SPP2026- Geometry at Infinity: April 1 - April 5, 2019

General Information: 

The conference starts on Monday, 1st April at 11 am with registration at the foyer of the Schloss followed by the first plenary talk in the afternoon.

The plenary talks are scheduled for Monday afternoon, and from Tuesday to Friday morning.   These talks will take place in lecture room S8 on the first floor of the Schloss of the University of Münster ( https://www.google.de/maps/@51.9636409,7.6130708,15z ).


Parallel sessions are planned for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon at the Mathematical Institute.
Equipment of the respective lecture rooms:

  • 203: Projector and whiteboard, (SRZ Building, Orléansring 12)
  • 204: Projector and whiteboard, (SRZ Building, Orléansring 12)
  • 205: Projector and blackboard, (SRZ Building, Orléansring 12)
  • SR1 c: Projector and blackboard, (Mathematical Building, Einsteinstr. 62)
  • SR 4: Projector and blackboard, (Mathematical Building, Einsteinstr. 62, 4th floor)


Program, revised 03.04.2019

General overview

Monday:

11:00 Registration with coffee and refreshments: Schloss, Foyer
12: 00 Lunch
14:00 Opening address
14:30 John Lott: Long-time behavior in geometric flows
15:30 Coffee break: Schlossgarten Café
17:00 Ailana Fraser: Sharp estimates for higher eigenvalues on surfaces
18:00 Welcome reception: Schloss, Foyer

Tuesday:

9:30 Nathalie Wahl: Strings on manifolds
10:30 Coffee break: Schloss, Foyer
11:00 Oscar Randal-Williams: Cohomology of Torelli groups
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Section talks

Wednesday:

9:30 Francoise Dal'Bo: Growth of groups acting by isometries and applications
10:30 Coffee break: Schlossgarten Café
11:00 Jeffrey Danciger: Affine geometry and the Auslander conjecture
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Section talks

Thursday:

9:30 András Vasy: The stability of Kerr-de Sitter space and global analysis
10:30 Coffee break: Schlossgarten Café
11:00 Alexander Strohmaier: Index theorems and hyperbolic evolution equations
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Section talks
19:00 Conference Dinner: Schlossgarten Café

Friday:

9:30 Guoliang Yu: The Novikov conjecture, the group of volume preserving diffeomorphisms, and Hilbert-Hadamard spaces
10:30 Coffee break: Schloss, Foyer
11:00 Anne Thomas: Large-scale geometry of right-angled Coxeter groups
12:00 Lunch, end of conference