simon - Codazzi-equivalent Riemannian metrics (abstract)
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-15:45 Sławomir Kołodziej - Some generalizations of the Calabi-Yau theorem (abstract)
16:00-16:45 Mike Scherfner - Isoparametric Hypersurfaces in Sn+1: The Chern Conjecture (lecture slides)
17:00-17:45 Mario Micallef - Constant mean curvature surfaces with prescribed ideal boundary in negatively curved 3-manifolds (lecture slides)