5. Geometry

Local and global differential geometry. Applications of PDE to geometric problems including harmonic maps, minimal submanifolds and flows on the space of metrics. Geometric structures on manifolds. Riemannian and metric geometry. Geometric aspects of group theory. Symplectic and contact manifolds. Convex geometry. Discrete geometry. Geometric rigidity.

INVITED SPEAKERS


Simon A. Brendle    
Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Elliptic and parabolic problems in conformal geometry
Tuesday, August 29, 15:00-15:45
 
Ko Honda     
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
The topology and geometry of contact structures in dimension three
Wednesday, August 30, 16:00-16:45

Michael Kapovich
     
University of California, Davis, USA
Generalized triangle inequalities and their applications
Thursday, August 24, 15:00-15:45

Bruce Kleiner
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
The asymptotic geometry of negatively curved spaces: uniformization, geometrization and rigidity
Thursday, August 24, 16:00-16:45

François Lalonde     
Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Lagrangian submanifolds: from the local model to the cluster complex
Wednesday, August 30, 17:00-17:45

Xiaobo Liu    
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA
Gromov-Witten invariants and moduli spaces of curves
Saturday, August 26, 15:00-15:45

Toshiki Mabuchi      
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Extremal metrics and stabilities on polarized manifolds
Tuesday, August 29, 17:00-17:45

Grigory Mikhalkin
    
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Tropical geometry and its applications
Friday, August 25, 15:00-15:45

William P. Minicozzi 
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Embedded minimal surfaces
Monday, August 28, 15:00-15:45

Yong-Geun Oh        
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
and
Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS),Seoul, Korea
Floer homology in symplectic geometry and in mirror symmetry
Saturday, August 26, 16:00-16:45

Antonio Ros  
Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Minimal surfaces and isoperimetric problems
Monday, August 28, 16:00-16:45

Chuu-Lian Terng     
University of California, Irvine, USA
Applications of loop group factorization to geometric soliton equations
Friday, August 25, 16:00-16:45

Burkhard Wilking      
Universität Münster, Münster, Germany 
Manifolds with positive curvature operators are space forms
Tuesday, August 29, 16:00-16:45