Conference Schedule

Talks will be scheduled from the morning of Monday (July 22) through the afternoon of Friday (July 26) with a bicycle tour on Wednesday afternoon and a party on Friday evening. Each invited participant who would like to talk is welcome to submit a suggestion.

All talks will be given in lecture room M2 of the lecture hall building (building #1 on the local map).

Monday, July 22:

Room M2

8:00 - 9:20	Registration (Room SR 0, Einsteinstr 62)
9:20 - 9:30	Opening
9:30 - 10:30	Richard Bamler (Stanford), There are finitely many surgeries in Perelman's Ricci flow
10:40 - 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15	Alexander Lytchak (Köln), Riemannian foliations on spaces with very simple or no topology
12:15 - 14:15	Lunch break/registration (Room 411, Einsteinstr 62)
14:15 - 15:15	Hans-Joachim Hein (Imperial), Asymptotically cylindrical Calabi-Yau manifolds
15:15 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30	Nicola Gigli (Nice), Analytic tools for the study of spaces with Ricci curvature bounded from below.

Tuesday, July 23:

Room M2

9:30 - 10:30	Robert Haslhofer (Courant), Mean curvature flow of mean convex hypersurfaces
10:30 - 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15	Michael Wiemeler (Karlsruhe), Non-negatively curved torus manifolds
12:15 - 14:15	Lunch break
14:15 - 15:15	Viktor Schroeder (Zürich), Moebius characterizations of the boundaries of complex hyperbolic spaces
15:15 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30	Manuel Amann (Karlsruhe), Topological properties of positively curved manifolds with symmetry

Wednesday, July 24:

Room M2

9:30 - 10:30	Mark Walsh (Wichita State), Loop spaces, operads and positive scalar curvature
10:30 - 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15	John Lott (Berkeley), Collapsing with a lower bound on the curvature operator
12:15 - 13:30	Lunch break
13:30	Bicycle trip

Thursday, July 25:

Room M2

9:30 - 10:30	Valentino Tosatti (Northwestern), Collapsing of Ricci-flat Calabi-Yau manifolds
10:30 - 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15	Conrad Plaut (Tennessee), Some applications of Discrete Homotopy Theory
12:15 - 14:15	Lunch break
14:15 - 15:15	Brett Kotschwar (Arizona State), Uniqueness of asymptotically conical shrinking Ricci solitons
15:15 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30	Wolfgang Ziller (University of Pennsylvania) Positively curved submanifolds of euclidean space

Friday, July 26:

Room M2

9:30 - 10:10	Wolfgang Spindeler (Münster), A decomposition theorem for nonnegatively curved fixed point homogenous manifolds
10:20 - 11:00	John Harvey (Notre Dame), Positively curved Alexandrov spaces of maximal symmetry rank
11:00 - 11:35	Coffee break
11:35 - 12:15	Sebastian Hoelzel (Münster), Surgery stable curvature conditions
12:15 - 14:15	Lunch break
14:15 - 15:15	Catherine Searle (Oregon State), Lifting positive Ricci curvature
15:15 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30	Anton Petrunin (Pennsylvania State), Number of collisions of n balls on the infinite billiard table after Burago--Ferleger--Kononenko
19:00	Conference party

The coffee breaks will be on the ground floor of the math building.

The dinner party on Friday evening will take place at Wolfgang Meyer's home.

For the party as well as the bicycle tour accompanying persons are welcome to attend.
People who want to participate in the tour and need a bicycle should let us know if they have not already done so.